Soul Expeditions Africa
An aerial view of Rwanda's thousand hills
Kigali · Rwanda

A studio forsoulful African journeys.

Founded in Kigali in 2018 and owner-led from the ground up. We are a small studio of guides, conservationists and designers — quietly opinionated about wildlife, place, and how a journey should feel.

Owner-led · Based in RwandaScroll
  • 2018

    Founded · Kigali

  • 6

    African countries

  • 40+

    Curated lodges

  • 1,000+

    Travellers hosted

Index · 01 — The studio

We are a Kigali-born travel studio designing private, unhurried journeys across East Africa — the kind measured in stories rather than stops. A great expedition should feel less like a tour and more like being let in on a secret by someone who calls this place home.

Soul Expeditions Africa · Kigali
Index · 02 — Our story

How a love letter to Rwanda
became a travel studio.

Soul Expeditions Africa began in 2018 with a simple conviction: that the way the world travelled through Africa rarely did the continent justice. Too many journeys skimmed the surface — a checklist of animals, a blur of transfers, a guide reading from a script. We set out to build the opposite.

From a small office in Kigali, we started designing trips the way we would for family: led by guides who grew up tracking these forests, staying in places chosen for their soul rather than their star-rating, and always leaving room for the unplanned afternoon that becomes the story you tell for years.

Today we craft private expeditions across Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and beyond — but we remain, at heart, a Rwandan studio. We answer our own phones. We know our lodges by first name. And we still believe the finest journeys are designed one quiet conversation at a time.

We do not sell trips. We design the few weeks of someone’s year that they will never stop talking about.
Index · 03 — Principles

Quiet
commitments.

The things we will not compromise on, written down so we are held to them.

  1. 01

    Owner-led, always

    You plan with the people who carry the risk and the reputation — never a call centre. The person who designs your journey is the person who answers when it matters most.

  2. 02

    Local first

    Our guides, drivers and fixers are East African. The money you spend stays close to the ground it is spent on — in the communities that make these places worth visiting.

  3. 03

    Quietly luxurious

    We measure luxury in space, time and access — not gold taps. A private tracker, an empty viewpoint, a dinner that runs long because no one is rushing you anywhere.

  4. 04

    Light on the land

    We work only with lodges and parks that protect what they show you. Tourism should leave the gorillas, the plains and the people better off for our having come.

Index · 04 — Milestones

Written by hand.

A short history of the studio — small enough to read in a minute, careful enough to keep.

  1. 2018

    Founded in Kigali

    Soul Expeditions Africa opens its doors with one guide, a borrowed Land Cruiser, and a stubborn belief in slower, deeper travel.

  2. 2020

    Through the quiet years

    When the world stopped moving, we stayed close to our guides and lodges — and came through it with deeper roots than ever.

  3. 2022

    Beyond the borders

    Our journeys expand across the East African Community — Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the islands of Zanzibar.

  4. 2024

    A thousand stories in

    Having hosted travellers from six continents, we remain owner-led, Kigali-based, and proudly Rwandan.

Kigali, Rwanda
Kigali · Rwanda

Index · 05 — Studio

Headquartered in Kigali.

Our studio sits in the heart of Kigali — one of Africa’s safest, cleanest, and most welcoming capitals. It is where every itinerary is drawn by hand, and where you are always welcome for a coffee before you fly.

  • Studio

    Kigali, Rwanda

  • Email

    info@soulexpeditionsafrica.com

  • Phone

    +250 783 140 000

  • Hours

    Mon – Sat · 08:00 – 18:00 CAT

Rwanda's hills at dusk

Begin your journey

Tell us what you have in mind. We’ll design the rest.