Overview Volcanoes National Park offers a photographer something few great ape destinations can: the primates and the landscape are the same shot. The five conical Virunga volcanoes sit directly behind…
Overview A standard safari moves on a schedule built around game drives and departure times. This one moves around light: dawn starts positioned for the tree-climbing lions' best window, unhurried…
Overview Traveling alone shouldn't mean choosing between an inflated private safari budget and skipping Uganda altogether. This week-long circuit through Lake Mburo, Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi is designed from the…
Overview Not every birding trip needs eight days and four habitat types. This one keeps it to two of Uganda's strongest, most reliable birding sites: the shoebill-rich papyrus channels of…
Overview Uganda is one of only three countries on earth where mountain gorillas survive in the wild, and one of very few places anywhere that also holds strong wild chimpanzee…
Overview Queen Elizabeth National Park rewards travelers who give it more than a single night, and this itinerary does exactly that: five days built entirely around the park's two signature…
Overview Uganda lost its wild rhinos to poaching decades ago, which means no single national park here can complete the Big Five on its own. This itinerary solves that by…
Overview Not every traveler wants to choose between a shared shuttle bus and a $2,000-a-night suite. This itinerary sits comfortably in between: a private vehicle rather than a shared one,…
Overview One gorilla trek changes most people. A second one, in a different forest, with a different family and a completely different backdrop, is what turns a holiday into the…
Overview Rwanda rewards travelers who give it more than a gorilla-trek-and-done itinerary. This six-day route starts in the Virunga volcanoes, cuts south through the country's rolling tea and coffee hills…