Self drive Lake Mburo National Park.Lake Mburo National Park is the most accessible national park in Uganda — a compact, richly stocked savannah reserve set across five lakes and rolling acacia woodland approximately 228 kilometres from Entebbe and 240 kilometres from Kampala on a predominantly tarmac approach road. The journey from Entebbe takes three and a half to four hours […]

4×4 car rental Rwanda.Rwanda’s road network is the finest in East Africa, and that fact leads many visitors to ask a reasonable question: do you actually need a 4×4 in Rwanda, or will a standard car or soft-roader do the job? The honest answer is that Rwanda’s reputation for excellent roads is entirely deserved on its national highway network — […]

Cheap car hire in Rwanda.Rwanda is one of the most rewarding countries in Africa to hire a car affordably — a small, compact nation with an exceptional road network, well-maintained national park access roads, and a geography that makes its most remarkable destinations reachable without the long inter-park distances and demanding 4×4 terrain that characterise Uganda’s more remote circuits. The […]

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 […]