Saadani National Park
Where the bush meets the beach
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 […]
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 […]
Lake Manyara National Park
Groundwater forest and flamingo shores
Kilimanjaro National Park
Standing on the roof of Africa
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