Uganda is often called the more affordable side of East African safari, but "affordable" is relative. A budget self-drive trip and a luxury gorilla-and-lodge itinerary can differ by thousands of dollars per person — and most of that gap comes ...[ read more ]

There's a moment on every gorilla trek in Uganda when the forest suddenly goes quiet, your ranger raises a hand, and there — through the tangle of vines and undergrowth — is a wild mountain gorilla, close enough to hear ...[ read more ]

Planning a trip to Uganda usually starts with the same question: how are you actually going to get around? Between gorilla trekking in Bwindi, game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park, and long stretches of murram road in between, your ...[ read more ]

Uganda is often called the Pearl of Africa, and for good reason: it's one of the only places on Earth where you can trek face-to-face with mountain gorillas in the morning and watch tree-climbing lions from a game drive vehicle ...[ read more ]

Uganda's history stretches from Iron Age kingdoms to nineteenth-century religious martyrdom to the fight against the slave trade, and much of that story is still visible on the ground today. Royal tombs, ancient earthworks, colonial-era forts, and pilgrimage shrines sit ...[ read more ]

Uganda isn't only about gorilla trekking and game drives. Around the town of Jinja, where the Nile River begins its journey out of Lake Victoria, in the hills of Sipi Falls in the east, and up in the glacier-capped Rwenzori ...[ read more ]