Field notes, trip reports, and practical advice from the people who guide these routes.
Notes from recent trips, seasonal advice, and answers to the questions we get asked most.
UTB’s roundup of where the country is being promoted next, taking in the reopening of lesser-known reserves at home alongside a push into European source markets.
Read on Uganda Tourism Board ↗Uganda prepares to co-host the Africa Cup of Nations in 2027, and the tourism board hosted a senior delegation to talk about what that means for visitor numbers.
Read on Uganda Tourism Board ↗Explore Uganda hosts a National Geographic Traveller (UK) feature on the mountain gorillas of Bwindi and Mgahinga, and on the rangers and communities who protect them.
Read on Explore Uganda ↗Every November, grasshopper season turns roadsides into open-air kitchens. A look at how nsenene are caught, cooked, and shared, and why the season means so much.
Read on Explore Uganda ↗A first-hand account of eight days climbing Margherita Peak, at 5,109m the highest point in Uganda, through the bogs, glaciers and giant lobelias of the Rwenzoris.
Read on Explore Uganda ↗Rafting and bungee on the Nile at Jinja, the Mabira canopy zipline, climbs on Elgon and the Rwenzoris, paragliding over Bunyonyi, and abseiling the falls at Sipi.
Read on Explore Uganda ↗