Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve
Toro-Semliki is one of Uganda’s oldest protected areas, a sweep of savannah, riverine forest and papyrus running from the Rwenzori foothills down to the southern shore of Lake Albert. It covers about 542 km² and sees few visitors, which is much of its appeal. Semliki Safari Lodge sits in the reserve and makes it easy […]
Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve
Pian Upe is a large, little-visited reserve in the south of Karamoja, in Uganda’s dry north east. It is open savannah and bushland overlooked by the volcanic hills of Kadam and Napak, and it is the only place in Uganda where you can still see roan antelope. Cheetah, ostrich and a range of dry-country species […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kidepo Valley National Park
Kidepo Valley lies in the far northeast of Uganda, close to the borders with South Sudan and Kenya. It is remote, dry and beautiful, and it feels like the Africa of old: wide valleys ringed by mountains, a sky that seems larger than anywhere else, and so few visitors that you may not see another […]
Saadani National Park
Where the bush meets the beach
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
Serengeti National Park
The Great Migration
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
A day on the crater floor
Tarangire National Park
Baobabs and big elephant herds