After 15 years, lions are going to be reintroduced into Akagera National Park, Rwanda. Lions became extinct following the Rwanda genocide of 1994 when cattle herders poisoned the last remaining spices in the unmanaged park. This month, seven lions – five females donated by &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve, and two males by Ezemvelo KZN […]
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Virunga Refurb!
We refurbished three more rooms at Virunga Lodge last May! Seven of the ten rooms at Virunga Lodge have now been upgraded…and with only three more to go, the finish line is almost in sight. The new and improved bandas now have built-in fireplaces to keep guests warm after a long day on the mountain. […]
The Batwa of Gahinga
Rupert Shanks, Jocelyn Cox, Rory Trust and Rory Maclean, filmmakers from The Guardian Newspaper in the UK, travelled to Uganda to film a documentary about the life of the Batwa tribe after they were evicted from the forest to protect the mountain gorillas. “The Batwa tribe have shared the forests of Uganda with mountain gorillas […]
Special offer for Volcanoes Safaris Ugandan Lodges 2015!
Volcanoes Safaris has exciting news for all those intrepid travellers planning a visit to Uganda this year! We are offering special rates for our Ugandan lodges available from 1st May – 20th December 2015. Take a 4-Day safari to Volcanoes Bwindi Lodge overlooking the primeval Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and come-to face with the endangered mountain […]
World Bank team visits Virunga Lodge
Managing Director and Operating Officer of World Bank and the Kigali World Bank team Sri Mulyani Indrawati, joined us at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge this Thursday for lunch! While at Virunga Lodge, the World Bank team were served our popular “Taste of Rwanda” Platter, which samples some of Rwanda’s most authentic dishes such as Inyama Yinka ikaranze hamwe ninyanya(beef stew), Akatogo Kibitoke (Banana stew) and Umuceri wabugarama (white rice). The team wrote back to let […]
