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Travel Blog

Safari travel has historically been built around couples and small groups, and solo travelers researching a Tanzania trip often run into a genuine practical question early […]
Nearly every visitor to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area comes for a single destination: the crater floor and its extraordinary wildlife density. Far fewer realize that the […]
Few landscapes on Earth look quite as hostile to life as Lake Natron, a shallow, blood-red soda lake in northern Tanzania’s remote Rift Valley, its water […]
Most safari marketing pushes travelers hard toward Tanzania’s dry season, and for good reason given the concentrated wildlife viewing those months typically deliver. What that marketing […]
Walk through almost any market or curio shop in Dar es Salaam or Zanzibar and bold, brightly colored paintings of animals, village scenes, and stylized figures […]
Most visitors to Rwanda spend their days chasing a tight itinerary: an early drive to Volcanoes National Park, a permit briefing at dawn, a trek through […]
Fly into Kigali after a long overland journey through other East African capitals and the first thing that tends to strike visitors is how little the […]
Two hours south of Kigali, past terraced hillsides and roadside markets selling pineapples and dried beans, the town of Nyanza holds one of the most quietly […]
Every year on the fourth of July, Rwanda observes Liberation Day, a public holiday commemorating the end of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and the […]
Ask museum professionals across East Africa which institution best preserves the material culture of a single nation, and the Ethnographic Museum in Huye comes up more […]
Rwanda’s reputation as a coffee origin has existed for over a century, but the country’s transformation into a place where you can actually sit down and […]
Once a year, on a field in Kinigi at the foot of the Virunga volcanoes, Rwanda holds a ceremony that has no real parallel anywhere else […]