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Ukuri SAFARI CAMPS for responsible travellers.

SAFARI CAMPS for responsible travellers

Lodges and campsites managed by AFRICAN PARKS that offer:
Tangible, measurable benefits for conservation & communities. 100% of tourism revenue earned by African Parks goes to conservation and local communities

✔️ Vested communities ✔️ Authentic experiences

✔️ Remote locations ✔️ Responsible & sustainable safaris

Ukuri /oo-KOO-ree/ • noun
ukuri means ‘truth’ or ‘authentic’ in the language of Kinyarwanda (spoken across central and east Africa)

16/10/2026

Some safari days are best finished on the water.

Ruzizi Tented Lodge sits among palms and fig trees on the shore of Lake Ihema in Akagera National Park. From this intimate nine-tent ecolodge, a boat excursion offers a completely different view of the park – waterbirds along the margins, hippos in the shallows and crocodiles warming on the banks, with a sunset departure available for a particularly atmospheric finale.

Pair the lake with Akagera’s game drives to allow guests to experience two distinct safari perspectives from one relaxed base. Wildlife is never scheduled, of course, but the change of pace is part of the appeal.

Find out more here: https://ukuri.travel/bookings/ruzizi-tented-lodge

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Friends of Akagera National Park

The Top 6 Ukuri ExperiencesFrom remarkable wildlife encounters to meaningful cultural connections, these seven experienc...
15/10/2026

The Top 6 Ukuri Experiences

From remarkable wildlife encounters to meaningful cultural connections, these seven experiences offer distinct ways to explore Africa. Each is available through Ukuri and takes place at carefully selected lodges and destinations that support conservation and local communities.

Book here: https://ukuri.travel/all-experiences

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14/10/2026

The Cape buffalo has been nicknamed ‘The Black Death’ due to its size, strength and bad temper. Weighing almost a ton with their thick hides and massive horns, buffaloes often stand their ground when faced with lions, who must rely on coordinated group tactics to successfully make a kill.

Ready to experience a truly unique, purposeful Big 5 safari? Book your adventure with Ukuri and see these formidable beasts for yourself!

Book here: https://ukuri.travel/experiences/big-5-safari

Ukuri | Safari camps for responsible travellers

100% of tourism revenue supports conservation and local communities.

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13/10/2026

Walking in the Wild

Enjoy a brief or extended walking safari, one of several experiences Ukuri offers, in habitats ranging from bushveld to rainforest to mountains. Walking with an experienced guide is a great way to learn about the tell-tale signs that animals leave when they pass by. Your guides read the 'daily news' of who went where and of deadly predator-prey encounters.

And because you are out there without the protection of a vehicle, your senses will be alert to the sounds and smells we miss on a game drive – a thrilling experience.

Book your next walking safari with Ukuri: https://ukuri.travel/experiences/walking-safari

Africa Geographic

12/10/2026

Wildlife does not live in isolation from people. Around many of Africa's protected areas, there are communities balancing farming, work and family life with the realities of living alongside wild animals.

Spending time in one of these communities can be a memorable part of a safari. You might visit a beekeeping project, fish farm or tree nursery, or meet people involved in local conservation and education. Occasionally, your visit may coincide with a ceremony or celebration already taking place in the community.

These visits are arranged locally and depend on what is happening at the time. There may be no polished programme – and that is rather the point. You are there to meet people, ask questions and learn something about life beyond the boundaries of the reserve.

Discover more:
https://ukuri.travel/experiences/cultural-and-community

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Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve

Tembe is more than tuskers. Slow down for rare sand forest, tropical birds at the southern edge of their range, tracks i...
11/10/2026

Tembe is more than tuskers. Slow down for rare sand forest, tropical birds at the southern edge of their range, tracks in soft sand and the sounds of the bush after dark. Tembe Elephant Park Lodge places guests beneath the canopy, with private verandas, outdoor showers and guided drives led by people who know this ancestral landscape intimately.

Discover Tembe’s sand forest on a three- or four-night stay.

