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Female avatar icon Guangsu Zhang Canada flag CA       Visited: February 2025 Reviewed: Mar 15, 2025

Email Guangsu Zhang  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

It was one of the most exciting experiences of my life.

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Going to Uganda to see the gorillas and chimpanzees was not easy, but the experience was super good. To protect this rare species, the Uganda National Park has invested enormous resources both to allow visitors to interact with them and to protect them well. It feels like a tourist destination worth a lifetime.

Male avatar icon Wojtek Hegglin Switzerland flag CH       Visited: January 2025 Reviewed: Mar 17, 2025

Email Wojtek Hegglin  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Once in a lifetime experience

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It was my first time in Africa. My brother and I (30 and 32) spent in Uganda 10 day. Uganda is simply a beautiful country and I can really recommend it to everyone! The people of Uganda are very friendly and I always felt safe.

We booked a tour of 10 days and we saw a lot of parks and all animals we wanted to see.

I would describe the „USP“ of Uganda as follow: It is the combination of different geographical areas that makes Uganda so diverse and beautiful. You have the safaris with the "big fives" animals, the rainforests mountains with the gorillas and Lake Victoria.

Highlight of our trip: to see the Chimpanzees and gorillas from very(!) close

Female avatar icon Natalia Greece flag GR       Visited: February 2025 Reviewed: Mar 19, 2025

Email Natalia  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Lifetime experience

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Well, from the 1st until the the last day our Super guide Kiiza as well as the nicest ever manager Geoffrey from Kashari Resort Tours and Travel, did all possible and impossible to make our trip to Uganda unforgettable. Geoffrey well arranged our 9 days tour in order to see all main spots in Uganda according with great accommodations, while Kiiza, with whom we spent 24/9 and learned so much about Uganda, nice, smile and kindest person. Gorillas , Chimpanzee, animals, lakes you will see anyhow but to spend 9 days in row with such a nice person, like Kiiza, who did above and beyond in order make your trip interesting and unforgettable, this is what really counts! Thank you so much!

Female avatar icon Beata Poland flag PL       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Mar 19, 2025

Email Beata  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

It was was the best trip among all I went there to see gorillas and I saw them

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Uganda it`s a beautifull wild country Country of thousand hills Very good hotels Delicious fresh food Smiling friendly people
I went to Uganda mainly to see gorillas and I did it!
Our guide Mr Hamza was the best guide I ever saw

Male avatar icon Stuart McKellar United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: March 2025 Reviewed: Apr 21, 2025

Email Stuart McKellar  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

A beautiful diverse country home to wonderful natural beauty and incredible people.

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I traveled in Uganda with Ngoni Safaris.
I found every aspect of this trip to exceed my expectations.
The natural beauty is truly stunning.
The people of Uganda are intoxicatingly charming; friendly, helpful with a heartfelt willingness to welcome you to their country.
I traveled to Murchison, Kibale, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi, Jinga and Entebbe.
All accommodation exceed my expectations in terms of comfort and food quality.
All accommodations were clean, friendly and wonderfully authentic.
The game drives provided me with such incredible experiences.
I was fortunate enough to see the Big 5.
Also chimpanzee communities.
And a fabulous trek to make close contact with gorillas.
And so many other species and birds.
Lake Bunyonyi was an excellent evening motorboat experience.
The source of the River Nile in Jinga was amazing.
I really can not recommend Uganda enough.
I am returning next March!

Female avatar icon Natalie Hong Kong flag HK       Visited: July 2024 Reviewed: Aug 6, 2024

Email Natalie  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Uganda is worth visiting

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My friends and I spent 12 days in Uganda in July. This was our first time to travel to the country. It is worth visiting. The people are polite and friendly. The sceneries are beautiful. There are also full of wild lives. The most unforgettable experience for me was the chimpanzees trekking and the gorilla trekking. Although it consumed rather lot of my energy, the sweat and the effort was paid off when I saw these beautiful creatures. I am also happy to see how Uganda people protect the wide lives and how they help the local community via tourist industry.

