Away from city lights, East Africa’s savannahs offer some of the darkest night skies left on the continent, and several camps have built genuine stargazing experiences […]

Central Tanzania’s Kondoa Irangi Rock-Art Sites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006, hold one of the densest collections of rock paintings in East Africa, spread […]

Olduvai Gorge, on the eastern edge of the Serengeti plains in northern Tanzania, is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world. It was […]

The hills bordering Rwanda’s Nyungwe Forest and the slopes around Musanze are covered in some of the country’s most productive tea estates, and several now welcome […]

The forests of East Africa look and sound completely different after dark, and a handful of lodges near Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Nyungwe Forest, and Kibale Forest […]

Kitum Cave, on the Kenyan side of Mount Elgon National Park, is one of East Africa’s more unusual natural attractions: a lava tube roughly 200 meters […]

Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania near the Kenyan border, is one of the most visually striking landscapes in East Africa: a shallow soda lake so alkaline […]

The Virunga Mountains, a chain of eight volcanoes straddling Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, offer some of the most rewarding volcano hikes in […]

The hike to the top of Murchison Falls in Uganda is one of East Africa’s most rewarding short waterfall walks: a trail that climbs alongside the […]

Lake Bunyonyi, in southwestern Uganda near the Rwanda border, is one of the few lakes in the region confirmed free of bilharzia and considered safe for […]

Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda is one of the few parks in the region where a ranger-guided canoe safari is offered as a standard activity, […]

The Mnemba Atoll, a small privately-managed island off Zanzibar’s northeastern tip, protects one of the healthiest coral reef systems on the Tanzanian coast, and its surrounding […]