Uganda Safaris

Uganda holds more mountain gorillas than any other country on earth, more than half the entire wild population, and yet it remains one of the least crowded destinations in East Africa for the travellers who come specifically to see them. In Rwanda, the gorilla experience is polished and well-trodden. In Uganda, it still feels like an expedition.

That combination of accessibility and genuine wildness defines Uganda’s appeal. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose ancient rainforest is thought to have survived the last ice age, protects seventeen habituated gorilla families across four trekking sectors. Permits here cost $800 per person (compared to $1,500 in Rwanda), and the forest itself, steep, dense, moss-draped, rewards effort in a way that feels earned. Kibale Forest National Park, sometimes called the primate capital of the world, holds the highest concentration of chimpanzees in East Africa alongside twelve other primate species.

Uganda does not yet have Kenya’s established safari infrastructure or Tanzania’s luxury tented camp density, but that is precisely its appeal for a certain kind of traveller: the sense of going somewhere genuinely off the beaten path, where the wildlife encounters feel less scripted and the landscapes less familiar. We design Uganda journeys for clients who want that feeling, and who understand that the experience of finding your assigned gorilla family deep in the forest is unlike almost anything else travel offers.

Browse our Uganda safari itineraries below, or speak to our safari designers to build a journey that takes in this remarkable, undervisited country.