7 Days Best of Uganda

Murchison Falls, Kibale’s chimpanzees, Queen Elizabeth and the gorillas of Bwindi, from the Nile to the Virungas.

5 Days Kibale Chimpanzees and Semliki Valley

Chimpanzees and swamp walks in Kibale, then hot springs, shoebill and a quiet savannah in the Semliki Valley.

8 Days Uganda Gorillas and Wildlife Safari

Chimpanzees, tree-climbing lions, mountain gorillas, a lake of islands and a walking safari, all in eight days.

5 Days Uganda Luxury Safari

Rhinos on foot, Murchison Falls, chimpanzees in Kibale and gorillas in Bwindi, linked by private charter flights.

3 Days Queen Elizabeth Safari and Kazinga Channel

Game drives, the Kazinga Channel boat safari and chimpanzees in Kalinzu, with two nights at Kyambura Gorge Lodge.

Gishwati-Mukura National Park

Gishwati-Mukura is Rwanda’s newest national park, created by law in 2015 from two separate forest fragments on the Congo-Nile Divide, between the Volcanoes and Lake Kivu. Together they cover only about 34 km², but they represent one of the country’s great restoration projects. Much of Gishwati was cleared for cattle and farming in the 1990s […]

Nyungwe National Park

Nyungwe is one of the oldest montane rainforests in Africa, spread across about 1,019 km² of steep ridges in Rwanda’s south-west. It became a national park in 2004, and it protects the watershed that feeds both the Nile and the Congo. The forest is dense, tall and often wrapped in cloud, and a single road […]

Budongo Forest Reserve

Budongo is Uganda’s largest natural forest, a great block of mahogany and ironwood on the escarpment above Lake Albert, bordering Murchison Falls National Park. It has a long history of chimpanzee research and some of the tallest trees in East Africa. Chimp tracking is based at Kaniyo Pabidi on the road into Murchison, where the […]

Kalinzu Forest Reserve

Kalinzu is a forest reserve on the eastern edge of Queen Elizabeth National Park, on the road between Mbarara and the park. It is managed by the National Forestry Authority and holds a habituated chimpanzee community that has been studied by researchers for many years. It is a practical choice for travellers staying in Queen […]

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Queen Elizabeth is Uganda’s most varied savannah park, running from the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains to the Ishasha plains on the Congo border. At its centre is the Kazinga Channel, a natural waterway linking Lake George and Lake Edward, where hippos, buffalo and elephants gather at the water’s edge in remarkable numbers. The park […]

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 […]

Rubondo Island National Park

Chimpanzees on a Lake Victoria island