TRAVELLERS REST

Kisoro district, Southwestern Uganda

Budget

In the extreme southwestern corner of Uganda, on the borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the Hotel Travellers Rest lies under the towering volcanoes. Travellers Rest, just outside Kisoro, offers a cozy stay for tourists, who come to see the endangered mountain gorilla.

The hotel, built in a somewhat colonial style, and entirely renovated in 1999, has a comfortable ambience. The twelve rooms are reasonable priced. When you enter, the Ibis bird welcomes you with its typical call. The beautiful surrounding garden is the home of many birds. Sitting on the terrace you can smell the sweet perfume of the honeysuckle. In the evenings, when it gets cooler, visitors can warm themselves at a fireplace, outside or in the lounge. 

In the sixties the famous American ‘gorilla-woman’ Dian Fossey visited Travellers Rest many, many times to do paperwork, to relax or to meet people. Fossey said about the hotel: "It was my second home". 

Travellers Rest is an hour's flight from Entebbe, a long day's drive from Kampala or a four hour drive from Kigali.

The hotel acts as a start point for various activities available for visitors to undertake. Travellers Rest provides bikes to discover the nearby surroundings, You may visit Lake Mutanda, you can walk to the local market in Kisoro on Mondays and Thursdays, or you can climb one of the volcanoes. And of course you can go and track the mountain gorilla. To see these animals, visit the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda or the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda.