What to Do at Lake Shakani, Akagera National Park
What to do at lake shakani, Akagera national park. Lake Shakani is located quietly in the southern section of Akagera National Park, a few kilometers northeast of the park headquarters, and it holds a distinction found nowhere else in Rwanda: it's the only lake in the country where sport fishing is permitted as a tourist...
Where to Go for Nature Walks in Uganda
Where to Go for Nature Walks in Uganda: Uganda has built a genuine walking culture into its parks, not as an afterthought to game drives and gorilla trips, but as one of the most rewarding ways to experience the country on its own terms.The challenge is that Uganda spreads this experience across ten national parks...
Accommodations in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park: A Complete Guide to Where to Stay
Accomodations in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park: A complete guide to where to stay. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is the smallest of Uganda's national parks and one of the most under-visited, tucked into the country's far southwestern corner where Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo meet across the volcanic peaks of the Virunga...
What to Do at Lake Bunyonyi
What to Do at Lake Bunyonyi: Lake Bunyonyi's name, from the local Rukiga language, translates to "place of many little birds," and the description holds up. Formed roughly ten thousand years ago when lava from the Virunga volcanic chain blocked the course of the River Ndego, the lake sits at an elevation close to 1,962...
Accommodation in Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Accommodation in Rwenzori Mountains National Park: Most people planning a Rwenzori trek spend weeks comparing routes, fitness plans, and summit statistics, and remarkably little time thinking about where they'll actually sleep each night. That's a mistake worth correcting early, because accommodation on this mountain isn't a minor logistical footnote.It's the difference between a trek that...
Where to Go Fishing in Rwanda
Where to go fishing in Rwanda. Fishing isn't the first activity most people associate with in a Rwanda trip, and that's precisely what makes it worth understanding properly for anyone with even a casual interest in wetting a line. Rwanda's lakes and rivers, from Akagera National Park's Lake Ihema and Lake Shakani...
Accommodations in Kibale National Park: A Complete Guide to Where to Stay
Kibale National Park holds the highest primate diversity of any protected area in East Africa, with thirteen species including a large, well-habituated chimpanzee community that gives Kibale a strong claim to being the best chimpanzee tracking destination on the continent.It's also a park where the accommodation landscape is more compact and more...
What Is Uganda Famous For?
What Is Uganda Famous For: When one Asks what Uganda is famous for, you will get a different answer depending on who you ask. Wildlife lovers say the mountain gorillas, half the world's remaining population lives here. Geographers point to the source of the Nile at Jinja.Foodies grin and say the Rolex,...
Birding in Murchison Falls National Park
Birding in Murchison Falls National Park: Uganda's largest and oldest national park stretches across 3,840 square kilometers of savannah, riverine woodland, papyrus swamp, and tropical forest, cut in half by the Victoria Nile as it thunders through a seven-meter gap at the falls that give the park its name.That collision of habitats produces a bird...
Birding in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Birding in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: Bwindi is world famous for mountain gorillas, and rightly so, but among serious birders the park carries a different reputation entirely. Africa's leading birding authorities have repeatedly ranked Bwindi the number one birding site on the continent, ahead of every wetland, savannah, and forest from Cape...
Batwa Cultural Tours in Uganda
Batwa Cultural Tours in Uganda: Long before Bwindi Impenetrable Forest became famous for mountain gorillas, before the first trekking permit was ever sold, the Batwa lived there. For thousands of years these forest dwelling people hunted with bows, gathered honey and wild yams, healed themselves with plants, and raised their children beneath...
A Complete Guide to Uganda’s Eco Lodges
A Complete Guide to Uganda's Eco Lodges: Most people booking their first Uganda safari focus their attention on permits, parks, and itineraries, and only think about where they're sleeping once the bigger decisions are locked in. That order gets reversed pretty quickly once you start comparing lodges here, because Uganda has quietly become one of...
Guide to Dian Fossey Hike
Guide to Dian Fossey Hike: Most travelers go to Rwanda with one activity circled in red on their itinerary and that is ‘gorilla trekking’. Fewer visitors realize that a half-day walk on the same slopes, through the same bamboo and hagenia forest, leads to the grave of the woman...
Interesting Facts About Giraffes
Interesting Facts About Giraffes: Giraffes are one of the most misunderstood animals in Africa. Most visitors know they are tall and assume that is the whole story, when in reality almost everything about a giraffe is stranger than fiction: a heart the size of a basketball, a tongue that would embarrass a lizard, a walk...
Boat Cruise in Murchison Falls National Park
Boat Cruise in Murchison Falls National Park: Winston Churchill saw it in 1907 and called this stretch of Uganda the ‘Pearl of Africa’, and Ernest Hemingway managed to crash a plane near here not once but twice in a single week in 1954, surviving both, which feels somehow appropriate for a river this dramatic.Between your...
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...