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 […]

Camping in Murchison falls.Murchison Falls National Park is one of the finest camping destinations in East Africa — a vast, ancient wilderness straddling the Victoria Nile in northwestern Uganda where lions, elephants, and giraffes move across the northern bank game circuit in numbers that rival the Serengeti, where the Nile itself crashes through a seven-metre gap in the Rift Valley […]

Fuel stations in Uganda.Fuel planning is one of the most practically important aspects of self drive safari preparation in Uganda, and it is the one area where insufficient planning can strand a vehicle in a location where the consequences go well beyond inconvenience. Uganda’s fuel station network is excellent in its cities, major towns, and on the principal highway corridors […]

How to avoid traffic fines.Avoiding traffic fines in Uganda and Rwanda is not complicated, but it does require deliberate preparation before you collect your vehicle and consistent discipline throughout every day of driving. The vast majority of traffic fines issued to self drive visitors in Uganda and Rwanda fall into a small number of completely avoidable categories — missing or […]

Speed limits in Uganda.Understanding Uganda’s speed limits before you collect your rental vehicle is one of the most practical preparations a self drive visitor can make — not because Uganda’s limits are unusually strict, but because the way speed is managed on Uganda’s roads is different from what most international visitors expect, and the consequences of getting it wrong range […]