Rwanda surprises almost everyone.
Hill after hill after hill, intensely green, the Virunga volcanoes rising in the north above bamboo and mist. The country is small, ordered and forward-looking in a way that feels genuinely different from anywhere else on the continent.
The gorillas of Volcanoes National Park are the reason most people come, and the experience exceeds what most people imagine. To trek through the bamboo and find a family in a clearing, the silverback watchful a few metres away, a mother nursing her infant, juveniles tumbling nearby, is humbling. Sitting in that clearing, with a ranger who has known this family for years and speaks of them the way you would speak of neighbours, that proximity becomes very real.
- Trek through bamboo forest to meet a mountain gorilla family
- Visit the golden monkeys of the Virunga volcanic highlands
- Explore Volcanoes National Park with rangers who have known these families for years
- Walk the intensely green thousand hills of the Rwandan countryside
BEST TIME TO TRAVEL
December - February: Gorilla trekking (dry season)
June - September : To experience the rest of the country
what we love
A Family of Gorillas in a Clearing
The silverback holds your gaze. You share 98% of the same DNA.
Kigali
The food, the energy, the conversations you didn't expect. A city writing its own future.
THE VOLCANOES AT DUSK
The Virunga volcanoes catching the last light above the mist, five peaks on the horizon - this is a landscape that feels ancient in a way that stays with you.
THE RWANDA THAT SURPRISES YOU
A conversation with a local artist in local towns. A meal that belongs on any global list but is a best-kept secret.
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