Night Game Drives in Uganda: A night game drive gives you the same landscape running on an entirely different shift. If this is your first African safari and you have limited days, prioritize getting your daytime game drives and gorilla or chimp permits sorted first. A night drive adds real value, but it works best...
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...
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...
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: 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...
