Uganda Bwindi Gorillas Murchison Queen Elizabeth Rwenzori Pearl Africa Complete Guide 2026
Browse more guides: Uganda travel | Africa destinations Uganda Travel Guide 2026: Bwindi Mountain Gorillas, Murchison Falls, Queen Elizabeth NP, Rwenzori and the Pearl of Africa TL;DR Uganda packs more raw wildlife and landscape variety into a single country than almost anywhere else I have travelled. In one trip I tracked mountain gorillas through dripping bamboo on the slopes of Bwindi, watched the Victoria Nile force itself through a seven metre rock chasm at Murchison Falls, photographed tree climbing lions in Ishasha, and stared up at the snowfields of Margherita Peak at 5,109 metres in the Rwenzori range. The country covers 241,038 square kilometres, holds roughly 46 million people, and protects three UNESCO sites including Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (inscribed 1994, 321 square kilometres, around 459 mountain gorillas which is roughly half of the global population of 1,063 counted in the 2018 census). A single gorilla permit costs USD 800 per person per day. I planned...