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Rafting & kayaking · Jinja — Source of the Nile
Adrift
A multi-activity adventure operator on the Nile at Jinja, with white-water rafting as its core trip. Also runs bungee jumping over the river, kayaking, stand-up paddling, quad biking and horse riding, so several activities can be combined in a single visit.
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Safaris · Entebbe
Avian Safaris
A birding-focused tour company founded in 2011 and based on Entebbe Road outside Kampala. It runs guided birdwatching and bird photography trips in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, and combines birding itineraries with gorilla and chimpanzee tracking. Tours are led by specialist bird guides.
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Tours · Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Bamboo Ecotours
A locally owned operator on the Kabale–Kisoro road, close to both Mgahinga and Bwindi. It runs small-group mountain gorilla trekking in those parks, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale and Kalinzu forests, and wildlife and community-based trips in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC.
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Safaris · Kidepo Valley National Park
Big Apes Africa Safaris
A destination management company based in Ntinda, Kampala. Its Uganda wildlife programme covers Murchison Falls, Queen Elizabeth, Kidepo Valley and Lake Mburo, with tailored departures for families, couples, photographers and solo travellers. It also arranges gorilla tours in Uganda and Rwanda.
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Boat cruises · Lake Bunyonyi
Bushara Island Camp
Operates on Bushara Island in Lake Bunyonyi, running the eco-camp there alongside lake-based activities. Visitors reach the island by motorboat and can take dugout canoe trips to neighbouring islands, swim, walk the island trail and go bird watching with guides. The camp also arranges nature walks and visits to surrounding communities.
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Safaris · Lake Mburo National Park
Buyaga Safaris
A Ugandan-registered safari company founded in 2017 and based in Nakawa, Kampala. Its Uganda programme covers Murchison Falls, Queen Elizabeth, Kidepo Valley and Lake Mburo, including a short standalone Lake Mburo itinerary and a longer circuit taking in Kidepo. It also offers gorilla trekking in Bwindi and trips into Rwanda.
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Semuliki National Park
The Forest That Boils: Semuliki, Where the Congo Slips Quietly Into Uganda
The steam finds you before the path does. You are walking through lowland forest west of Fort Portal, listening to the metallic clatter of a piping hornbill somewhere above the canopy, and then the air changes — thickens, sweetens faintly with sulphur — and through a screen of raffia palms a white column rises two metres into the morning and drifts sideways into the trees. This is Nyasimbi, the female spring at Sempaya, and she has been boiling for as long as anyone in Bundibugyo can remember. Guides carry eggs in their pockets for the demonstration. Ten minutes in a woven basket lowered into the water, and breakfast is ready. The water runs at around 100 degrees Celsius. Nobody puts a hand in twice.
Torch Media Africa · 19 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
Kibale Forest
In Kibale's Green Cathedral, Uganda's Chimpanzee Capital Comes Alive
The forest wakes before the light does. Long before the sun clears the canopy of Kibale National Park in western Uganda, a low, rising hoot ripples through the mahogany and fig trees — one voice, then a dozen, then what sounds like the whole forest erupting into whoops and drumming as unseen hands slap buttress roots like timpani. It is the sound of chimpanzees greeting the day, and for the trackers, guides and travelers gathering at the misty Kanyanchu trailhead, it is the signal that the search is about to begin.
Torch Media Africa · 19 Sept 2026 · 4 min read
Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
The Giants That Came Back
The ranger stops walking, lifts one hand, and the whole morning seems to stop with him. Ahead, perhaps thirty metres into a thicket of acacia scrub still wet from the night, something enormous is breathing. You hear it before you see it — a low, bellows-like sound, unhurried, entirely unbothered. Then the grass shifts, and a southern white rhino lifts a head the size of a jerrycan, ears rotating like small radar dishes, and looks straight through you.
Torch Media Africa · 19 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
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