Nyungwe Top View Hotel is a medium-range three-star hotel, the only one with that name in the Gisakura core, while the others are simply guest homes, lodges, or hostels. It is located in Rwanda’s Western Province, in the Nyamasheke district, with Gisakura town just a few kilometers from Kamembe airport in Rusizi district.
The hotel is located on top of a hill, approximately 500 metres from the main route connecting Gisakura to Rusizi or Gisakura to Kigali. Its location allows for spectacular views of the surrounding environment, including the outstanding view of Lake Kivu and its islands, the view of the Nyungwe forest and its mountain range, and the view of the tea estate, the area’s most important cash crop. The motel has rooms ranging from single to family size.
Why should you stay at Nyungwe Top View Hotel?
Only one hotel is located near the Nyungwe forest.
While staying at Neither Top View, you may easily access park activities.
Perfect location with a stunning view.
This is the place to go for chimp tracking.
Aerial View of the Nyungwe Top View Hotel
How to get there:
You can go to the Nyungwe Top View Hotel via air or by car.
Air transport: For a quick trip from Kigali, you can take a domestic aircraft to Kamembe airport, which Rwandair operates daily. It only takes 35 minutes to get to Kamembe Airport from Kigali and then a transfer to Nyungwe. You can book a hotel at Top View Hotel through your operator, which is the better option. It takes 45 minutes to get from Kamembe Airport to the Hotel. Another option is to travel from Kigali to Nyungwe Top View Hotel by helicopter, which will show you why Rwanda is known as the “Land of a Thousand Hills,” as well as the view of Lake Kivu and its islands, the mountains of Nyungwe National Park, and tea fields from above!
You can approach the Nyungwe Top View hotel by road, with two choices available. The first will take you from Kigali through Kamonyi district, Muhanga, Nyanza, which is the basement of the Rwandan cultural and king’s palace museum, and then to Butare, where the ethnographic museum is located, and then through Nyamgabe district in the high mountains and through Nyugwe forest for an hour and a half to Gisakura center, where you will take a small connected tarmac road on your right to the Nyungwe Top View hotel.
The second alternative will take you from Kigali to Kamonyi district, then to Muhanga, and finally to Karongi, a resort town with a greater view of Lake Kivu as the road goes onshore until you reach Nyamasheke area, where the lodge is located. You will arrive in Buhinga center in Nyamasheke, then take the left side of the main road and in five minutes you will be in Gisakura center, where you will need to take a tiny road connecting to the main road on your left side to go to the hotel.
The Nyungwe Top View hotel is accessible from all corners of Rwanda. Rwanda’s roads are asphalt and secure, from public to private transportation, and if you use public transportation, you will be treated like a King/Queen by your selected tour operator, who will handle everything for you.
