Driving rules in Uganda.Uganda is one of East Africa’s most rewarding self drive destinations, and its roads — particularly the main highways connecting Kampala to the national parks — are in better condition than many first-time visitors expect. But like any country, Uganda has its own set of traffic laws, road conventions, and practical driving realities that every self drive […]

Entebbe to Bwindi self drive.For many visitors to Uganda, the journey begins at Entebbe International Airport — and for those with a gorilla trekking permit at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park already booked, the most rewarding and most flexible way to make that journey is by self drive. The road from Entebbe to Bwindi is one of Uganda’s great self drive […]

Kampala to Queen Elizabeth national park.The drive from Kampala to Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of Uganda’s great road journeys — a south-western sweep through the heart of the country that passes equatorial farmland, the shores of Lake Victoria’s inland bays, the cattle plains of Ankole, and finally the dramatic edge of the Albertine Rift Valley before depositing you […]

Kampala to Murchison falls road trip.The road trip from Kampala to Murchison Falls National Park is one of the finest drives in Uganda — a journey that pulls you steadily out of the capital’s urban energy and into the rolling, papyrus-fringed landscapes of central Uganda before delivering you to the dramatic northern savannah and the thundering Nile waterfall that gives […]

Self drive Kidepo valley national park.Kidepo Valley National Park is Uganda’s most remote national park, and for the self drive visitor willing to make the journey, it is also the most spectacularly rewarding. Tucked into the extreme northeast of Uganda on the borders of South Sudan and Kenya, Kidepo occupies a semi-arid valley of sweeping, mountain-fringed savannah that looks and […]