Rwenzori Mountains National Park. Long before the age of maps and satellite imagery, ancient geographers wrote of a great range of snow-capped mountains deep in the heart of Africa that gave rise to the Nile. They called them the Mountains of the Moon. What they described — and what explorers eventually confirmed in the nineteenth century — were the Rwenzori […]

Mount Elgon National Park. On the eastern border of Uganda, where the land rises dramatically from the flat plains of the east into a world of ancient forest, bamboo, moorland, and alpine heath, stands one of Africa’s most extraordinary and least-visited natural wonders. Mount Elgon is an extinct volcano estimated to be 24 million years old, and it holds the […]