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Kigali car rental guide.Kigali is one of Africa’s most rewarding cities to explore by hired car — clean, well-organised, and set across a series of steep hills that make the city’s layout genuinely interesting to navigate, with viewpoints, neighbourhoods, memorials, markets, and restaurants distributed across ridges and valleys that are best discovered at your own pace in your own vehicle. […]

Where to stay during gorilla trekking.Where you stay during gorilla trekking matters more than it does for almost any other safari activity in East Africa. The 8:00am briefing at the sector headquarters is non-negotiable — arriving late means forfeiting a permit that costs $800 USD in Uganda or considerably more in Rwanda, and there are no refunds. Gorilla trekking is […]

Kigali to Bwindi road trip guide.The drive from Kigali to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of the most visually extraordinary road trips in Africa — a journey that climbs from Rwanda’s immaculate capital through the thousand hills landscape of its volcanic northwest, crosses the Virunga highland border into Uganda at Cyanika, passes beneath the ancient volcano cones of the […]

Self drive gorilla safari from Kigali.Kigali is one of the finest starting points for a gorilla safari in the world — a clean, well-organised, easy-to-navigate capital city that sits within two hours’ drive of Rwanda’s own gorilla trekking at Volcanoes National Park and within four to five hours’ drive of Uganda’s world-famous gorilla trekking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park across […]

Katuna border crossing guide.The Katuna–Gatuna border crossing is the most frequently used entry point between Uganda and Rwanda for self drive tourists — a well-organised, relatively efficient crossing that connects Uganda’s Kabale highlands and Lake Bunyonyi with Rwanda’s southern region and the main road to Kigali. On the Uganda side the crossing is known as Katuna; on the Rwanda side […]

Border crossing tips for self drivers.Crossing an international border in a hired 4×4 on a self drive safari is one of those experiences that sounds more daunting on paper than it is in practice — but it does require specific preparation and specific knowledge that a spontaneous approach at the crossing gate cannot replace. The Uganda Rwanda border crossings at […]