The Land of a Thousand Hills, as Rwanda is often known, offers travel escapism of the most memorable sort. Think of the country from afar and it appears in the mind’s eye as a sweep of jungle green ...

Lions, white rhinos, elephants, and giraffes have been reintroduced to a park that was once nearly devastated by civil war.

Nearly 25 years since its founding, Praveen Moman's Volcanoes Safaris is as focused on community and sustainability as ever. Brad Japhe is a journalist specializing in food, beverage, and travel. He ...

Why does travel always feel like a dream once it’s over? It took until we touched down on the tarmac at LAX for it to hit me: my short time in Rwanda — “The Heart of Africa” — had come and gone. The ...

A muddied Toyota land cruiser bumps along the hilly gravel road behind a troop of baboons. Zebras and topis graze along the woodlands. A hippopotamus lumbers into the lake and basks in the sun as ...

Three years ago when I walked from my room to the camp-fire at Rwanda’s Ruzizi Tented Lodge, I worried about running into a hippo in the dark, jumping at the swoosh of their ridiculous, low-slung ...

Rwanda, which sits smack in the heart of sub-Saharan Africa, is home to one of the oldest rainforests in Africa. Rising up to over 6,000 feet, the Nyungwe National Park is a highly elevated and ...

It may not have the cachet of a safari in neighboring Kenya or Uganda, but what a Rwandan safari also lacks is something you won’t miss at all: tourist hordes. Actually, the fact that Akagera National ...

Wilderness Safaris has revealed its plans for an intimate new luxury lodge in Rwanda. Expected to open in September in the exclusive Bisate Reserve, the lodge will feature just four villas and ...

This is the incredible moment a huge silverback gorilla emerged from the undergrowth inches away from stunned tourists before posing for pictures during a safari in Rwanda. Video shows a group of ...

Rwanda is the travel world’s phoenix rising. From a devastating genocide more than two decades ago, it has emerged as one of East Africa’s premier travel destinations, with a capital city transformed ...