At sight lake Kivu looks like an innocent beautiful small lake. Located along Rwanda’s western border, it is both a prominent food and water source in the country, and is increasingly a tourist hotspot. Business men have rushed to set up hotels along the lake coast to build accommodation for visitors, no doubt lured in […]

Primates in Uganda are among the most social animals, forming pairs or family groups. Uganda has a diversity of primates, unlike any other East African country e.g. gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys. These primates have slower rates of development than other mammals since infants are breastfed by their mothers and rely on them for grooming and […]

Recently there has been a steep and sudden increase in Congo visa fees for Rwanda visitors and other tourists making the Democratic Republic of Congo an even more remote tourism destination. Following recent unsuccessful attempts to enter Rwandan territory by Congolese troops, which met with a resolute response by the Rwandan army and once more […]

The Rwandan tourism sector has managed to collect over $49million from conference tourism and the country is hoping to triple this by the year 2016. “Rwanda is becoming an attraction for conference tourism. Recently the country held the African Development Bank meeting, which is contributing to more revenue from the sector,” Head of Tourism and […]

Spanning on an area of 26,338 square kilometers almost the size of Haiti or Albania, the land of a ‘thousand hills’ as commonly described is one of the most incredible Safari destinations in Africa. Geographically the country is located in the East African region and bordered by Uganda in the north, D R Congo in […]

The medical team treating gorillas within the Volcanoes National Park have made a report of what they described as a “gorilla boom” in Rwanda as more than expected numbers of infants are born in the park. According to the Gorilla Doctors – a conservationist group reported Tuesday that it has recorded 24 baby gorillas in […]

How do I book a hike to the Dian Fossey Karisoke ? Do I need to join a group or can I do it alone?? Are there other activities at the research center? When planning to travel Rwanda to Hike the Dian Fossey Tomb, its important to either book through a travel agent with in […]