Uganda User Reviews

We felt completely safe the whole time we were there (17 days). We walked around local towns without any safety concerns. We toured the whole country. We loved Kidepo National Park though it was quite a haul to get there! We are 64 and 70 years old. We hiked 10 miles up and down mountains in 5.5 hours to see the Mountain Gorillas which mind was blowing! Follow the tour guidelines though. We had long sleeves, hiking boots, long pants, leg gaiters and heavy gardening gloves which protected us. Others on the tour came in shorts, tennis shoes and no gloves and were miserable. You should be fit to undertake this tour. One person on our tour was not- got heat exhaustion and slowed the rest of the group way down until the guide made the decision to let the rest of us go on without that couple with the assist of one-armed ranger instead of two. All the national parks were outstanding. Our driver Jeck at Dav Safari was excellent and we felt completely safe with his driving and protection of us at

Read more

all times. The only thing I would add was better response time by the Safari on email returns. We paid for our gorilla permits 6 months in advance. When it got to within 4 weeks of the trip, I emailed the safari and got no response for 10 days. When you pay out money in advance and don't get a response back to an email- I started to think that maybe the company went out of business. I did email again and got a response back in 24 hours which made me breathe a sigh of relief. Travel times listed on itinerary did not match real life traveling either. We spent much more time in the land cruiser than was listed on the itinerary due to road conditions and traffic so the tour companies really should put more travel time in the itinerary. It was a trip of a lifetime! Uganda is so beautiful!!