The Land of a Thousand Hills. Rwanda’s unique landscape ranges from the towering peaks and cloud forests of the Virungas mountain range - home to the world’s largest population of Mountain Gorillas - sloping westward on to the elfin rural countryside of Lake Kivu, one of the deepest lakes on earth, dubbed ‘Little Switzerland’ for its stunning natural beauty. Aside from the legendary Gorillas, Rwanda is an important African rainforest setting with Old Primate families and rare bird species not seen outside the Albertine Rift.
“To someone who has never been to Rwanda, and within an-hour-and-half of entering the forest on their first morning, being in the midst of a Gorilla family... it’s truly the thrill of a lifetime”
“I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound. The air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic chestbeats of a Great Silverback male obscured by what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation” (Gorillas in the mist, 1983)
From the wildest corners of Botswana where Elephants sip at your private pool to the far-flung islands of Okavango, we have a collection of rare and unique experiences across Africa
One of the oldest rainforests in Africa, Nyungwe is rich in biodiversity and spectacularly beautiful. The mountainous region is teaming with wildlife, including a small population of chimpanzees and 12 other species of primate, including the endemic L’Hoest’s monkey
All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it yet but when I would wake in the night I would lie listening, homesick for it already - Hemingway
Akagera is quickly becoming one of Africa's most incredible birding destinations with recent sightings of the rare Shoebill stork; a birding opportunity not easily found elsewhere in Africa
