Safari van vs SUV.The choice between a safari van and an SUV is one of the most consequential vehicle decisions on a Uganda safari, and it is one that many visitors approach with incomplete information — assuming the larger, more visually imposing safari van is automatically the superior option without understanding the specific trade-offs that Uganda’s routes and road conditions […]

Uganda in May safari guide.May is Uganda’s most misunderstood travel month — consistently overlooked by visitors who bundle it into the long rainy season category alongside March and April and book either side of it without looking more carefully at what it actually delivers. The distinction that makes May genuinely interesting for safari planning is its trajectory: unlike April, which […]

Uganda in April self drive tips.April is Uganda’s most challenging month for self drive travel and simultaneously one of its most rewarding — a combination that only makes sense once you understand what the month actually delivers and what specific preparation makes it manageable. April sits at the peak of Uganda’s long rainy season, the wettest period of the year […]

Uganda in March travel guide.March sits at the hinge point of Uganda’s annual weather cycle — the month when the dry season’s reliable sunshine and firm road surfaces give way to the long rains that run through April and May, and the month that many Uganda safari guides reflexively place in the “challenging season” column without acknowledging the very real […]

Best weekend trips from Kigali.Kigali is one of the finest weekend trip bases in Africa — a compact, well-organised capital city positioned within two to four hours’ drive of gorilla trekking, savannah game drives, chimpanzee forests, highland lakes, and a lakeside town on one of Africa’s most beautiful inland seas. No other city on the continent places this range of […]

Kigali airport car rental guide.Collecting a rental car at Kigali International Airport is the first practical step of a Rwanda or Uganda self drive circuit, and getting it right — the right vehicle collected with the right documentation, from the right point in the arrivals hall, with a proper handover briefing before the first turn onto the airport exit road […]