Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison Falls is Uganda’s largest national park, and its centrepiece is one of the most powerful sights in Africa: the entire flow of the Victoria Nile forcing through a gorge about seven metres wide, then dropping more than 40 metres in a roar of spray. Below the falls the river widens and slows on its […]
Kibale National Park
Kibale is the best place in East Africa to spend time with chimpanzees. Its mid-altitude rainforest holds around 1,500 of them, along with 12 other primate species, which is one of the highest densities of primates anywhere in Africa. Tracking starts from Kanyanchu, on the tarred road south of Fort Portal. You walk on fairly […]
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi is an ancient montane rainforest on the edge of the Albertine Rift, so steep and tangled that its name comes from a local word for impenetrable. It shelters almost half of the world’s mountain gorillas, and walking into the forest to find a habituated family is the reason most people come to Uganda. The […]
Lake Manyara National Park
Groundwater forest and flamingo shores
Ruaha National Park
Big lion prides in the wild south
Nyerere National Park
Boat safaris on the Rufiji River
Rubondo Island National Park
Chimpanzees on a Lake Victoria island
Serengeti National Park
The Great Migration
Tarangire National Park
Baobabs and big elephant herds
Tsavo West National Park
Lava flows, springs and red elephants
Aberdare National Park
Highland forest and night-time game viewing
Meru National Park
Joy Adamson’s wilderness