We are delighted to see Kyambura Gorge Lodge included in Travel and Leisure. Especially pleased that Volcanoes Safaris is described to have ‘community and conservation at its heart.” Read the full article here A 7-day safari to Kyambura Gorge Lodge and Bwindi Lodge in Uganda includes a gorilla and chimpanzee trek, games drives to […]
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Explorers and Conservationists of the Virunga Volcanoes and the Dian Fossey Map Room
The Dian Fossey Map Room at Virunga Lodge was opened on 2 March 2017 in honor of Dr. Dian Fossey, the pioneer primatologist who set up the Karisoke Center high in the Virunga volcanoes in 1967. A permanent exhibition has been set up in the Map Room charting the ‘Conservationists and Explorers of the Virunga Volcanoes’ […]
Kyambura Women’s Coffee Cooperative
The Kyambura Women’s Coffee Cooperative is a community-based initiative designed to provide vocational training to women so that they can develop additional and sustainable sources of income. At Kyambura local women and their families tend to about 2,000 Arabica and Robusta coffee plants in 100 acres of rejuvenated VSPT land. They then process the coffee […]
Bwindi Bar trainees graduation
Bwindi Bar, the ‘Harry’s Bar of Bwindi’, on Buhoma high street near Volcanoes Safaris Bwindi Lodge, held a graduation ceremony recently for the latest graduates of its award-winning practical hospitality training program. Six trainees, all from the local community around Bwindi Lodge, successfully completed the three month training course. It provides practical experience and an […]
Virunga lodge staff get vaccine!
We are delighted to announce that the staff of Virunga Lodge have received the first vaccination against Covid-19! Thank you to the Rwanda Government for making the vaccine available speedily to the hospitality sector. The wellbeing of our guests, staff and communities is of paramount importance and our health and safety procedures have been updated across our properties. […]