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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
