Rwanda Tour Packages for French Travellers
Gorilles des montagnes, forêts tropicales, plaines et lacs — Rwanda is one of only four countries in the world where French is an official language spoken in a mountain gorilla safari destination, giving French travellers a linguistic ease unavailable anywhere else in East Africa's primate trekking circuit.
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A Francophone Gateway to East Africa's Rarest Encounter
Le pays des mille collines — the Land of a Thousand Hills — is compact, immaculately organised, extraordinarily safe, and home to one of the most powerful wildlife encounters available anywhere on earth: tracking mountain gorillas in the ancient volcanic forests of Volcanoes National Park. French is one of Rwanda's four official languages alongside Kinyarwanda, English, and Swahili — a genuine linguistic advantage no other African gorilla trekking destination offers.
Top 8 Rwanda Tour Packages 2026
Built Specifically for French Travellers
Each package below is presented with the French traveller's specific priorities in mind — cultural depth, wildlife quality, photographic opportunity, comfort level, and value for the number of days away.
Best Seller
Rwanda Gorillas & Chimp Tour — the Express Primate Safari
Combines a mountain gorilla trek in Volcanoes National Park with chimpanzee tracking in Nyungwe Forest — the most popular entry-level package for French travellers visiting for the first time, fitting within a long weekend plus two days of leave.
- Mountain gorilla trek + chimpanzee tracking
- Cultural visit to a local craft cooperative
- 300+ bird species in Nyungwe Forest
Gorilla & Golden Monkey Trekking — Double Primates in the Volcanoes
Keeps you in the Volcanoes National Park region for both encounters — a gorilla trek plus golden monkey tracking in the park's bamboo forest zone, a brilliantly coloured endemic primate found only in the Virunga and Bwindi highlands.
- Mountain gorilla trek
- Golden monkey tracking (1–3 hours, lower elevation)
- No additional travel time to Nyungwe required
Intensive
Double Gorilla Trekking — the Ultimate Primate Experience
Two consecutive gorilla trekking permits placing you with two different mountain gorilla families on back-to-back mornings — the most gorilla-intensive Rwanda package available, ideal for conservation photographers and documentary enthusiasts.
- Two gorilla families, two consecutive days
- Different elevations and social dynamics each time
- Genuine behavioural and photographic depth
Gorillas & Mount Bisoke Hike — Trekking Plus a Volcano Ascent
Combines gorilla trekking with an ascent of Mount Bisoke, one of the Virunga chain's eight volcanoes, leading through dense afromontane forest to a crater lake at 3,711 metres — genuinely rewarding for French travellers with an active Alps or Pyrénées hiking tradition.
- Mountain gorilla trek
- Mount Bisoke summit hike (4–6 hours)
- Crater lake views across the Virunga chain
Couples
Gorillas & Lake Kivu Safari — Wildlife and Relaxation Combined
Rwanda's answer to the Côte d'Azur in miniature — tea-plantation hillsides, exceptionally clean bilharzia-free water, and relaxed lakeside towns following the physical intensity of the gorilla trek. Genuinely well-balanced for French honeymooners and couples.
- Mountain gorilla trek
- Lake Kivu — kayaking, tea factories, island boat trips
- Gisenyi or Kibuye lakeside towns
Volcanoes & Akagera — Gorillas and the Big Five in One Package
Rwanda's most compact complete-wildlife package — a gorilla trek plus Big Five game drives in Akagera National Park, home to lions, elephants, hippos, giraffes, and over 500 bird species, on Rwanda's eastern border.
- Mountain gorilla trek
- Akagera Big Five game drives
- Two completely different park ecosystems in 3 days
Eco-Travel
Nyungwe Chimps & Canopy Walk — Forest Immersion
Chimpanzee tracking plus a walk across the suspended canopy walkway 60 metres above the forest floor, in one of Africa's largest and most ancient montane rainforests — over 1,000 plant species, 13 primates, and 310 bird species including 29 Albertine Rift endemics.
- Chimpanzee tracking in Nyungwe Forest
- Canopy walkway at treetop level
- 29 Albertine Rift endemic bird species
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Rwanda Safari Holiday — the Complete French Experience
Connects all of Rwanda's major experiences — gorilla trekking, Akagera's Big Five, Nyungwe Forest, Lake Kivu, and Kigali's cultural immersion — in a logical, well-paced routing. The trip French travellers return home having genuinely understood the country.
- Full Rwanda circuit: gorillas, Big Five, forest, lake
- Kigali Genocide Memorial
- Comprehensive without feeling rushed
