Activity type: Wildlife & game drives

Lone acacia tree silhouetted at sunset over the Narus Valley in Kidepo Valley National Park

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Kidepo Valley wilderness

Wide savannah ringed by mountains, buffalo herds in the Narus Valley and almost no other vehicles: Kidepo is Uganda’s most remote and most beautiful park.

3 Oct 20263 min read

White rhino walking along a woodland track at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

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Rhino tracking on foot

Walk through the bush with a ranger until a family of white rhinos appears, grazing calmly a short distance away: Ziwa is one of Africa’s most accessible rhino walks.

3 Oct 20264 min read

Rothschild's giraffe on the grassy plains of Murchison Falls National Park

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Game drives in Murchison Falls

Rothschild’s giraffes, elephants, buffalo and lions on grassland that runs down to the Nile and Lake Albert: the north bank of Murchison is Uganda’s classic game drive.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Lioness resting in the grass of Queen Elizabeth National Park

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Lions of the Kasenyi plains

At dawn on the Kasenyi plains, thousands of Uganda kob gather on their breeding grounds, and the lions are never far away.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Lions resting on the branches of a large fig tree

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Tree-climbing lions of Ishasha

Lions draped over the branches of big fig trees: Ishasha, in the south of Queen Elizabeth National Park, is one of the few places where lions regularly climb.

3 Oct 20264 min read

Elephants grazing on the Amboseli plains beneath snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro

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Elephants beneath Kilimanjaro

Big-tusked elephants walking across dusty plains, with snow-capped Kilimanjaro behind them: Amboseli gives one of the most famous views in Africa.

3 Oct 20264 min read

Family of elephants among the trees of Tarangire National Park

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Tarangire’s elephants and baobabs

Ancient baobab trees, a river that never runs dry, and some of the largest elephant herds in East Africa: Tarangire is the northern circuit’s great surprise.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Black rhinos grazing on the open floor of Ngorongoro Crater

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Black rhino in Ngorongoro

Ngorongoro Crater is one of the few places in East Africa where you have a realistic chance of seeing a wild black rhino from a safari vehicle.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Wildebeest and zebra grazing on the Ngorongoro Crater floor

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A day on the Ngorongoro Crater floor

Descend 600 metres down the wall of a collapsed volcano into a sealed world of lions, rhinos, flamingos and herds of zebra.

3 Oct 20264 min read

Black-maned male lion prowling through golden grass in the Serengeti

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Big cats of the central Serengeti

Granite kopjes, a river lined with sausage trees and resident herds: the Seronera Valley is one of the best places in Africa to see all three big cats.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Tailor-made, from dusk to dawn

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