Charlene Jendry, an American conservationist once visited Rwanda in 1990 and according to him; Akagera National Park was a high-end touristic destination with the mighty lions, the Kings of the Jungle and the prime tourist attractions. Often, the park rangers warned tourists staying in hotels close or inside the park against sitting outside at night […]
Category Archives: RWANDA TOURS
The trip includes volcanoes national park and on day one, together with the guide/driver from AA safaris, you will start with a Kigali city tour, visit the genocide memorial to see the remains of people that were killed in Kigali in the Rwanda Genocide. You will get information about the Genocide and then leave for […]
This Kwita Izina event as it is commonly known (baby gorilla naming), launched 10 years ago has really up lift the tourism profile of Rwanda. Telesphore Ngoga the conservation division manager at RDB said that as Rwanda Development Board (RDB), they started up different activities that are intended to improved people’s livelihood as well as […]
Most of the residents of Musanze District in Northern Province joined thousand of other people from the whole world to celebrate the 10th edition of gorilla-naming ceremony, Kwita Izina. They played ‘host and family’ to several visitors from across the world who were interested in being apart of the ceremony. This annual event, always held […]
Today being the long awaited day for one of the biggest events in Rwanda which is the Ikwita Izina as indicated on their annual tourism calendar. Many people believe that being apart of this event is a life time honor that everyone would wish to have. Well wishers include Bishop Nathan Amooti Rusengo, Emma Claudine […]
The Rwanda Development Board’s tourism together with the conservation department once again confirmed their commitment towards helping transform the livelihoods of people in communities that are near the Volcanoes National Park through annual tourism revenue sharing. This came from Amb. Yamina Karitanyi who is the RDB’s head of Tourism and Conservation while launching this 10th […]
Good news from Rwanda reveals that the Rwanda’s tourism sector was able to collect over $49million from conference tourism and they hope that they will be able to triple this by the year 2016. Basing on the records, Rwanda is becoming an attraction for conference tourism and recently they held the African Development Bank meeting […]
Come this year’s gorilla-naming ceremony commonly known as the Kwita Izina, about 18 new born gorillas will be named, in Kinigi, Musanze District. This event will be held on July 1 and will also mark 10 years of promoting the conservation of the endangered species, under the theme ‘A Decade: Conserving Empowering-Growing. This was announced […]
Just last year, there was a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ that saw the introduction of such tourism related proposals like the introduction of the common tourist Visa and the use of the joint exhibition spaces at major tourism trade fairs. All the tourist boards from all the three countries have agreed to support the […]
Conservationists in Rwanda safely returned an orphan gorilla from Kinigi back home in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) early this week after rescuing it from poachers in August 2011. From the time of its rescue from captivity, this endangered female gorilla from the Grauer family of Congo which are classified as “endangered” by […]