Book your stay at Tembe Elephant Park Lodge here: https://ukuri.travel/bookings/tembe-elephant-park-lodge

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Tembe Elephant Park

10/10/2026

Bazaruto Archipelago National Park is one of the most important marine sanctuaries along East Africa's coast, and protects over 180 bird, 45 reptile, and 16 terrestrial mammal species.

The national park also protects all five regionally resident turtle species, six dolphin, and over 2,000 fish species, as well as southern right and humpback whales. Add to that orcas, 122 shark and ray species, and flamboyant nudibranchs, among other creatures.

The most popular residents of the Bazaruto Archipelago for those seeking exceptional marine sightings are whale sharks, manta rays and dugongs.

Activities include beach dinners, sunset dhow cruises and cocktails, helicopter flights, snorkelling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, island excursions, ocean safaris, hiking, sea kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, community tours and mangrove exploration.

Stay at Bazaruto Sands, a fully catered boutique beach ecolodge featuring only seven ensuite chalets.

Book now: ukuri.travel/places/bazaruto-archipelago

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Bazaruto Sands

Some safaris begin with a sighting. In Odzala-Kokoua, Congo-Brazzaville, they often begin with a sound: leaves moving hi...
09/10/2026

Some safaris begin with a sighting. In Odzala-Kokoua, Congo-Brazzaville, they often begin with a sound: leaves moving high in the canopy, a distant primate call, water shifting along a forest river.

Camp Imbalanga is built to keep you close to that sound. Just twelve guests stay at a time, in six ensuite canvas chalets set beneath enormous trees.

A short walkway from camp leads to Imbalanga Baï, where an elevated hide gives patient travellers the chance to watch for secretive forest wildlife. River cruises, birding and nature hikes reveal other sides of the Congo Basin. Sightings are never guaranteed here – and that's part of what makes them worth waiting for.

A four- to five-night stay gives the forest time to unfold.

Explore Camp Imbalanga: https://ukuri.travel/bookings/camp-imbalanga

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Parc National Odzala - Kokoua

Nyungwe holds 30 bird species found nowhere outside the Albertine Rift – turacos, forest specialists, canopy flocks that...
08/10/2026

Nyungwe holds 30 bird species found nowhere outside the Albertine Rift – turacos, forest specialists, canopy flocks that move through as a single shifting mass. Park guides who specialise in birding lead the walks, and most of the work is done through listening before looking.

This is not a forest to hurry through. Give Nyungwe a few days and mornings can begin on the trails, with forest walks or primate trekking taking over later. Munazi Lodge makes an easy base for that slower rhythm.

Its nine A-frame cottages sit raised above the forest floor, facing north into the valley. Much of the timber used to build the lodge is from reclaimed exotic wood cleared from the park – part of the ongoing work to remove invasive trees and allow indigenous vegetation to recover.

Stay for the birds, certainly. But leave enough time for the rest of Nyungwe too.

Make Munazi Lodge the base for a multi-day Nyungwe adventure. Explore Munazi Lodge: https://ukuri.travel/bookings/munazi-lodge

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Nyungwe National Park - Rwanda

There are things in the Okavango that are easy to miss…A disturbance in the grass. The direction of spoor on the ground....
07/10/2026

There are things in the Okavango that are easy to miss…

A disturbance in the grass. The direction of spoor on the ground. A change in the water that says something about where animals might be moving. At Okavango Origins, the people interpreting these signs are Bukakhwe guides and trackers whose knowledge of the northern Delta reaches far beyond the usual safari briefing.

That perspective follows you through the day – out on game drives, walking through the bush and, when water levels allow, travelling quietly by mokoro.

Okavango Origins itself is tiny, with four guest tents and no more than eight guests in camp. There’s room here to linger over tracks, change direction when something catches your guide's attention and ask the questions that inevitably come when you stop rushing from one sighting to the next.

For us, that is a large part of the appeal: experiencing the Okavango with people who can interpret far more than the animals immediately in front of you.

Explore Okavango Origins: https://ukuri.travel/bookings/okavango-origins

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Okavango Origins

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