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Where the Forest Wakes
A primate-led route through Kibale, Kyambura, Bwindi and the terraced water of Lake Bunyonyi.
9 days
Uganda
from USD 13,480
Open
Uganda
Roughly half the world's remaining mountain gorillas live here, alongside the highest primate diversity in East Africa and a permit price well under Rwanda's.
1.3733, 32.2903
Uganda is the country we know best, because it is the country we work from. Our office is in Kampala, our guides are Ugandan, and our licence is issued by the Uganda Tourism Board. When a permit release moves or a road washes out in the west, we hear about it the same day rather than the same month.
It is also the most varied of the four. In ten days you can spend a full working day with a habituating chimpanzee community in Kibale, sit an hour from a silverback in Bwindi, watch lions in fig trees at Ishasha, and stand in the spray where the Nile is forced through a seven-metre gap at Murchison. Very few countries hold that range inside one drivable circuit.
Where we take you.
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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
-1.0500, 29.6500
UNESCO montane rainforest holding around half the world's mountain gorillas. Four trekking sectors: Buhoma, Ruhija, Rushaga and Nkuringo. Since 2026 you book a sector rather than a named family.
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Kibale Forest
0.4833, 30.3833
Thirteen primate species and the continent's best chimpanzee viewing. The full-day Habituation Experience puts you with researchers from the dawn nest to the dusk nest.
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Queen Elizabeth
-0.1667, 29.9000
Kazinga Channel boat safaris between two lakes, and the fig-tree lions of the Ishasha sector. We sell Ishasha lions as a possibility, never a promise: the sector's population has fallen to roughly 20 to 35 animals.
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Murchison Falls
2.2500, 31.8000
Uganda's largest park, where the Nile compresses into a seven-metre gorge and drops 43 metres. Buligi peninsula game drives, Rothschild's giraffe, and a launch to the base of the falls.
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Kidepo Valley
3.8833, 33.7500
Semi-arid Karamoja, 700 km from Kampala, with two lodges and a few thousand visitors a year. The most genuinely remote place we operate.
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Lake Mburo
-0.6000, 30.9500
Small, close to Kampala, and the one Ugandan park where you walk and ride among zebra and eland with nothing between you and them.
7 journeys through Uganda.
Single-country routes and the cross-border circuits that pass through here.
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Karamoja Far Country
Uganda's most remote park, reached by air, paired with Murchison Falls and Ziwa rhino.
8 days
Uganda
from USD 14,720
Open
03
The Long Green Country
North to south across Uganda, rhino to the Nile to chimpanzees to gorillas to zebra country.
12 days
Uganda
from USD 21,340
Open
04
Nile Source and Silverbacks
Source of the Nile at Jinja, then a flight west to Bwindi and Lake Mburo.
7 days
Uganda
from USD 9,780
Open
05
Four Borders, One Rift
Bwindi, the Virungas, Laikipia, the Mara and the Serengeti in one continuous arc.
20 days
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania
from USD 38,940
Open
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Primates and Predators
Kibale chimpanzees and Bwindi gorillas, then Mara conservancies with no other vehicles.
12 days
Uganda, Kenya
from USD 18,940
Open
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Apes of the Albertine
Both gorilla populations, a chimpanzee habituation day, and golden monkeys in ten days.
10 days
Rwanda, Uganda
from USD 15,620
Open
Planning Uganda
Prices and rules here were checked against the park authorities in August 2026. We reconfirm every figure before it goes on a quotation.
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How much is a Uganda gorilla permit in 2026?
USD 800 per person for a foreign non-resident in high season, and USD 600 in the April, May and November low season. The Rushaga gorilla habituation experience is USD 1,500 and rises to USD 1,800 on 1 January 2027. Uganda Wildlife Authority requires foreign visitors to book through a licensed Ugandan operator, and since 1 March 2026 permits must be paid in full at the moment of booking rather than held.
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When is the best time to visit Uganda?
June to September and December to February are the two dry windows, and they give firmer forest trails and shorter treks. Mid-March to May is the long rains, when Bwindi becomes genuinely hard walking and western roads deteriorate. Kidepo runs against this pattern: its game concentrates on the Narus Valley water from December through March.
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Is Uganda or Rwanda better for gorilla trekking?
Uganda is cheaper and offers more besides gorillas. A permit costs USD 800 against Rwanda's USD 1,500, and the same trip can include chimpanzees, the Big Five and the Nile. Rwanda is faster: Volcanoes National Park is a two to three hour drive from Kigali, against a flight or a long drive from Entebbe. If you have under a week, choose Rwanda. If you have ten days or more, Uganda gives more per day.
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Do I need a visa for Uganda?
Yes. A single-entry Uganda e-visa is USD 50 and must be approved online in advance, typically two to five working days. If you are also visiting Rwanda or Kenya, the East Africa Tourist Visa at USD 100 covers all three for 90 days and must be applied for through the portal of your first country of entry. A yellow fever certificate is required of every traveller aged nine months and over, without exception.
Start with a month.
Tell us when you can travel and we will tell you honestly whether Uganda is the right country for those dates, or whether one of the others would serve you better.