Tours of Uganda offer once-in-a-lifetime experiences focused on outdoor adventure, with safari tours and game drives popular activities on all itineraries – along with perhaps the most famous Ugandan attraction, mountain gorilla tracking safaris where you can encounter these gentle giants in their dense jungle environment.
Gorilla tracking and the heart of African wilderness on tours of Uganda
Tours in Uganda start and end in Entebbe and Kampala, with comfortable, reliable overland vehicles fully equipped with storage, safety and viewing windows, 4X4 safari vehicles for game drives, and accommodation with flush toilets and showers combining to ensure you make the most of your Ugandan experience in comfort.
In tour comparison Uganda, you will find a serious focus on outdoor adventure, with guided mountain gorilla safaris led by certified trackers, chimpanzee trekking safari tours in Kibale National Park, game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park, and visits to tea plantations. Along with these activities, there are optional excursions like boat cruises on the Kazinga Channel, mokoro canoeing and white-water rafting.
Tours of Uganda allow you to simply sit back and enjoy the experience, with organised permits for gorilla treks, camping and cooking equipment, entrances for game drives and chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest National Park and/or Kalinzu Forest Reserve, community-based local projects and exclusive accommodation in wilderness bush camping all included.
For those looking to extend their African adventure, there are Uganda tour packages that combine with East Africa and Kenya.
Itching to plan your trip? Take a look at our tour comparison Uganda and find the right itinerary for you.
Want a taste of that insider Uganda tourism knowledge we mentioned before? We have collected the best facts from real life tour guides. Impress them on tour with how much you already know.
- Uganda is known as the ‘Pearl of Africa’, and is home to the source of the world’s second longest river, the Nile, at Jinja.
- The capital of Uganda is Kampala, while other important cities include the home of both the country’s State House and the most important international airport, Entebbe, and the tea growing hub of Fort Portal.
- Uganda’s flora and fauna is undeniably its strongest selling point, with gorilla tracking through Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, antelopes and predators at Queen Elizabeth National Park, waterfall wildlife at Murchison Falls National Park, the birdlife islands of Lake Bunyonyi, stunning beaches at Ssese Islands archipelago, 12 species of primate in Kibale Forest National Park, exotic fauna at Lake Mburo National Park, and adventure treks in the Rwenzoris ‘Mountains of the Moon’.
- The Kazinga Channel serves as a link between Lake Edward and Lake George, and is a great place to spot Nile crocodiles and hippopotamus.
- Idi Amin, Milton Obote and Yoweri Museveni are some of Uganda’s most prominent Presidents.
- Uganda’s most notable Olympic athletes include Abraham Chepkirwok, Stephen Kiprotich and John Akii Bua.
- Blu*3, and singers Lillian Mbabazi, Bebe Cool, Ragga Dee and Chameleone are all from Uganda.
- Book and movie The Last King of Scotland is based on the life of former President Ugandan Idi Amin.
- Other famous Ugandans include journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, gay rights campaigner David Kato, and comedian Anne Kansiime.
- In 2014 Uganda adopted the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, which substituted the death penalty for life in prison.
Courtney Gahan is a serial expat, traveller and freelance writer who has bartered with Moroccan marketeers, seen the sun rise at Angkor Wat and elbowed her way through crowds on NYE in NYC
