Uganda in February road trips.February occupies a sweet spot in the Uganda safari calendar that not enough self drive visitors know about. It is the final full month of the short dry season — conditions are still dry and firm across most of the country, wildlife viewing is at its peak across all the major savannah parks, gorilla trekking trails […]

Uganda in January for self drivers.January is one of the most underrated months to visit Uganda as a self drive visitor — sitting squarely inside the short dry season that runs from December to February, it combines excellent road conditions, reliable wildlife viewing, good gorilla trekking weather, and significantly lower visitor numbers than the peak June to September window. The […]

Kigali to Lake Bunyonyi.The drive from Kigali to Lake Bunyonyi is one of the most beautiful cross-border road journeys in East Africa — a route that carries you from Rwanda’s immaculate, hill-terraced capital through the dramatic highlands of the Virunga foothills, across the Uganda border at Katuna, and into the steep Kigezi highlands that frame one of the most visually […]

Camping in Queen Elizabeth national park.Camping in Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of Uganda’s most rewarding bush experiences — a chance to sleep inside one of East Africa’s most biologically diverse parks, surrounded by the sights and sounds of a wilderness that operates on its own terms from dusk to dawn. Queen Elizabeth National Park covers over 1,978 square […]

Best campsites in Uganda.Uganda’s national parks and wilderness areas are home to some of the finest campsites in East Africa — places where the distance between your sleeping bag and the surrounding wildlife is measured in metres rather than kilometres, and where the sounds of the African night are the only alarm clock you need. From riverside sites on the […]