UWEC and Entebbe Botanical Gardens: A Spare-Day Guide
Two lakeshore stops minutes from the airport, and the best answer to the arrival or departure day — especially with children too young for gorilla or chimpanzee trekking.
Read BlogGuides to Uganda's and Rwanda's national parks, lakes, forests, and towns — what's there, when to go, and how long to give each one.
Start hereHome to nearly half the world's mountain gorillas, Bwindi is the reason most people first look at a map of Uganda. The four trekking sectors, the wildlife beyond the gorillas, and how to plan a visit.
Read the guideTwo lakeshore stops minutes from the airport, and the best answer to the arrival or departure day — especially with children too young for gorilla or chimpanzee trekking.
Read BlogThe eastern tip of the Congo's Ituri forest reaching into Uganda — which is why it holds birds found almost nowhere else in East Africa, and a hot spring that boils eggs.
Read BlogA collapsed volcano with a caldera 40 km across, a 4,321 m summit, and almost nobody on it. The cheapest serious mountain trek in East Africa, and the quietest.
Read BlogUganda's rhinos were wiped out entirely by the 1980s. Ziwa is the rebuild — and the only place in the country where you walk up to a rhino on foot.
Read BlogEighty-four forested islands in Lake Victoria, and Uganda's nearest thing to a beach holiday. Honest about what they are, what they aren't, and the bilharzia question.
Read BlogTea country under the Rwenzoris, with a field of volcanic crater lakes on the doorstep — several of them swimmable, which almost nowhere else in Uganda is.
Read BlogTerraced hillsides, 29 islands, and Uganda's rare bilharzia-free, crocodile-free lake — the natural place to unwind before or after a gorilla trek. A complete guide to Lake Bunyonyi.
Read BlogUganda's smallest park, where three Virunga volcanoes meet three countries — and the only place in Uganda to trek the golden monkey. A guide to Mgahinga, its volcanoes, and its primates.
Read BlogAlmost every Uganda safari begins and ends in Kampala, but the city built across seven hills deserves more than a pass-through. History, top sights, food, and how to spend a day there.
Read BlogSavanna, wetland, crater lakes, and forest gorge in one park — Queen Elizabeth has one of the highest mammal counts in Africa. The Kazinga Channel, tree-climbing lions, Kyambura Gorge, and how to visit.
Read BlogWhere the world's longest river begins, and East Africa's adventure capital — white water rafting, bungee jumping, and the history of Speke's 1862 discovery. A guide to Jinja and how it fits your trip.
Read BlogUganda's most remote national park, and its wildest — cheetah, ostrich, and vast savanna without the crowds. What makes Kidepo different from every other Ugandan park, and how to actually get there.
Read BlogUganda's smallest savanna park is easy to underestimate — it's the only one with impala, and one of the only ones where you can walk, cycle, and ride horseback among the wildlife. A complete guide.
Read BlogKibale is the primate capital of Africa, with 13 species in one forest — chimpanzees are only the start. The park's other primates, its birding, the Bigodi Wetland walk, and how to visit.
Read BlogOn the foothills of Mount Elgon, three waterfalls tumble through coffee-growing hills. Here's how to hike Sipi Falls, tour a local coffee farm, and fit it into a Uganda itinerary.
Read BlogUganda's largest park, where the Nile explodes through a seven-metre gorge. Game drives, a boat safari to the falls, the wildlife, and how to plan a Murchison Falls trip.
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