Rwanda Chimpanzee and Canopy Walk Safari, Nyungwe Forest

Your driver-guide meets you at Kigali International Airport for the drive south — the longest transfer on this itinerary, roughly five to six hours, through Rwanda’s terraced hill country and past Huye, the country’s old colonial university town, before climbing into Nyungwe’s cooler, wetter montane rainforest. Arrival by early evening.

An early wake-up, around 4:30–5am, for the drive to the trailhead and briefing before setting off after a habituated chimpanzee community — considerably more demanding than gorilla trekking given Nyungwe’s steep elevation changes, though your guide paces the walk to the group. Sightings remain reliable even with the terrain, and the reward is genuinely different from Bwindi or Kibale: this is one of the oldest rainforests in Africa, with a canopy and understorey that feel noticeably wilder.

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Africa’s highest canopy walkway, a suspended steel bridge roughly 70 metres above the forest floor strung between three viewing platforms, with views out across the canopy to the Albertine Rift beyond. The afternoon shifts to a gentler guided nature walk on one of Nyungwe’s established forest trails, good for birding and orchids without the previous day’s exertion.

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The drive back north to Kigali, timed against your onward international flight, with a lunch stop en route.