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Uganda in March travel guide.March sits at the hinge point of Uganda’s annual weather cycle — the month when the dry season’s reliable sunshine and firm road surfaces give way to the long rains that run through April and May, and the month that many Uganda safari guides reflexively place in the “challenging season” column without acknowledging the very real […]

Best weekend trips from Kigali.Kigali is one of the finest weekend trip bases in Africa — a compact, well-organised capital city positioned within two to four hours’ drive of gorilla trekking, savannah game drives, chimpanzee forests, highland lakes, and a lakeside town on one of Africa’s most beautiful inland seas. No other city on the continent places this range of […]

Kigali airport car rental guide.Collecting a rental car at Kigali International Airport is the first practical step of a Rwanda or Uganda self drive circuit, and getting it right — the right vehicle collected with the right documentation, from the right point in the arrivals hall, with a proper handover briefing before the first turn onto the airport exit road […]

Kigali to Queen Elizabeth safari.A Queen Elizabeth National Park safari planned from Kigali is one of the most rewarding cross-border wildlife itineraries in East Africa — a three to five day circuit that begins in Rwanda’s clean, well-organised capital, crosses into Uganda through the Katuna–Gatuna border in under two hours, and arrives at a national park that holds more than […]

Camping equipment for safari.Packing camping equipment for a Uganda self drive safari requires a different approach from packing for a European or North American camping trip, because Uganda’s national parks present conditions that vary more dramatically from site to site than most camping destinations on other continents. The valley floor of Murchison Falls National Park reaches 35 degrees Celsius in […]

Rooftop tent safaris Uganda.A rooftop tent safari in Uganda is the purest expression of the self drive camping format — a 4×4 vehicle with a folding tent mounted directly on the roof rack, a mattress already inside, and the ability to pull off a game circuit track at the end of an extraordinary wildlife day and sleep elevated above the […]