Hakuna Matata Tours is a successful, and reputable safari and tour company operated by Kennedy Nari and his wife Desange employing a team of professional local tour guides across the region.

Kennedy views himself as a citizen of the Great Lakes Region of Africa being born in Congo, just 500 metres from the Ugandan and 10 km from the Rwandan borders, providing Kennedy with an international perspective from a very early age.  Kennedy completed his secondary education in Goma.  Goma is the administrative and business centre of east Congo, nestled on the Rwandan border. Here, Kennedy benefited from further cultural exchanges, forging yet more international community ties, this time with Rwanda, adding to his sense of being an international citizen while gaining the prized Diploma in Accountancy and Finance.  Kennedy then moved to Kenya to spend two intensive years studying English, returning to Congo in 2003 as peace began to flourish.

A growing number of adventure tourists began arriving in Goma hoping to explore the wildlife especially within Virunga National park and the stunning landscapes around and on Nyiragongo Volcano.  Kennedy became a well-known guide and translator, one of the few with fluent English in addition to Lingala, Swahili, Kinyarwanda and French.

As his reputation grew among tourists and journalists who had began to specifically look for him, Kennedy established an association bringing together local tour guides, fixers and a range of service providers, and finally establishing the first tour company operating in Eastern Congo, Hakuna Matata Tours in 2004 with his wife, a graduate in Computer Science. Offering tours in Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, Hakuna Matata Tours, now offering tours in six of the African Great Lake countries, has experienced steady growth over the past four years with branch offices now open in Burundi, and Uganda.

Ben Lewis from USA and her girl friends traveled with us in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda last year.

"After successfully making it down the volcano without killing ourselves, Kennedy took us into Goma for lunch and then to the Green Lake

Kennedy, owner of Hakuna Matata Tours, saved our trip about 10,000 times. Great, great person. Go to DRC, and go with Kennedy".

Kline

IN THE NEWS AND ASSOCIATION

Hakuna Matata tours is a proud member of the ACOT (Congo travel association) and to have been recognized by the Eye Rwanda the COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa), the Bradt travel guide book (page 83), as a registered tour company with good reputation. We are also pround to have appeared in the New York times Magazine, France 24 Television, TV5, le batisseur daily Congo news pepper and more...

BEN WITH KENNEDY AT THE RIM CRATER OF NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO IN CONGO

                              Our partners, Clients and Friends.

ULTRA MAGIC BALLOONS

Joseph M LIADO, The General manager and aeronautical engineer of Ultra Magic Ballons, traveled with us from Congo to Uganda recently. His feed back Hello Kennedy! Also we felt very comfortable with our short stay in Congo being with you. I hope one day I ll do it, we can come back again and climb the Nyiragongo with you. This remains still on my wish list. Please if you change email adress, tell me so that I can keep the contact. Hope you have a good work and the situation for you and your family is okey.. Best regards, Josep M Tel +34938042202 fax 34938035604 email jm@ultramagic.com web www.ultramagic.com SPAIN Ultra magic Balloons is one of the leading and largest balloon manufactures in the word.

PAUL VAN URK

Hi Kennedy, It is good to hear from you again. How are you doing? I hope you are well and doing that wonderful thing you did for us. Showing us the way in congo to the gorillas. You are a wonderful and intelligent person and I hope that a lot of people will find you and make use of your services. You deserve it. Paul from Amsterdam/ Holland. He tracked Mountain Gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC with us in 2007. meet him at Facebook

TRVELINXS.CO.UK

Twenty-One Years Of Travel (ogues) 1986 - 2007 Chris is a real Traveler, who has traveled in around 100 countries in the word. I just got a chance of meeting him in Bunagana and he traveled with us form the Uganda border up to Goma / DRC. on one of his travel page he just write about the experiance he had with us " I met a Congolese named Kennedy (of hakunamatatatours), who spoke fairly good English and was a mine of information. After an hour of chatting it transpired that not only was he a member of Virtual tourist (KennedyRW), but he had replied to a question I had posted on the Congo just a couple of weeks previous. I could stay at his mothers home, a wonderfully paternal lady dressed in the typical Congolese dress and head wrap of vibrant colors, similar to that found in West Africa..." www.travelinxs.co.uk email travelinxs@yahoo.co.uk ENGLAND

DANIELLE VERBUEKEN

She has an administrative job in the University of Antwerp Belgium since 1978. and She is a member of the volontarian group called Karibu, which organizes activities for Phd and foreiners students / lecturers / professors and their families. For quiet a long time, her advice was of a great importance to our economical stand of our business. Email: irisbe@yahoo.com web: www.karibu.fotki.com

KATIES HOLMES

Katies she is a prominent traveler from New Zealand, she has visited over 145 cities in 65 countries in Africa and other parts of the world. She traveled with our company in Congo Drc when she came to visit Gorillas, and helped us to establish our business. She is a facebook members.

SABRINA MUST

Hey kennedy. I saw the link to the tour website. it looks GREAT!!!!! I just finished making my website that displays all my photography and writing samples. CHeck it out, has my best photos from Rwanda and the DRC. www.sabrinamust.com Subrina was one of our client this year, She visited Goma with us after Gorilla tracking in Rwanda. You can check some of her photos on her personal website