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: 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: 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: 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...
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: 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 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 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...
