A safari company built on long walks and long relationships.
Since 2016, planning private journeys through Uganda and Rwanda from a single office in Kampala.
Why we started.
Zenvoy began in 2016 after our founder, Doreen Nakato, spent fifteen years guiding for larger operators across Uganda. The pattern was familiar: travellers arrived tired, itineraries were built around vehicle logistics rather than the wildlife, and the people who had planned the trip were rarely the people delivering it.
We opened the first Zenvoy office above a coffee shop on Kimathi Avenue with three guides and one Land Cruiser. Eight years later there are eleven of us. We still take fewer than thirty bookings a month. We still fit around one long table for morning briefing.
The house has one rule: the person who plans your trip has walked it. If you ask about the Nkuringo ridge, you're speaking to someone who slept there last week.
Four things we hold to.
Fewer trips, better trips.
We cap at 350 travellers a year. Beyond that, the promise breaks.
Local wages, local ownership.
Every guide, driver and office team member is Ugandan or Rwandan and employed directly, not sub-contracted.
Conservation is a line item.
USD 40 of every safari goes to Nyabyeya reforestation and Bwindi buffer-zone schools.
No fabricated urgency.
We won't tell you a permit is 'nearly sold out' unless it truly is. Pressure marketing is banned in-house.
Guides and planners on the road with you.
Leads Zenvoy's operations from Kampala, overseeing itinerary design, partnerships and the day-to-day standards our travellers experience on the ground.
Co-founder and director with deep roots in Uganda's tourism industry. Sets the company's long-term direction and stewards our community and conservation commitments.
Plans bespoke Uganda and Rwanda journeys end-to-end — permits, lodges, transfers and the small details that make a trip feel considered.
Sustainability & community.
We are a member of the Uganda Tour Operators Association and hold the Uganda Tourism Board operator licence. Beyond compliance, we contribute a fixed portion of every trip to Nyabyeya Forestry College's indigenous nursery and the Bwindi Community Hospital patient transport fund. Numbers, partners and receipts are published in our annual community report — ask for a copy any time.
Request the Community Report