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Avatar icon Tara Visited: February 2015 Reviewed: Apr 16, 2015

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Uganda is the best part of Africa!! The people are the most hospitable, the geography is lush and green, the animals to see are amazing!

Male avatar icon Sputnikboy Italy flag IT       Visited: February 2013 Reviewed: Apr 16, 2015

20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Uganda is a particular safari destination: if you're looking for the big five this isn't the best place to go. On the other hand Uganda offered me a diversity of experiences, nature and wildlife that few other countries in the world can offer in my opinion.
You can have a typical safari trip in either Murchinson Falls NP or Queen Elizabeth NP, but I much more preferred the trekking on the wild Rwenzori mountains (my favourite place in Uganda), where in one day you can go from rainforest, to bamboo forest, to alpine vegetation. Kibale offers more rainforest with monkeys, chimps, butterflies, insects and plenty of birds. Bwindi is a world premiere destination to track the gorillas, a truly amazing experience that I HIGHLY reccomend to anybody. I went also to Mgahinga NP to track the golden monkeys: another underrated experience. The track at the foot of the Virunga mountains is beautiful and the monkeys are very cute and funny to watch.
In Jinja the adrenaline activities
Read more like rafting the Nile rapids was exhilarating, but there are many more to do.
And after all this, when I needed to chill out from these emotions, I headed to the shores of Lake Bunyonyi to dip into its waters and have an easy paddle with a canoe doing some islands hopping.
For these reasons I highly recommend Uganda as a destination for nature lovers.
Female avatar icon Debbie Stewart United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: February 2015 Reviewed: Apr 15, 2015

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

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The Country is so lush and green and is packed full of wildlife wherever you look. The rolling hills and mountain scenery is stunning to wake up to, it's not over crowded and the lodges are all small taking on only a handful of guests at a time. There are birds galore even just in the hotels surrounding gardens and numerous other reptile, butterfly and primate species just doing what it does everyday and you get a real feel of nature and serenity.

Male avatar icon KVaughn49 United States flag US       Visited: March 2015 Reviewed: Apr 11, 2015

50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Our experience there was unforgettable!

Male avatar icon KVaughn49 United States flag US       Visited: March 2015 Reviewed: Apr 11, 2015

50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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I was not disappointed in experiencing the wildlife and other animals, as well as the scenery of Uganda! My Nikon experienced over 1800 'clicks'! The photography was phenomenal!

Male avatar icon Jesús-Loriente Spain flag ES       Visited: September 2014 Reviewed: Oct 24, 2014

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

Best african country to mix scenery, wildlife and people

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We were a group of six spanish adults who went for 13 days to sipy falls, kidepo valley, murchinson falls and kampala, with Matoketours, have to say the trip was lovely, perfectly organiced, the people is very friendly, a variety of hotels, good food and a excepcional guide-driver
A great trip in a fantástic country

Male avatar icon Marcel Abraas Netherlands flag NL       Visited: May 2008 Reviewed: May 14, 2014

35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Wildlife: awesome! For Bwindi, mostly, of course, although I can imagine someone interested in birds could have fun in Kabale. I plan to go back there some day for other parks, to see the 'big five', as I didn't get a chance to do a 'regular safari' last time.
Scenic beauty: equally awesome! I wish I could have gone deeper into the forest, but that was up to the gorillas, not me ;) Lake Bunyonyi is also a place not to be missed - I took a 3 day trip in dugout canoes there, and the place as green as Holland. Forget the dust-filled footage you often see on TV... visit the rolling green hills in southern Uganda!
Bush vibe: travelling in a dugout canoe, a muddy motor ride, tracking gorill'as - yeah, there is certainly a bush vibe - even though both the canoe trekking and the gorilla tracking were basically very organised. It's not as if you're alone out there, but you won't be queueing to climb the volcano (another one for the to-do list!) either.

Male avatar icon Cycads Safaris Uganda flag UG       Visited: January 2013 Reviewed: Mar 15, 2014

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

Truly the Pearl of Africa

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Uganda is a very interesting safari destination- recently ranked among the top 20 must visit places in 2012 by Lonely Planet magazine, Uganda is still discovered by a few and unspoiled with a wide variety of wildlife species and amazing activities both on water and land. Uganda's star attraction is arguably the mountain gorilla in Bwindi impenetrable forest with other attractive destinations like Murchison falls, River Nile (Africa's longest river), Queen Elizabeth park and activities like white water rafting, bird watching

Female avatar icon Trui Netherlands flag NL       Visited: September 2009 Reviewed: Oct 13, 2013

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

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Uganda is really wild.

Avatar icon T Sharp Visited: July 2011 Reviewed: Jul 30, 2013

Ssesee Island Safari

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Though I was only briefly in the country of Uganda, I had to privilege to visit the Ssesee Islands while I was there. We had to take a short ferry ride to get over there, but once we arrived, the landscape was lush and fertile. We spent some time with local guides wading through the forest and wetlands in search of Sitatunga, so that we could get some rare footage of them. It was a beautiful island, and had some lovely lodges that we stayed in during our time. It was really fascinating to be able to see the hard to find Sitatunga in their natural habitat, as there are few who get to do that. It was worth a short side trip to see the islands over there, and I would highly recommend looking into that next time you are in Uganda.