Targeting the Big Five with game drives, boat safaris, and wilderness camps in three of Uganda’s top national parks, this immersive, overland experience aims to Based out of our specialized 4×4 truck with a complete kitchen, food, drink, beds, and a hot shower, this road trip consists of overland camping.

Perfect for you to spend evenings beneath the stars over a campfire. Two evenings at quite outstanding hotels. For self-drive convoys including bigger parties of four or more. Explore Africa.

Day 1: Rhinos and Murchison Falls.

If you would choose, you would meet at your Entebbe lodging at 8.00 am or in Kampala 9.00 am. For bigger groups, familiarisation with the second, self-drive car, driving in convoy, and radio communication will all be briefly discussed.

Starting the trip with a transfer to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and a break stop halfway along, Lowero Market

At Ziwa at midday, you will meet the white rhinos for a guided stroll. You will discover the procedure of re-introduction for this unique beast into Uganda.

After eating late lunch at Ziwa, you will go for Murchison Falls National Park from Masindi. At the peak of Murchison Falls, which channels the River Nile over a 7-meter-wide valley, you will see For the first camp night, you will have a little hop to Red Chilli Restcamp and an introduction to our amazing setup. Details are available on our website.

Dinner and beverages will be enjoyed around the camp or in the restaurant banda—or a little of both—with a lodge fire viewing the Nile Basin.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 2: Nile Boat Safari, Game Drive and Wild Camp.

Red Chili’s early breakfast will be followed by a boat safari down to Murchison Falls’ base. Elephants, hippos, water buffalo, and great birdlife abound on the Nile banks and in the river: kingfisher, weaver birds, and fish eagles.

Lunch and a noon break around the pool will be at Paraa Lodge, which overlooks the Nile.

You’ll gather the ranger and go mid-afternoon for the savannah game safari into the forest to camp in the wild near Lake Albert. Antelopes, elephants, giraffes, water buffalos, and plenty of birds are expected.
Uganda has about a thousand different species! We will gather firewood as we go and pitch up tent in the middle of nowhere, with Lake Albert visible.

After doing an evening wildlife drive with the greatest possibility to view a lion and maybe a leopard, you will return to camp for BBQ and beverages around the campfire. Though we have a foldable toilet seat and a hot shower, this is wild camping! Hi Africa!

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 3: Kidepo Valley National Park.

Looking for breakfast, you break camp before morning with a cup of tea and travel into the adjacent hunting areas for the greatest possibility to observe the lions and maybe a leopard at work. You’ll stop for yours along the Nile and go for an optional guided walking safari to locate hippos or maybe a croc or two while we get ready. You will keep the game drive over Murchison and pass the far northeast gate across a section known for elephants.

You leave the park and go to eat in Gulu. Then you’ll keep northward into the isolated Kidepo Valley National Park, recognized by CNN as the second-best park in all of Africa. If time permits, you will stop on way to Aruu Falls. From isolated towns and an ever changing environment to eventually arriving for a pampering lodge night at Kidepo Savannah Lodge —a luxury safari banda overlooking the valley with a stunning hilltop restaurant to relax and unwind —this is quite some travel by road and then track.

Accommodation: Kidepo Savannah Lodge (Safari Tent)

Day 4: Kidepo Valley National Park Wilderness.

After a leisurely breakfast, you leave at 9.00 am for a wildlife safari into Kidepo Valley. Apart from the amazing landscape and the sensation of very big African sky, this is possibly the richest inhabited wildlife park in Uganda with plenty of antelopes, zebras, giraffes, elephants, and water buffalos as well as lions and a potential of leopards and cheetahs. There is also birdlife all around.

Arriving at Apoka, the park headquarters for lunch, you will pick up a ranger for an afternoon safari. For your second wild camp, you will go to Kakine Kopje with a 360 panorama over the plains of Kidepo Valley below.

You’ll unwind late afternoon, soaking in the surroundings and getting ready for the sunset. Dinner and beverages around the campfire beneath maybe the most brilliant stars on Earth will be well enjoyed. Once again, all the features of our support vehicle are yours, including “the seat” should so be desired. Breathe, shut your eyes, and what sound you hear? Not nothing!

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 5: The Karamoja and Pian-Upe Wildlife Reserve.

You will leave camp at daybreak for an early morning game drive into real Lion King country and a last opportunity to see lion and maybe leopard in their hunting territories. You will leave Kidepo and go south over the isolated and mysterious Karamojo region—Kaabong—then a little diversion to Nakaperumoru to see the Jie warrior tribe.

See Mount Moroto and have lunch at the Karatunga Foundation. It’s a communal project helping the Karamojo Area. The Karamojong have rich savannah plains and always-present towns and villages with elaborate kraals and bomas seeming to date millennia and beyond. Rising from the lowlands are enormous volcanic mountain ranges and infeasible rock formations.

You will keep south to Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve for a late afternoon wildlife drive and a rare chance to view ostrich and roan antelope. For a last night camping with supper, a bonfire and a last opportunity to see the night sky, you will visit the Kara-Tunga Eco Camp.

Accommodation: Pian-Upe Wildlife Reserve

Day 6: Mount Elgon and Sipi Falls.

After breakfast at camp and go for Pian Upe for last wildlife safari. You will go a little distance to the Upe tribe’s ceremonial caves. Here you can find the remnants of old tribal meetings covered with cave paintings.

You will leave Pian Upe and go to Mount Elgon, rising the slopes of one of Africa’s tallest volcanoes with the biggest crater in the world, thereby approaching Sipi Falls.

Over three stunning waterfalls, the Sipi River flows down Mount Elgon.

You’ll eat at the lovely Lacam Lodge with a view of the lower falls. After that, you will make a little walk down the mountain route from the higher falls to the middle falls where you will spend your last night in magnificent settings at Sipi Heritage Lodge at the foot of the falls.

Accommodation: Sipi Heritage Lodge

Day 7: Jinja and the Source of the Nile.

You will leave Sipi Heritage Lodge and go to a mountain slope ethnic coffee processing plant. This is an amazing chance to study the main phases of coffee production from planting to cupping; roasting and grinding your own beans; and grasp the potential of this important commodity to the local economy.

You will start the return portion of the trip after down Mount Elgon. You will stop in Jinja for Nile source lunch. You will leave Jinja for the return trip to your hotel either Entebbe at 7.00 pm or Kampala at 6.00 pm.

Why not arrange a stay in Jinja and spend more time whitewater rafting or more sedentary activities on the Nile or inside the well-known city of Jinja?

End of tour.