Direct Ugandan Operator·Kampala & Entebbe
Classic savannah
Uganda's savannah parks are emptier than Kenya's or Tanzania's and just as productive, while the boat cruises give you something the Mara cannot.
Uganda does not have the Serengeti migration and we will not pretend otherwise. What it has instead is space: on a morning game drive in Kidepo or the Ishasha sector you will frequently see no other vehicle at all, which changes the character of every sighting.
It also has water. The Kazinga Channel and the Victoria Nile deliver two-and three-hour boat cruises through the densest hippo and crocodile concentrations in Africa, with elephant and buffalo coming down to drink at eye level from the boat. No East African savannah park offers that.
Uganda holds all five, but not in one park. Lion, elephant and buffalo are straightforward across Murchison and Queen Elizabeth. Leopard is present in both and in Lake Mburo, and seen most reliably on night drives.
Rhino is the one that needs planning: the entire national population lives at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, tracked on foot, which sits exactly halfway on the drive to Murchison Falls. Include Ziwa and a Uganda itinerary completes the Five.
The efficient shape is a loop: Kampala north to Ziwa and Murchison, west and south through Kibale to Queen Elizabeth, then Bwindi and back via Lake Mburo. Ten days covers it at a civilised pace and that is our 10-Day Grand Expedition.
If you want Kidepo (and any second-time visitor should), we fly you in rather than lose two days each way on the road.
Ready-made routes
Kibale chimpanzee trekking, Kazinga Channel cruise and Queen Elizabeth game drives.
Murchison Falls, Kibale, Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi: the complete Uganda story.
Where you'll go
Where the entire Nile is forced through a 7-metre gorge
Kazinga Channel cruises and the tree-climbing lions of Ishasha
Uganda's most remote and most cinematic wilderness
The only place in Uganda to track wild rhino on foot
The compact savannah park: Uganda's easiest short add-on
Other ways to travel
Permits are limited
Tell us your dates and we'll confirm live permit availability and lodge allocations, then send a costed, tailor-made itinerary, usually within the hour.
