The largest mahogany forest in East Africa, on the road into Murchison Falls, with a chimpanzee community that has been tracked since the nineties. Stopping here turns the drive north into a morning in the forest rather than six hours in a vehicle.
Every one of these is something we run here, not a stock list.
We do not have a scheduled itinerary for Budongo Forest on the site right now, which does not mean we cannot take you. We build private trips to order across Uganda — tell us your dates and we will put a route and a price together.
Plan a trip to Budongo ForestBudongo Forest, part of the greater Murchison Falls ecosystem, is known for its rich biodiversity, including a large chimpanzee population. The forest offers birdwatching, forest walks, and chimp tracking, making it a must-visit for nature lovers.
Most safaris here combine two or three of these.
Bwindi holds roughly half the mountain gorillas left on earth. You walk into thick, steep, ancient forest with a ranger and a tracker, sometimes for an hour and sometimes for six, and then spend one hour with a habituated family at a few metres' distance. People who have done every safari there is still describe it as the best hour of their lives.
The Nile squeezes through a gap seven metres wide and drops forty-three metres, and the noise of it is the reason people come. Around the falls is Uganda's largest park: a boat trip to the base of them past hippo and crocodile, then game drives on the northern bank for lion, elephant and Rothschild's giraffe.
The best chimpanzee tracking in East Africa, in a forest holding thirteen primate species. Around 1,500 chimps live here and the habituated communities are relaxed enough that you watch them feed, groom and argue overhead rather than catching a glimpse and losing them.
Uganda's most visited park, and the one with the most variety: a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel past hundreds of hippo, the Kasenyi plains for lion, and the Ishasha sector in the south where the lions lie in the fig trees. The Rwenzori mountains stand behind it on a clear day.
Tell us roughly when you can travel and how long you have. We will tell you honestly whether Budongo Forest is the right call for those dates — and what it costs.
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