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 Mgahinga Gorillas and Golden Monkeys

Golden monkeys and mountain gorillas in the bamboo forests of the Virungas, starting and ending in Kigali.

3 Days Lake Mburo Walking and Horseback Safari

Zebra, eland and leopard on foot, on horseback and by boat, only four hours from Entebbe.

3 Days Bwindi Gorillas and Lake Bunyonyi

Fly into Bwindi, spend an hour with a mountain gorilla family, then unwind on the islands of Lake Bunyonyi.

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 […]

Musanze

Musanze, once called Ruhengeri, is the busy market town at the foot of the Virunga volcanoes and the gateway to Volcanoes National Park. Most travellers pass through on their way to the lodges near Kinigi, but the town rewards a few hours of your time. Its market is one of the liveliest in the north, […]

Volcanoes National Park

Volcanoes National Park covers the Rwandan side of the Virunga Massif, a chain of volcanoes shared with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is only about 160 km², but it is one of the most important places on earth for mountain gorillas. The park began life in 1925 as part of Albert National […]

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 […]

Lake Mutanda

Lake Mutanda lies near Kisoro in south west Uganda, a quiet lake of small islands and inlets with the Virunga volcanoes, Muhavura, Mgahinga and Sabinyo, standing across the southern sky. It is close to both southern Bwindi and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. Mutanda is a good base for gorilla trekking in the Rushaga sector or […]

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

Mgahinga is Uganda’s smallest national park and one of its most beautiful, covering the northern slopes of three extinct Virunga volcanoes: Muhabura, Gahinga and Sabinyo. It adjoins Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Virunga in Congo, and together they protect one continuous mountain habitat for gorillas. The park has one habituated gorilla family, which means […]

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 […]