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4.7734 / 5 4.8 /5
4.7506 / 5 4.7762 / 5 4.6350 / 5 4.6296 / 5

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Male avatar icon Fernando Spain flag ES       Visited: August 2025 Reviewed: Sep 9, 2025

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

Beautiful and friendly, but lacking a bit of wildlife.

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Uganda is a very friendly country and definitely worth the visit.

Pros:

Amazing primate wildlife: gorillas, chimpanzees and many other smaller primates (monkeys) can be easily watched.
Very good birding.
Beautiful forested hills and mountains to the West of the country.
Beautiful geographical features, like Lake Victoria, Murchison Falls, the Nile, Ruwenzori and Virunga mountains. All within reach.
Friendly people everywhere. Drivers, guides, rangers, hotel staff, all are very nice and devoted to their work.
Professional guides and drivers know their trade well.
Very good food everywhere we went.
Good lodges, although some were a bit below par for a mid-range aspiration.

Cons:

Other than primates, wildlife is unevenly present in the parks. Some lack this, some lack that, etc.
Overall, wildlife does not appear in vast numbers as it does in other countries in the region, despite
Read more censuses and claims to the contrary (they are sure true, but it just does not show on the field).
Dreadful dirt roads in the forested areas, really bad even for trained drivers with adequate 4x4 cars. Well below the standard in neighbouring countries.
Driving times can be very long on account of the state of the roads (even those on tar).
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Female avatar icon Domitilla Marchi Italy flag IT       Visited: August 2025 Reviewed: Sep 9, 2025

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

Marvelous trip

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We spent 8 days in Uganda doing a safari with Dav Safaris, it was fantastic! Saw so many animals gorillas, elephants, lions, hippos and crocodiles. The lodges were very nice and the organization perfect. The land is beautiful and the people very warm and welcoming!

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Male avatar icon Christopher Ringguth Canada flag CA       Visited: August 2025 Reviewed: Sep 16, 2025

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

Absolutely amazing country and the people are o friendly!

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Food was great, people are really friendly, no one tries to rip you off, super safe, thousand times safer than Southeast Asia or Central America. Will definitely be revisiting.

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Female avatar icon Chris Canada flag CA       Visited: August 2025 Reviewed: Sep 22, 2025

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

Stunning!

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Our safari included the chimpanzee trek in the Kibale National Forest, the savannahs in Queen Elizabeth National Park, the boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel, and the gorilla trek in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. We were so fortunate to see many, many animals; we had exceptional guides; wonderful lodgings and truly amazing experiences. The boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel was a lesson in how many species of animals can live in peaceful co-existence along with people, in the same small area of land and sea. Uganda is a stunningly beautiful country with warm and welcoming people. Our tour guides were knowledgeable, professional, went out of their way to enhance our experiences and kept us safe in every way. Thank you to Wayfairer, our travel agent and Wild Frontiers, our tour guides. Exceptional and highly recommended!

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Female avatar icon Cathy Broderick United States flag US       Visited: September 2025 Reviewed: Sep 22, 2025

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

Amazing opportunity to see gorillas in their natural habitat

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This was an amazing experience. From Murchison Falls, Kibale National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, crossing the equator twice, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Lake Bunyonyi, to Lake Mburo, this trip did not disappoint. Chimpanzee, gorilla and golden monkey trekking were the highlights for me. Being a solo traverler, Naseeb Safaris Uganda planned an incredible trip within my timeframe and budget. I had a terrific guide for the entire journey. I saw some amazing wildlife, incredible landscapes and had mostly great weather, give or take a rain shower or two. Uganda is the ultimate destination for gorilla trekking.

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Female avatar icon Jacqui Fairbrass United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: August 2025 Reviewed: Sep 26, 2025

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

Vibrant, friendly, beautiful country

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A superb mini safari with Gatsio Safaris to Murchison Falls which included a Nile Cruise and visit to the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary.
Not very crowded and a wonderful array of wildlife in the park. Beautiful Lodge at Pakuba Safari Lodge

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Male avatar icon Angel Luis Gonzalez Varea France flag FR       Visited: September 2025 Reviewed: Sep 27, 2025

Email Angel Luis Gonzalez Varea  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Amazing trip

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Uganda is an incredible travel destination for nature lovers and her wild life.
It is also a very safe and cozy country

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Male avatar icon Brian Marsh United States flag US       Visited: August 2025 Reviewed: Oct 8, 2025

Email Brian Marsh  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Put this on your bucket list, WOW.

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Just wow. We loved this entire country and their people, what lovely, helpful, humble people. We felt safe everywhere we went (walking everywhere) and enjoyed everything from their sit down restaurants to the local food, rolex. There were offers of rides on motorcycles from locals looking for work, hellos from beautiful children and wooden canoes to take across the Victoria lake, or you could catch the ferry boat and see the locals transporting anything from live chickens to anything they could grow. We took a small plane ride from Entebbe to the gorilla areas and it was also amazing and safe. Our stay in the park, dead center in the forest was just beautiful. The movie "Gorillas in the mist". came to mind every morning, an entire new beauty for us. The gorilla "hunt" (find) was long (6 hours) and as it had poured rain the night before, we sloshed in mud past our ankles towards the end of the hike. Walking through the brush also got difficult near the end of our find.
Read more But, wow-was it ever worth it. What an amazing experience coming within feet of these beautiful creatures. We watched two littles wrestling, and an annoyed mother scold them, as one took off and the other seemed to be in time out. When we returned, our hotel staff was waiting for us with refreshing juice and clean slippers as they removed our shoes, which we later found as clean as new in our room; they never even asked who we were or which room was ours. My advice...GO. Oh, and we are 67 and 70 years old. We were exhausted, but we kept up just fine.
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