The Rift Valley, Indian Ocean coast and the great safari landscapes. Country guides for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and their neighbors.
Sellers sit behind tomatoes, cabbages and potatoes at an open-air market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Destination

Ethiopia

The walled city of Harar and the Gedeo agroforestry landscape: two of Ethiopia's twelve World Heritage inscriptions, beyond the two everyone already knows.
Aug 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Cultivated terraces and homesteads fall away to Lake Bunyonyi in south-western Uganda.
Destination

Uganda

Mountain gorillas in Bwindi, the royal tombs at Kasubi, and forests that climb from the plains toward the snowline of the Rwenzori range.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A paved road curves into dense montane rainforest in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda.
Destination

Rwanda

Nyungwe’s rainforest, primates at altitude, and four genocide memorial sites now on the World Heritage List: Rwanda asks to be understood, not only visited.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Kilimanjaro’s snow-capped summit rises above a band of cloud, with flat-topped acacias on the plain below.
Destination

Tanzania

Kilimanjaro, the medieval trading ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani, and seven World Heritage sites across a country of mountain, plain and coast.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Three four-wheel-drive vehicles on a wide salt plain, the low sun reflected in the wet crust.
Culture

Afar: Human Origins, Salt and Fire in Ethiopia's Rift

The Afar Depression in northeastern Ethiopia holds one of the deepest records of human origins anywhere, alongside a working salt trade, an acid hydrothermal field and a persistent lava lake.

Aug 8, 2026 · 9 min read
A giraffe and a bare acacia stand in silhouette against an amber savanna sky at dusk.
Destination

Kenya

The Rift Valley, the Mara migration, Swahili coastal cities, and a conservation model that has been argued over for fifty years.
Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read
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