Category Archives: RWANDA TOURS

How Lions suddenly disappeared from Akagera national park

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 […]

Gorilla naming ceremony highly lifted Rwanda’s profile

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 […]

Rwanda and the rest of the world enjoyed the 10th Kwita Izina cerebrations

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 […]

RDB officially launches the Kwita Izina festival

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 […]

18 little gorillas will be named during this year’s Kwita Izina festivity.

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 […]

Uganda martyrs’ day celebrations draw Tourism boards closer.

  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 […]

Rwandan conservationists return a gorilla to Congo

  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 […]