Uganda road trip for couples.Uganda is one of the finest safari destinations in the world for two people travelling together, and the self drive format suits a couple better than almost any other travel configuration. A hired 4×4 with two people sharing the costs, sharing the driving, and setting their own pace through a country of extraordinary landscapes and wildlife […]

Kigali to queen Elizabeth national park.The drive from Kigali to Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the great cross-border self drive journeys in East Africa — a route that begins in Rwanda’s immaculate capital, crosses the Katuna–Gatuna border into Uganda’s southwestern highlands, passes through the dramatic crater lake and highland scenery of Kabale and the Kigezi region, and arrives […]

Self drive semliki national park.Semliki National Park is the most unusual and most undervisited national park in Uganda — a hot, ancient lowland rainforest pressed against the Democratic Republic of Congo border at the base of the Rwenzori Mountains in the Albertine Rift Valley, sheltering bird species found nowhere else in Uganda and geological features that belong to a different […]

Self drive Kibaale forest national park.Kibale Forest National Park is the chimpanzee trekking capital of Africa — a dense, ancient equatorial rainforest in western Uganda that shelters the highest concentration of primates on the continent and offers the most reliable chimpanzee encounter available anywhere in the world. Over 1,500 chimpanzees live within Kibale’s 795 square kilometres of forest and derived […]

Self drive Lake Mburo National Park.Lake Mburo National Park is the most accessible national park in Uganda — a compact, richly stocked savannah reserve set across five lakes and rolling acacia woodland approximately 228 kilometres from Entebbe and 240 kilometres from Kampala on a predominantly tarmac approach road. The journey from Entebbe takes three and a half to four hours […]