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Nyungwe National Park was featured in the May/June 2014 issue of World Spa & Travel magazine. Featuring information on the lush forests and unique primates, the article highlights the beauty of Rwanda’s newest National Park.

For 2014, Rough Guides, one of the world’s top travel guide publishers, named Rwanda among the Top 10 countries to visit and included Nyungwe National Park as a highlight. Visit the Rough Guides site at http://www.roughguides.com/best-places/2014/top-10-countries/. Achieving this ranking among many destinations around the world follows a similar top ranking in December 2013 by National

The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Nyungwe Nziza (“Beautiful Nyungwe”) project was named one of the winners of the Society of American Travel Writers’ (SATW) Phoenix Awards at SATW’s annual convention in Biloxi, Mississippi in October 2013. USAID’s involvement in Nyungwe dates back over 20 years, and since the forest’s designation as a

Redemption in the Rain Forest How does a nation overcome the gut-wrenching stigma of a genocide, now two decades past, and proclaim to the world that it is a safe and surprising place to visit? For Rwanda, one strategy is to highlight a tract of unspoiled mountain rain forest rife with chimpanzees and a dozen

Nziza Project, located in Rwanda’s Nyungwe forest has been named winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ top Globe Award (BGTW), at the Guild’s prestigious annual awards dinner in London’s Savoy Hotel on the night of November 04. Sited in south-west, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) project was praised for harmonising tourism, wildlife, environmental