Trip reports
What our tour groups experienced

Rwanda Birding and Wildlife Custom Safari Tour (27 May – 2 June, 2022)
Rwanda Birding and Wildlife Custom Safari Tour Rwenzori Batis Rwanda Birding and Wildlife Custom Safari Tour TOP BIRDS OF THE TOUR – AS VOTED BY GUESTS Rwenzori Turaco Stripe-breasted Tit Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher Papyrus Gonolek Rwenzori/ Collared Apalis Rwenzori Batis Regal Sunbird Green-capped Eremomela Ruaha Chat TOP MAMMALS OF THE TOUR – AS VOTED […]

Uganda Birding and Wildlife Custom Safari Tour (27 April – 4 May, 2022)
Uganda Birding and Wildlife Custom Safari Tour Fox’s Weaver (Uganda’s only endemic bird species) Uganda Birding and Wildlife Custom Safari Tour TOP BIRDS OF THE TOUR – AS VOTED BY GUESTS Fox’s Weaver Red-pate Cisticola African Grey Parrot Black-billed Turaco Great Blue Turaco Piapiac Black-headed Gonolek Blue-breasted Kingfisher TOP MAMMALS OF THE TOUR – […]

Coastal Kenya Birding and Wildlife Tour (23 January – 4 February, 2022)
Coastal Kenya Birding and Wildlife Tour Sokoke Scops-Owls Coastal Kenya Birding and Wildlife Tour TOP BIRDS OF THE TOUR – AS VOTED BY GUESTS Secretarybird Spotted Eagle-Owl Sokoke Scops-Owl Southern Ground Hornbill Long-tailed/ Eastern Paradise Whydah TOP MAMMALS OF THE TOUR – AS VOTED BY GUESTS African Lion Leopard Baby Grant’s Gazelle […]

Kenya Birding and Big Game Tour (20 November – 6 December, 2021)
Kenya Birding and Big Game Tour Jackson’s Hornbill Kenya Birding and Big Game Tour Report and photos by Tour Leader Washington Wachira Beisa Oryx Pygmy Falcon Greater Kudu TOP BIRDS OF THE TOUR – AS VOTED BY GUESTS Three-banded Courser Malachite Kingfisher Secretarybird Northern Carmine Bee-eater Lilac-breasted Roller White-crested Turaco Great Blue Turaco […]

Western Kenya Custom Birding Tour (5-13 November, 2021)
Western Kenya Custom Birding Tour Papyrus Gonoleks Western Kenya Custom Birding Tour Report and photos by Tour Leader Washington Wachira Black-faced Rufous Warbler This exciting Western Kenya Custom Birding Tour was customised from our Western Kenya Birding Tour, with the goal of finding some specific species from this beautiful region. The tour focused on […]

The Sharpe’s Longclaw Expedition (February 17, 2018)
THE SHARPE’S LONGCLAW EXPEDITION – TRIP REPORT by Sidney Shema – Tour Leader, Cisticola Tours Ltd. The day started right on schedule as I met up with our clients Chris, Ashok, Bijal, Par and Tommy as well as our driver Charles at the museum in the morning and we were on the road by 7 […]

Gatamaiyu Forest and Manguo Swamp Day Birding Tour, Kenya (December 16, 2017)
A report by john Wanyoike (Tour Leader – Cisticola Tours) Birding in the Kenyan Highlands can be very rewarding for any clients on a tour. We recently enjoyed a great birding day tour in Central Kenya; scoring over 100 species of birds in just a day. The day started early as we met Pär and […]

Nairobi City Ultimate Experience Tour (December 12, 2017)
A report by John Wanyoike (Tour Leader – Cisticola Tours) The day started early as our driver Julius, our director Wachira and I picked up our client (Ines) from the hotel around 6.15 am. We headed straight to the Nairobi National Park; and arrived at the park gate at 6.30am. There was a long queue […]

Nairobi National Park Day Trip (September 2, 2017)
A report by Sidney Shema (Tour Leader) – CisticolaTours The day started early as our driver Charles and I picked up 3 of our clients (Raj, David and Pär) from their homes between 5.30 am and 6.15 am. We arrived at the park gate at 6.30am where we met our 4th client (Caroline) and proceeded […]