Adventures
Seven journeys.
Uganda packs an extraordinary range of wildlife into a small, green country. Half the world’s mountain gorillas. The densest population of chimpanzees in East Africa. Tree-climbing lions in the fig forests of Ishasha. Over a thousand bird species, including the prehistoric-looking shoebill stork.
These seven trips are the ones I keep returning to — the encounters and landscapes I trust to deliver something honest, even on a quiet day. Most travelers combine three or four of them into a single ten- to fourteen-day loop: a primate forest, a savanna park, a lake, a wetland.
I build trips small (usually two to six guests), unhurried, and around what you most want to see. Tell me whether you came for the gorillas, the birds, the cats, or all three — and I’ll plan around that, not around a fixed itinerary.
Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi
A morning trek through one of Africa's oldest rainforests to spend a regulated hour seven metres from a habituated mountain gorilla family in the Bwindi mist.
Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale Forest
A dawn walk into East Africa's densest chimpanzee forest, following pant-hoots through the canopy until you find the troop and spend an hour at their pace.
Murchison Falls Safari & Nile Boat Cruise
Two unhurried days pairing dawn game drives across the Buligi plains with an afternoon boat cruise to the foaming base of the falls — where the entire Nile squeezes through a seven-metre gap and drops 43 metres.
Queen Elizabeth: Tree-Climbing Lions & the Kazinga Channel
Two days searching the fig trees of Ishasha for lions stretched along the branches, then a Kazinga Channel boat cruise through the densest hippo population on earth.
Shoebill Birding at Mabamba Swamp
A few unhurried hours in a dugout canoe, gliding through papyrus channels outside Entebbe in search of the prehistoric-looking shoebill stork — perfect bookend to a longer safari.
Sipi Falls Hiking & Coffee Tour
A 7 km loop linking three waterfalls on the slopes of Mount Elgon, capped with an Arabica coffee tour from a Bagisu farmer — bean to brew, in the village where it grew.
Lake Bunyonyi & Cultural Encounter
After the muddy adrenaline of Bwindi, a restorative lake stop — dugout-canoe paddling between 29 islands, a swim in safe water, and an afternoon with a Batwa community.