Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Uganda
Two dry windows for tracking, two wet ones for birds and lower prices, and one monthly morning that stops the whole country.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Uganda: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Kibiro Salt Village: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Nine hundred years of salt made on the shore of Lake Albert, in gardens owned and worked entirely by women, under a rift escarpment.
Heritage
Nyero Rock Art: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Geometric paintings in three rock shelters in eastern Uganda, whose age and makers are still disputed by the people who list them.
Heritage
Rwenzori Mountains National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Glaciers on the equator, Africa's third highest peak, and an alpine flora that has been called Africa's botanical big game.
Heritage
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Almost half the world's mountain gorillas live in one forest surrounded by farmland at 350 people to the square kilometer.
Heritage
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A royal burial ground of thatch and barkcloth that burned down, was rebuilt over thirteen years, and left the Danger List in 2023.
Destination
Uganda
Mountain gorillas in Bwindi, the royal tombs at Kasubi, and forests that climb from the plains toward the snowline of the Rwenzori range.