Best 4×4 vehicles for Uganda.Choosing the right 4×4 vehicle for a Uganda self drive safari is one of the most important decisions you will make in the entire trip planning process — and it is one where getting it right makes the difference between a confident, comfortable road trip and an anxious one. Uganda’s roads range from the smooth, fast […]

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 […]