National Parks

This is Uganda’s only cheetah population. This is aardwolf, caracal, bat-eared fox, Guenther’s dik-dik—species found in no other Ugandan park.

Lake Mburo is Uganda’s best-kept secret.
It is not vast like Murchison. It is not famous like Queen Elizabeth. It receives a fraction of the visitors. But for the traveller who seeks intimacy—who wishes to walk the savannah at eye level, to track game on foot, to experience Africa without crowds—Lake Mburo is essential.

Murchison Falls is Uganda’s largest and oldest national park. It is defined by a single, spectacular phenomenon: The Nile, compressed from 300 metres to 7 metres, plunging 45 metres through a narrow gorge.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is Uganda’s most visited and most biodiverse protected area. Its landscapes are extraordinarily varied: savannah, wetland, forest, lake, channel, volcanic crater.

Kibale is not Uganda’s largest park. It is not its most famous. But for the traveller who seeks primates, Kibale is unrivalled anywhere on earth.

To trek here is to enter a world that predates human memory. The trees are ancient. The silence is profound. And somewhere, hidden in the thicket, a silverback regards your approach with eyes older than your species.