Description: A peaceful paradise with untouched beaches, bird-rich marshes and rare animal species. Here you can go on foot or by boat. This is the only good place in Tanzania to find sitatunga, East Africa’s only truly amphibious antelope.
There are also other antelopes, vervet monkeys, small carnivores, hippos, crocodiles, reptiles and at least 200 bird species. There are also chimpanzees (unhabituated), elephant, colobus monkeys and giraffe, but you are less likely to see them.
It is also possible to go fishing for the Nile Perch!
Location: Island in Lake Victoria, reachable by flight from Arusha, Serengeti or Mwanza
Things 2 Do: Nature Walks, Fishing, Boat Excursions
Time: At least 3 nights
Animals: Sitatunga, Antelopes, Vervet Monkeys, Small Carnivores, Hippos, Crocodiles, Reptiles, Chimpanzees, Bushbucks and at least 200 bird species.
Accommodations
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Rubondo Island Camp
“We had a fantastic trip! We could not believe the things that we saw the places that we stayed were wonderful. The food was wonderful. An unbelievable experience. Our guide Barney was fantastic. He was kind, gracious knowledgeable, and when you spend hours in a Safari Jeep with somebody for days on end, you hope that there’s somebody you’d like to be with and he definitely was. Such a great man, and there wasn’t anything he didn’t know. We learned so much from him and really enjoyed his company. He went out of his way to find the types of animals we were looking for.”