Congo River – Lake Tumba and Jungle Rivers TP 8 Mbandaka area 14 – days 2025

Price conditions for 2025

  1. 1 pax : 6.494,- USD
  2. 2 pax : 4.664,- USD per person
  3. 3 pax : 3.987,- USD per person
  4. 4 pax : 3.649,- USD per person

Single supplement: 238,- USD

Maximum 4 passengers in 1 canoe

Included:

  1. - All transfers as mentioned in the program
  2. - Hotel in Kinshasa B&B
  3. - “Full board” in the interior
  4. - Crew: Sailor, guide, security guard, cook, rowers
  5. - 2 litres bottled water a day in the jungle
  6. - Airport pick up and drop off in Kinshasa
  7. - Tents
  8. - All taxes

Not included:

  1. - Visa
  2. - International flight
  3. - Other drinks
  4. - Lunch and dinner in Kinshasa and Mbandaka

PROGRAM

Dugout canoe
No Day TP 8 Congo River - Lake Tumba out of Mbandaka Meals Transport Overnight
Day 1 Monday Arrival Kinshasa airport - hotel - briefing x,x,x Car Hotel Sultani 3*
Day 2 Tuesday Kinshasa visit y compris Bonobo sanctuary B,x,x Car Hotel Sultani 3*
Day 3 Wednesday Transfer to Mbandaka B,x,x Air Hotel Ndongolo
Day 4 Thursday Transfer to Mbandaka B,x,x Air Hotel Ndongolo
Day 5 Thursday Departure down streams the Congo River B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
Day 3 29 7.138 $ TP3 Aug 01/Aug 29 535 $
Day 5 Friday Departure down streams the Congo River B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
Day 6 Saturday Departure down streams the Congo River B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
Day 7 Sunday Arrival IRES - a flora research centre B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
>Day 8 Monday IRES visit B,L,D Tents
Day 9 Tuesday Transfer Ikoko on the opposite side of Lake Tumba B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
Day 10 Wednesday Up to Bokoté or Saké B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
Day 11 Thursday Up river to Samba B,L,D Dugout canoe Tents
Day 12 Friday Road transfer Samba to Mbandaka B,L,x Car Hotel Ndongolo
Day 13 Saturday Return to Kinshasa B,x,x Air Hotel Sultani 3*
Day 14 Sunday OUT B,x,x Car

Day 1: Hotel Sultani on B&B

Arrival in Kinshasa airport, protocol, transfer to the hotel and briefing

Day 2: Hotel Sultani on B&B

After breakfast, we start with the Bonobo sanctuary about 1,5 hours, with all the traffic jams, out of the city. Arrival at around 10 h. and introduction + visit will take normally until noon. Back to the city for a fast lunch if required – Mausoleum of former President Laurant Kabila ( build by North Koreans ) – visit of the art market and transfer to the Kinsuka rapids before the sun goes down.

Day 3: Transfer airport and flight to Mbandaka – Hotel on the border of the Congo River on B&B.

At arrival in Mbandaka, first check in in the hotel. Depending on arrival time maybe a fast visit of the town. Dinner in hotel

Day 4, 5,6,7: On the river and overnight in tents

We travel by dugout canoe, without engines, without noise, without pollution, on the mighty Congo River till Irebo where we enter Lake Tumba. We travel like the local population with social contact on the road with fishermen, people transporting their goods and people from the villages. We overnight in villages and fishermen encampments and prepare our diner with fresh fish and/or poultry which we can buy at the local population during the trip.

Day 8: Tents, full board

We visit the reserve of IRES, take a look of what’s still existing from the former infrastructure, visit the Bantu and Pygmy village and we’ll have a guided night walk into the forest.

Day 9: Tents, full board

We continue our trip by canoe to the village of Ikoko at the border of the other side of the lake. Camp and overnight.

Day 10: Tents, full board

This day, we go further upstream to the village of Bokote or Nkake. The river becomes smaller and we enter slowly into the rainforest. Camp and overnight Our helpers will row till the village of Samba. This part of the trip is also with dense rainforest and often, you can’t see the sky anymore. Also here, we buy our food locally and we pass the night in the village, making our camp where the Chief allows us. For breakfast, we have bread with jam, cheese spread and sometimes: eggs. We buy all local fruit we can find for lunch and for diner, we have Congolese cuisine. On the road, we find fresh fish, chicken, duck and goat. We try the local vegetables and eat it with rice.

Day 12 Hotel

The car, coming from Mbandaka, will pick us up and bring us back to the city. We’ll use the rest of the day to discover the town of Mbandaka and visit also the Catholic mission, which is well conserved so far.

Day 13: Hotel Sultani 3* on B&B

Transfer to the airport and flight to Kinshasa, hotel.

Day 14:

This is a difficult day to organise a fixed program. All depends on the wishes of our visitors and outgoing flight.