Destinations

Every corner of Uganda worth the drive

Ten national parks, the source of the Nile, a lake with twenty-nine islands and Africa's third-highest mountain, all inside a country the size of Britain.

National parks

Silverback mountain gorilla in dense Bwindi rainforest undergrowth

South-west Uganda

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Gorilla trekking Uganda, home to roughly half the world's mountain gorillas

Lion resting in a fig tree in the Ishasha sector, or elephants on the Kazinga Channel

Western Uganda

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Kazinga Channel cruises and the tree-climbing lions of Ishasha

The Nile exploding through the 7-metre gorge at Murchison Falls, shot from the Top of the Falls

North-western Uganda

Murchison Falls National Park

Where the entire Nile is forced through a 7-metre gorge

Chimpanzee in the canopy of Kibale Forest, or a troop on a forest trail

Western Uganda

Kibale Forest National Park

Chimpanzee trekking in the primate capital of East Africa

Zebra and impala on open acacia savannah at Lake Mburo

Western Uganda

Lake Mburo National Park

The compact savannah park: Uganda's easiest short add-on

Wide Narus Valley savannah at golden hour with the Morungole mountains behind, buffalo herd in frame

North-eastern Uganda (Karamoja)

Kidepo Valley National Park

Uganda's most remote and most cinematic wilderness

The three Virunga volcano cones (Muhabura, Gahinga and Sabyinyo) rising above Mgahinga's bamboo zone

South-west Uganda (Virunga)

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

Three volcanoes, one gorilla family, and the golden monkeys

Steam rising from the Sempaya female hot spring through dense lowland rainforest

Western Uganda

Semuliki National Park

A piece of the Congo Basin on the Ugandan side of the Rift

Southern white rhino and calf grazing in open bush, viewed at walking distance

Central Uganda (Nakasongola)

Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

The only place in Uganda to track wild rhino on foot

Mountains & adventure

Giant groundsel and lobelia in the Rwenzori afro-alpine zone with glaciated peaks and mist behind

Western Uganda

Rwenzori Mountains National Park

The Mountains of the Moon: equatorial glaciers at 5,109 metres

The main 100m drop of Sipi Falls with the Karamoja plains stretching away below at golden hour

Eastern Uganda

Mount Elgon National Park

The world's largest volcanic caldera, and the Sipi Falls below it

Lakes & rivers

A raft dropping into a grade-five rapid on the White Nile, spray up, guide and crew visible

Eastern Uganda

Jinja & the Source of the Nile

East Africa's adventure capital, where the Nile begins

South-west Uganda

Lake Bunyonyi

Twenty-nine islands, terraced hills, and the place everyone decompresses after Bwindi

Cities & gateways

A shoebill stork standing in papyrus at Mabamba Swamp, photographed from a low canoe at eye level

Central Uganda

Entebbe & Lake Victoria

Your arrival point and a genuinely good first or last day

Central Uganda

Kampala

Seven hills, a Kabaka's palace, and the largest market in East Africa

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