The lodges I stayed are also wonderful. Most of them are with very helpful and friendly staff. I enjoyed very much the stay in Uganda. I must not forget to mention Tubale Safaris, the travel agency. Their service is very professional and the staff are very responsible. My friends and I were taken good care of during our stay in Uganda. Our needs were addressed in a very responsible and timely manner. Ayub Munowa was our
Read more driver guide. He is amazing. He is very caring, responsible and professional. He was very sensitive to our needs and prepared us well for all the activities. He is very well-organized and plans everything well. We are so blessed to have him with us and thank him for showing us around as well as telling us a lot about the wide lives in Uganda.
Female avatar icon Val Australia flag AU       Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Oct 12, 2024

Email Val  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

A new adventure every day

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We toured Uganda for 17 days mid range accommodation. We took many game drives, launch trip on Kazinga Channel, gorillas and Chimpanzee trekking, plus visted Lake Bunyonyi and local villages. We had the most amazing holiday with many animal sightings. Accommodation was very good and food excellent.

We felt very safe whilst in Uganda.

Uganda represents great value when compared to other African Countries

Our main TIP for other travellers is not to leave any money in your room or unattended. Even if it is locked in a bag, unfortunately we had some money stolen from a locked bag which was opened and relocked so it was not evident we had money stolen.

Male avatar icon nickvp United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: July 2010 Reviewed: Jul 18, 2011

Email nickvp  |  20-35 years of age

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Uganda is not an obvious Safari destination. It's variety in scenery, people and wildlife makes it an truely recommended and unique travel, especially for someone who has already seen the big game Safari in Kenya or Tanzania. In Uganda you can see tree hanging lions in the morning and Mountain Gorillas in the afternoon, there is no other country in the world that has that. We went with drifters, a tour operator that uses very comfortable trucks (instead of jeeps) for groups up till 16 people. In my opinion, the trip was such a great experience because we camped almost every night and we had the most fantastic guide Anthony Washford to drive the truck, cook the food and plan all the excursions such as the astonishing Gorillas at Bwindi.

Female avatar icon Anonymous United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: June 2012 Reviewed: Oct 29, 2012

Email Anonymous  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Gorilla trekking Tour

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I had wanted to hire a car and drive through Uganda, but after spending over a month trying to secure gorilla tracking permits to no avail, I was told that often the Ugandan Wildlife Authority are uncooperative with individual groups of tourists as they are paid of my tour companies, whether this is true I’m not sure but I tried contacting them by both email and phone for over a month and received no correct info and was just led around in circles with false email addresses etc...
If you are situated in Uganda it’s a different ball game and it seems it’s a simple process to obtain the permits from the UWA office in Kampala. Seeing as I didn’t want to risk arriving and there being no permits left I decided to give up and book through a tour agency. In the end I’m so glad we did, we booked the permits and a driver to take us from Kampala to Queen Elizabeth National Park for a safari, on to Lake Bunyonyi for a night, down to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to track gorillas and
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All the booking and communication was done through Jackie from Katona, who was extremely helpful and answered all of my questions, gave great advice and put together multiple itineraries based on each new request, for us to look through.

When we arrived in Kampala we found the office easily and paid the balance and made some final arrangements which all went smoothly. (It’s worth noting that USD notes printed before the year 2000 and which are smaller denominations than $50 are not accepted anywhere in Uganda).

We met our driver the next morning and he was quiet but helpful throughout the trip. Overall the value for money was amazing and we got to see so much more and got a lot more packed into the time we had there. You are read about our experience in Queen Elizabeth National Park and our experience tracking gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest here, we never would have seen so much wildlife both on the safari and on the drive without our driver’s sharp eyes. We also had baggage missing from our flight when we landed and the company arranged for it to be driven down and meet us the day after the tour started, they took away all the worry and did this all completely free of charge