Kanangorok Hot Springs
Kanangorok Hot Springs: Kanangorok is located about 30 to 40 kilometers north of Apoka, and the drive alone runs one and a half to two hours each way over rough terrain, meaning a half-day commitment at minimum once you arrive in time at the springs. If you're spending only one night at Kidepo,...
Mount Elgon Hiking Trails
Mount Elgon Hiking Trails: Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano rising to 4,321 meters at Wagagai Peak, and it holds the distinction of possessing the largest volcanic caldera surface area in the world, which is 40 square kilometers of high-altitude basin ringed by peaks. None of that requires technical climbing skill. What it requires...
Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel
Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel: A boat cruise at Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth national park needs no skill, no fitness, and no hiking boots, just two hours, a decent camera, and patience for the traffic jam of wildlife that gathers along both banks like it is the only water source for...
Hiking Trails in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Hiking Trails in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of the finest hiking destinations in East Africa, with a network of forest trails that most travelers walk right past on their way to the trailhead. This is a forest that has existed continuously for over 25,000 years, one of the few...
Endangered Primates in Uganda
Endangered Primates in Uganda: Uganda holds a genuinely unusual position in African wildlife tourism. It's a country roughly the size of Oregon that carries more primate diversity than anywhere else on the continent, and within that diversity sit four species carrying real conservation weight; mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, golden monkeys, and the Ugandan red colobus.Seeing any...
Where to Go for Photography Safaris in Uganda
Where to Go for Photography Safaris in Uganda: The photography on a Uganda safari is not the kind that happens from a kilometer away with a 600mm lens trained on a pride scattered across the Masai Mara horizon. Uganda's encounters are close and often loud and frequently unexpected. A silverback looks up from feeding and...
What Is the Best Country to Do Gorilla Trekking In Africa
What Is the Best Country to Do Gorilla Trekking In Africa: Mountain gorillas live in only three countries on earth, that is; Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The question of which country is best for gorilla trekking is one we get asked regularly, and the honest answer is that it depends. Not...
Top 10 Activities to Do on Your Uganda Safari
Top 10 Activities to Do on Your Uganda Safari: Uganda is one of the most varied safari destinations in Africa, and it often takes a trip here to understand exactly how varied it is. You can spend a morning on foot in dense forest watching a mountain gorilla family go about their day, spend the...
Park Entry Fees for Murchison Falls National Park
Park Entry Fees for Murchison Falls National Park: Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda's oldest and largest protected area, covering approximately 3,840 square kilometers of savannah, woodland, and riverine habitat in the country's northwest. The park is home to the Victoria Nile, which forces its entire volume through a seven-meter gap in...
Guide to Tipping on a Uganda Safari
Guide to Tipping on a Uganda Safari: Uganda has no formal tipping culture in the way that some countries do. Nobody will chase you down the road if you do not tip. Staff in Ugandan lodges and parks will not make you feel awkward about it. But within the tourism industry, tips are expected in...
Best Places to See Lions in Uganda
Best Places to See Lions in Uganda: This guide covers all three of Uganda's lion habitats: Queen Elizabeth National Park including the Ishasha sector, Murchison Falls National Park, and Kidepo Valley National Park. It covers where to find lions in each park, what the sighting experience is like, what to combine your...
10 Birds to Spot on a Birding Safari in Rwanda
10 Birds to Spot on a Birding Safari in Rwanda: Rwanda has over 700 recorded bird species in a country the size of Wales, and 29 of those species are Albertine Rift endemics found only in the narrow band of Afromontane forest running along the western edge of the Great Rift Valley. For a serious...
Horseback Safaris in Lake Mburo National Park
Horseback Safaris in Lake Mburo National Park: A horseback safari in Lake Mburo National Park gives you something different. You move through the same landscape at the pace of the animal you are riding.Lake Mburo National Park is the only national park in Uganda where horseback safaris are available,...
Things to Do at Uganda Wildlife Education Centre
Things to Do at Uganda Wildlife Education Centre: The Uganda Wildlife Education Centre is located in Entebbe town, along the northern shore of Lake Victoria in Wakiso District, about 36 kilometers southwest of Kampala and approximately 10 kilometers from Entebbe International Airport. Entebbe itself sits on a peninsula that extends into Lake Victoria, the world's...
Road Trips in Uganda
Road Trips in Uganda: Uganda rewards overland travel in a way that its international reputation does not fully prepare you for. Most visitors know about the mountain gorillas in Bwindi and the boat cruise at Murchison Falls. Fewer visitors know how good the drive from Kampala to Fort Portal...
Road Trips in Rwanda
Road Trips in Rwanda: Rwanda's roads are among the best-maintained in the East African region. The main highways connecting Kigali to Musanze in the northwest, Kigali to Huye in the south, and Kigali to the eastern border at Akagera are fully sealed tarmac in good condition. The speed limit is 80 km/h...
Cultural Tours in Rwanda: Discover the Heart and Soul of the Land of a Thousand Hills
Rwanda's cultural tourism scene is not a set of heritage sites preserved behind glass. It is living, evolving, and directly connected to the people who carry the country's traditions forward every day.This guide covers Rwanda's cultural tours comprehensively the historical sites, the community experiences, the crafts, the performing arts, the memorials that...
Uganda Big 5 Safaris: Your Complete Guide to Africa’s Most Iconic Wildlife in the Pearl of Africa
Uganda Big 5 Safaris: Your Complete Guide to Africa’s Most Iconic Wildlife in the Pearl of Africa: Uganda has lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, and rhino. The country had all five before the political chaos of the 1970s and 1980s devastated wildlife populations across the region. Today, four of the Big Five lion, leopard, elephant, and...
Uganda Family Safaris
Uganda family safaris, taking a family to Africa for a safari is one of those trips that sounds more complicated than it is. The flights are long, the parks are far from the airport, and the activities you have read about all seem to have age restrictions attached. Uganda, in particular, comes up in making...
Where to Do Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda?
Rwanda holds approximately a third of the world's remaining mountain gorilla population. The current global count sits at just over 1,000 individuals, which makes every family group you might visit on a Rwanda gorilla trek part of one of the rarest wildlife populations on earth.The country has positioned itself as the primary destination for...