Great to see that you’re interested in coming to the DRC and let me assure you that you have come to precisely the right place. – We are the only professional agency operating in the country, in fact the only operation and team at all actually in the country, let alone outside of Kinshasa and with boots on ground in the bush. We are fulltime and directly experienced setting up all kinds of literal expeditions (not really “tours” in that sense sometimes) and providing extremely complicated logistics all over the country.

We run more regular but still fluid and changing tours though yes, running the grand length of the Congo River, jungle bonobo tracking (we are the only agency offering this) in the rainforest way off the banks of the river, gorilla tracking (currently only in Kahuzi-Biega, Lefini, and Central African Republic, as Virunga NP and the volcano are closed and the wilder gorillas in the middle of the bush need 2-3 months or more to track and see), tiger fishing trips (Goliath Tiger Fish), genuine photogenic cultural tours (pygmy tribes, Wagenia Falls, isolated subethnic and lingual groups in the forest and the Angola frontier), rainforest exploration and bush camp and base camp pinning ops for science and surveys and studies, and trekking trips to Lake Télé and deep interior lakes and rivers farther off the path than that, can set up pretty much any expedition as long as security legal tactical and finance requirements are met.

Any kind of tour will be at least $20,000 to $100,000 usd (for certain isolated places) for a week to two or more weeks, depending on the duration, the zone, and the project SOW. It is simply not possible to do anything for less if you are really going into the Congo and not just drifting around a few dirt roads in the capital and villages and seeing nothing but a few unremarkable blocks of the capital and roads out of a vast vast world of green and adventure, without any real wilderness or tour….You won’t see the Congo.

As soon as you’re down the road and off it there are too many human and natural variables which can alter, threaten, or destroy the tour (and you.) It is best to have something customized according to your wishes and interests and adapted acutely to the current security situation accurately in the target zones where it is needed to do so.

Even for country-counters, 160 countries traveled does not, even a little, preview or presage what it is like to travel here outside the main boulevard in the capital and the now closed route up Virunga park. That’s typically why this nation is often last to visit. No travel experience can prepare you for Congo. Having traveled to places such as the deep Amazon jungle, fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan or Zaire-Angola’s Cold War Conflict, or even living in Somalia and Mali or biking from Morocco to Cape Town WILL NOT PREPARE YOU TO TRAVEL ACROSS DRC.

DRC is a different kind of nut to crack and is not for your typical tourist, and while Congo is a unique and fantastic destination, it is also extremely hard to travel due to lack of infrastructure and local information, ambushes, blockades, hostile locals in some locales that don’t match people’s “sunny African experiences” and in all tranches and tracts of the nation – corruption and all guarantees of multitudes of leftfield factors which can heavily alter your tour.

This is not a country where you can just go and wing it. We have seen it all, including people who think they can do it on the cheap, and are confronted with “obstacles” such as being kidnapped and detained (or disappearing, as has happened)…and we can simply not go into these regions without enough budget, local forces and fixers, and organization to be able to resolve any kind of dangerous situation quickly and effectively with local leverage. It is vital that this is understood, and understood crystal clear.

Any tour requires a lot of logistics if you want to run your tour safely and securely. We carefully select our clients too as we already dealt with clients who got arrested for filming or wandering off or not taking rules seriously, or sucked everyone on our staff into their bad behavior and preventable problems as they don’t understand the reality of the country and disobeyed the trip rules. All of our clients have to sign our program, our booking terms and conditions and our waiver, without exception, after which you’ll have to do a video screening with us and we will decide if you can participate or not, as we value our safety and our guests’ safety as well. This is not a country where you can mess around, and guests will take this soberly and seriously or they won’t be traveling with us. Even if you are “the client,” it goes by our rules or you must leave and not endanger anybody else. Any kind of tour will be extremely expensive compared to other destinations already, but it will also be extremely miserable in infrastructure, comfort and ease of interior movement.

We coordinate all of our tours with the authorities (and often directly with the Minister of Tourism for tours in the DRC) as we only do things by the book. We have a small, dedicated, experienced spec ops team and a broad network of local fixers, guides, befriended village chiefs and authorities. We specialize in custom expeditions in isolated places, exclusive VIP-tours using private planes or helicopters, arrange all security and can pretty much set up anything. We have organized complicated tours such as glamping mountain bike trips for high-profile clients with 25 staff including a doctor, mechanic, a private chef, masseuses, security and more making our way through the jungle on motorbikes each day so the clients would arrive at a beautiful well-organized glamping spot in the middle of the forest ; Many missions for Google in deep marshlands and abyssal zone jungles and truly truly isolated places for connecting the remote populations as well as bringing internet lasers to connect the Congo-River for the Taara project of Google X ; We also know the drill on how to get film permits, assist film crews as we have been involved in several projects for either the local government or foreign companies and journalists. We have even evacuated actual security companies, whereas we are the ones doing their evacuation.

We are the only agency who can do these kinds of trips in the Congo. Do not let any foreign “all Africa” trip reseller, imposter or fake agency, the internet and self-aggrandizing / misreporting strange solo travelers, or veteran nomads with no life experience in the wilderness or bush tell you otherwise. There is a large self-congratulatory “hacking the destination” community of reinforced social media support for figuring out trips as you go but spending very little while traveling as an achievement. In real life, Congo always wins, and is the Africa of Africa…. – It’s also the last great adventure possibly in the modern world…

We screen very seriously for trips and deployments but we are the real deal. If you are very serious about this, we can schedule a video call. 

Welcome to Africa’s Last Frontier…