Top 7 Adventures Activities to do on Tour in Rwanda highlights a collection of active experiences you can explore across this “Land of a Thousand Hills”. These varied adventures include a wide range of outdoor thrills, nature focused treks, and a dose of culture.
Blessed with a pleasant all-year round equatorial climate, Rwanda is an adventure paradise endowed with towering highland landscapes. The country’s compactness, safety record, green initiative and an excellent infrastructure makes Rwanda a convenient adventure destination.
Below is a collection of adventure activities to tailor in your Rwanda Holiday tour.
Top 7 Adventures Activities to do on Tour in Rwanda
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Trek up-close the Mountain Gorillas at Volcanoes NP
Rwanda’s premier adventure is a trek experience to encounter the bulky mountain gorillas as it forages in its natural rainforest habitats. The trek brings you up-close a family of mountain gorilla family, watching diverse social interactions, human-like attributes – a rare privilege often dubbed a lifetime adventure.
Gorilla trekking experience is offered at Volcanoes National Park located on the northwest corner of Rwanda. This montane park forms the greater Virunga Mountain Ranges, a cross-boundary ecosystem that sprawls the international borderlines of Rwanda, Uganda and the DRC. On each day, a limited number of 8 trekkers are allowed to hike to any of the 15-mountain gorilla families where they spend only one-full hour with these endangered apes.
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Trek up-close the chimpanzee at Nyungwe Forest
A hike up-close the Chimpanzee, man’s closest ape relative in its rainforest home is a heart stopping memorable adventure. Smaller and more agile than the mountain gorillas, chimpanzee are intelligent species living in large communities numbering over 60 individuals. Chimpanzee trekking is offered in Nyungwe Forest, an ancient rain forest located in the southern western region of Rwanda about 4-hrs drive from Kigali the Capital City.
The vast montane rainforest of Nyungwe support 3 habituated chimpanzee communities visited daily. And as with gorillas, trekkers get to spend only one-hour observing the chimpanzee and photography.
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Trek to Golden Monkeys in Volcanoes National Park
Golden monkey trek expereince is the next exciting adventure alongside the gorilla and chimpanzee hikes. Restricted to the Albertine Rift montane ranges, the Golden monkey is an endemic primate that occurs along the bamboo zones at Volcanoes NP. Daily trek expereince to these active monkeys include one-full hour designated for trekkers to observe up-close, watch group social behavior, interactions and photography.
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Hiking
Rwanda, with its towering and highland landscape is a hikers paradise offering excellent opportunities to taste their adrenaline limits. A network of well designated hiking trails explores towering volcanic mountain ranges, ancient rainforest forests and the countryside to reveal breathtaking landscape and a cultural dose.
Rwanda’s top hiking trails include; the Nile-Cong Hiking trail that runs along the scenic shoreline of Lake Kivu, Nyungwe Forest hiking trials, Nyanza trails that add a dose of culture and Volcanoes NP trails.
Elsewhere in Rwanda, hikes are offered ranging from whole family day-trips to multi-day hikes led by handpicked private community guides through humble communities, bustling towns and panoramic countryside.
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Cycling Experience
Rwanda is a cycling nation and a continental leader in cycling tours attracting a wide range of adrenaline thrill seekers. Excellent biking trails traverse Rwanda’s terraced highland landscapes revealing a diversity of cultures, warm and hospitable local population, tea-covered mountain ranges, lush rainforests and bustling towns. Tailored biking trips range from multi-day expeditions to a lazy 2-hr family rides across village trails.
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Kayaking on Lake Kivu
A kayak experience on Lake Kivu offers panoramic scenic views of terraced highlands that line the lake shores and islands. Day kayak tours are tailored to your available time, size of your group and interest with duration ranging from 4-to full day trips. Kayak tours on Lake Kivu can be tailored to include a visit to fishing villages, coffee and tea farms for you to learn of diverse lifestyle along these shorelines.
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Take a Wilderness Walking Tour in Akagera National Park
A walking tour in Akagera National Park offers an exclusive wilderness experience bringing you up-close to iconic Africa’s iconic wildlife on foot! Walking safaris is led by knowledgeable ranger guides that interprets various sounds, calls and tracks across this wilderness while sharing the conservation success story of the entire Akagera National Park.
Wildlife encountered on walking tour in Akagera NP include, Southern White Rhino, Back Rhino, Masai Giraffe, Zebra, Eland and an excellent birdlife. Duration on these walking tours range from 1.5 hours to half-a-day trips.
Featured Adventure Tours in Rwanda
On request our private-led tours in Rwanda can be personalized to include any of the above adventure activities to suit your taste.