Beyond game drives — rafting, boat cruises, canopy walks, night drives, hiking, and the cultural experiences worth building in.
Start hereA boat puts you at eye level with the animals, in shade, sitting still. The Kazinga Channel, both Murchison cruises, and the six other trips worth taking — compared.
Read the guideQueen Elizabeth offers three research-led activities almost no itinerary mentions — including telemetry lion tracking at $500 and a mongoose project that's one of the best-value things in the country.
Read BlogA night-time search for one of the least-seen carnivores in Africa, from inside a vehicle with armed rangers, bring your own night-vision optics. You almost certainly won't see one.
Read BlogThere's a whole second layer of named trails in the UWA tariff that nobody books — including a walk that crosses Bwindi on foot instead of driving hours around it.
Read BlogUganda sells fishing permits for three national parks and almost no itinerary mentions it. The water below Murchison Falls is the serious one — and it holds very large Nile perch.
Read BlogUganda permits both in only a handful of parks — and Lake Mburo is the standout precisely because it has no elephants. A different set of animals, and a different relationship to the place.
Read BlogGrade five water with no experience needed — and two dams that submerged some of the famous rapids, so half the accounts online describe a river that no longer exists.
Read BlogYou don't need professional gear to bring home great safari photos — but a few simple habits make an enormous difference. How to capture what a Uganda safari actually feels like, from light to gear to gorilla-trek shooting.
Read BlogThe highest non-volcanic mountains in the world, glaciated almost on the equator, and long dismissed as legend. A guide to trekking Africa's Mountains of the Moon, and how it compares to Kilimanjaro.
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