Most people planning a Uganda safari spend months thinking about the gorilla permits, the lodges, the parks, and the itinerary. The packing list gets done in the final week, often at midnight, in a mild panic.Packing well for a Uganda safari is not complicated. It does not require expensive specialist gear or...
Culinary Tours in Uganda: Uganda's culinary tourism is growing fast, and it deserves more attention than it typically gets. The country grows some of the finest arabica coffee in Africa. It produces matooke the green banana staple that is to the Baganda what rice is to Japan in more varieties than most visitors knew existed....
Best Five Gorilla Safari Lodges in Uganda: Choosing where to stay for gorilla trekking in Uganda matters more than it might for most other safari destinations. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has four separate trekking sectors and these include Buhoma, Ruhija, Rushaga, and Nkuringo and they are not close to each other.A lodge...
The Rwenzori gets under a thousand visitors a year, compared to fifty thousand for Kilimanjaro. That relative obscurity means most of the gear articles written for African mountain trekking are calibrated for the dry volcanic cone of Kilimanjaro rather than for a mountain range that generates its own weather, sits inside a...
Group safaris in Uganda are among the most popular and most varied experiences we organize. What makes Uganda work for groups is the same thing that makes it work for solo travelers’ enormous variety in a compact geography, world-class wildlife encounters, and an infrastructure that has quietly improved to a point where even large groups...
Guide to Uganda Game Drive Tours : Uganda game drive tours offer something that the more famous East Africa safari destinations often cannot: genuine quietude. There are no queues of safari vehicles at a lion sighting. No competition for the best viewpoint above the Kazinga Channel. No crowds around the waterhole in the Narus Valley...
There are compelling reasons to choose Uganda for gorilla trekking over Rwanda, and there are compelling reasons to do Uganda's gorilla trek even if you have already done Rwanda's. Here is a number of Reasons why you should trek gorillas in Uganda The $800 Gorilla Permit Is the Most Affordable in East AfricaThe...
The Best Place to Go for Gorilla Trekking in Uganda: "Gorilla trekking" in Uganda refers to the hike in the mist forests in search of mountain gorillas. Gorilla trekking is an activity that involves travelers hiking through the mountainous and dense forested tropical rainforests, searching for the mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Uganda only...
