On you first day of this tour, you will explore with us one of the safest and cleanest cities in Africa. In the morning, your trip will start with a warm welcome by our tour driver/guides, who will be ready to show you around, just according to your wishes. Later after you take your breakfast you will get transferred to Nyarutarama Lake located near the Kigali Golf Course. It has paths around it which offer excellent birdwatching around the lake, providing a good count of water species. You will be able to see birds like the yellow-billed Duck, Quaco Heron, White-faced Whistling Duck, Hottentot Teal, Red-billed Teal, African Spoonbill, Spur-winged Geese, Little Grebe, Common Moorhen, Hadada Ibis, Black Crake, Black Egret, Cater Egret, and Black-headed Heron among others. Then later you shall proceed a little further to the east of the lake is acacia woodlands that will add to your list with some raptors such as the Mountain Buzzard, and several smaller birds such as Swifts, Martin, Swallow, Sunbirds. After the day depending on your flexibility. After some delicious snacks, your driver/guide will transfer you to Gizosi to visit the Genocide Memorial, a grim reminder of a senseless massacre of innocents lives in 1994. Learn about Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial times to the 1994 genocide and how Rwanda has dealt with that past. Thereafter your driver/guide will lead you back to your hotel or lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

You will set off early morning after breakfast and you will be driven along the bird game tracks in the park with opportunities to see a variety of savanna related bird species. The park is renowned for its great profusion of water birds across the East African region as well as among the unique places to see papyrus endemics. Among the common species to look out for are the beautiful lilac-breasted roller, crested barbet, black headed gonolek, ross’s turaco, heuglin’s robin-chat as well as the grey hornbill among others. Later on, you will have a lunch break and proceed on the searching for other birds in the afternoon and may have an opportunity to spot Northern Brown-throated Weaver, White-Winged Swamp Warbler, Carruthers’s Cisticola, White-collared Olive back, and Grey-crowned Cranes. Another desirable specie you may spot is the Shoebill which is also seen in the park fairly regularly. After this heart saddening tour, you will meet up with your driver/guide and head to your booked lodge for dinner, relaxation and overnight stay.

After breakfast, you will meet up with your driver/guide for a transfer to Mountain Kigali which is the largest hill in the vicinity of Kigali City and has a forest which is a worthy birding spot. You may encounter birds like the African Paradise Flycatcher, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, Southern Black Flycatcher, Red-chested Cuckoo, Green-backed Camaroptera, Thick-billed Seedeater, Tropical Boubou, Northern Puffback, Common Bulbul, Bronze Mannikin, Yellow-fronted Canary. You will have a lunch break after you will be transferred back to your hotel, lodge or you will be dropped off at any place of your inconvenience.

Early breakfast and check-out. Drive back to Kigali. En route, visit the beautiful Lake Kivu, where you may spot waterbirds, meanwhile after the bird experience encounter at lake Kivu we will proceed with the drive to Kigali, arrive in Kigali in the late afternoon. Optional city tour or visit to the Genocide Memorial. Transfer to Kigali International Airport for your departure.