ABOUT

KAGERA SAFARIS

A Destination Management Company - DMC

Specializing in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania

Offering you memorable travel experiences in the East Africa region. Our safari experts know the region having visited all the areas they offer. We put together the best intimate experiences, give attention to detail, and have relationships with leading accommodations delivering custom-made experiences for private tours and small group safaris.

We plan experiences for all the national parks and game reserves in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The most sought-after experiences include; gorilla trekking safaris, chimpanzee trekking, big game safaris, birding safaris, beach holidays, and cultural tours in the East African region.

 

The Founder

I love traveling and I enjoy the countryside. From an early age, I looked forward to a time of visiting relatives living far from our home while others dreaded it.

In 2012, I started Kagera Safaris from a love of travel and nature and a love for community development. I am passionate about creating opportunities for others and I desire to incorporate travel to national parks with visits to communities so that they benefit directly from tourism income.

I love sharing knowledge of the destinations we work in with visitors who often experience something different from what they read or watched on TV (oftentimes media concentrates on the negative). It has been said that people come to Africa for the attractions but leave with fond memories of the people they get to interact with.

We offer a personal touch to every trip – individually tailored and respond to your needs and wishes as best as we can. We have been involved in putting together great experiences for people for over ten years.

We look forward to creating a distinctive and memorable holiday vacation for you in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Kagera Safaris - Founder

WHAT WE DO

A boutique, hands-on company, committed to excellence and quality

We offer you itineraries that are well-researched by our safari experts taking into account your interests and preferences. The itineraries on the website are examples and you are encouraged to custom-make your itinerary with the guidance of our safari consultants. This ensures you get bespoke safari holidays that give you a memorable experience for you and your travel group of friends, family, workmates, schoolmates, etc.

We ensure that you receive all the information you need; your safari itinerary taking into account your interests and preferred time and length of travel. The tour consultant will keep in touch with you while on safari to ensure you have an enjoyable experience.

Why Work With

Kagera Safaris

Quick and Personalised safari planning

Our DMC helps you design tailor-made experiences for your clients hustle free, freeing you to concentrate on other aspects of your business. We are committed to personalised safari planning, working with you to come up with the best of East Africa by professionally helping you chose the best destinations, activities and lodges.

Passionate & Knowledgeable Guides

We know that guides are a big part of your experience while on safari, in many ways they can ‘make or break it’. Over the years we have worked with the best guides who offer amazing experiences. Our guides are passionate about their work and also invest in growing their knowledge of the destinations, which thankfully in most cases is the same as their country. Our guides are naturalist guides and are members of the different guides associations in their respective countries. We offer specialized birding safaris and ornithology trips with trained birdwatching guides. On request, we provide language guides for Spanish, French, and German.

Comfortable Vehicles

Kagera Safaris vehicles are serviced regularly to ensure clients’ comfort and safety with minimum risk of breakdown. We run our tours in 4×4 land cruisers with pop-up roofs and we ensure that everyone has a window seat for wildlife viewing and photography. You have exclusive access to the vehicle for the entire period of your safari.

Flying Safaris

Kagera Safaris organizes flying safaris to all the destinations we offer, sometimes scheduled flights or charter. There is also an option of helicopters for areas without airstrips.  This can be in combination with road travel where part of the journey is taken on the road. The client sometimes chooses to fly between destinations that take more than five hours of driving. Whatever your reason for flying, we do arrange for a beautiful experience in the bush planes across our destinations.

Remarkable Lodges

Kagera Safaris partners with amazing luxury safari lodges and tented camps built mostly with local materials and décor. These are often set in prime locations as close to the wilderness as possible giving one a true wilderness experience. The rooms are often secluded each with enough living space and a pool in certain instances to plunge in after your time in the wild. The lodges have trained staff and are intimately involved in their local communities by employing locals and running projects.

Responsible Tourism

We are passionate about linking tourism to rural community development so the ‘tourism dollar’ can reach the communities. This ensures communities living adjacent to the park and those along the ‘tourism route’ get actively engaged in the conservation of wildlife and the environment because they directly benefit from it. We encourage our clients to visit communities and ‘homestays’ and or engage in a community activity that lasts from 1 hour to several hours or overnight. The community activities include village walks which often lead to local schools and health centers, cooking and gardening, visits to traditional healers, learning basketry, and many others, offering you insight into the daily life of the local people. We give part of our profits to community schools to purchase laboratory equipment and to a project known as – Community Initiative for Children at Risk.

We have gone plastic bottle-free,  we provide water bottles. Water is available throughout the day and we have cups should you need them.

Accreditation

We are tourism wholesalers/ suppliers based in Kampala – Uganda. We are licensed with Uganda Tourism Board on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities of Uganda.  We have insurance with AMREF for tourist air evacuation in case of accident to Nairobi for further management. We have tour operators liability with SATIB Insurance. We are a member of AUTO – Association of Uganda Tour Operators.

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