13 DAYS SAFARI IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Day1: Arrival in Kinshasa
After your arrival in Kinshasa, your professional tour guide will pick at Ndjili International Airport and transfer to the hotel. Kinshasa is the capital city of Democratic Republic of Congo and the fastest growing city in Africa with almost 200 millions of people. After your arrival at the hotel, your driver guide will introduce you the city Kinshasa city and the country democratic republic of Congo then after you have dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Game drive in the park of Nsele.
The Nsele valley park is an animal park in the Democratic Republic of Congo located in a few minutes’ drive from Ndjili International Airport in the rural community of Nsele in Kinshasa on the road to Mbanzale covering 20,000 hectares. It was created by the president Joseph Kabila and his wife Olive Lembe Dit Sifa.
You will have a fresh and pure air in the park, more animals such as zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, impalas, lions, crocodiles, monitor lizards and rhinoceroses.
The park offers a number of activities such as game drives, horse riding, zip lining, kayak, pedal boat Hiking, cycle tourism mountain biking, swimming, mini golf playground, team building and catering.
Day 3: kisantu Botanical Garden
You will wake up early in the morning depart for Zongo waterfalls with in 3hours where you will also have a stopover at Kisantu botanical garden created since 1892 by the catholic missionary. The garden is made up of plants from all over the parts of Democratic Republic of Congo and other tropical countries. The garden contains more than 4000 species including the collection of palm trees with 92 different varieties and other trees and flowers and later you will proceed to Zongo.
Day 4: Zongo waterfall
Zongo waterfalls are located on the inkisi river in Central Congo province with a height of 65m. the fall offers you a spectacular land scape with very aquatic vegetation. The discharge of waterfalling on the rock create a natural shower. After the visit, you will proceed to the village of Mbanza Ngungu where you will visit the old train with the abandoned wagons and old residences of the former rulers.
Day 5: Dimber cave
Dimber cave is located in a few kilometres from the town centre Mbanza Ngungu. The cave has a prehistoric workshop very well preserved with a distance of more than a kilometre long. The visit takes around an hour and no body reached the end of this curious caves. After the visit you will proceed back at the hotel for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Return to Kinshasa
You will wake up in the morning for breakfast, your driver guide will drive you to Kinshasa, visit National Museum. In the afternoon, you will meet the mystical sapeurs around Victoire square and listed to some suku music and you have dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Flight to Goma
Early in the morning, the driver will pick you to Ndjili international and fly to Goma. After your arrival you will transfer to your hotel. Goma is a city of Democratic Republic of Congo with almost 2m people.
Day 8: Transfer to Bukavu
You will wake up in the morning, take your breakfast then after you transfer to Bukavu. Bukavu is a city in democratic republic of Congo located in the south Kivu province where you will do the boat cruise for 3 hours, transfer to Lwiro sanctuary for primates visit. After you proceed to Tshivanga for relaxation and overnight.
Day 9: Gorilla habituation in Kahuzi Biega
You will wake up early in the morning after the breakfast you head for a memorable experience of Gorilla habituation. The gorilla habituation is a process where Gorillas are trained to live closer to people while they are doing their day to day lives. The experience requires more endurance since it takes more time with gorilla family. Just know that you will never regret the experience.
Day 10: Tchegera Island
You will wake up in the morning for breakfast then you drive to Bukavu where you will do boat cruise back to Goma and transfer to Tchegera island for relaxation and overnight.
Day 11: Leisure and exploration of the surroundings of Tchegera island
After the morning breakfast, you have a leisure time on the island admiring a spectacular view of two active volcano Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira while doing some Kayaking and swimming. In the afternoon you will go for boat cruise exploring the surroundings of the island and after you return back to the island for relaxing and overnight.
Day 12: Goma city tour
After a warm breakfast, boat cruise to Goma where you will a city tour and its history and later drive to the hotel for relaxation dinner and overnight.
Day 13: Transfer to the Goma Airport for the return flight back home
This day will mark the end of the trip by travelling back at Goma Airport for your return flight back home.
SAFARI INCLUSIONS