Besides the traditional safari trips of planning and booking a whole trip with a travel agency, you can think of something new and exciting; a self-drive tour. You can experience the ultimate feel of relaxation and get all the excitement you can imagine with the incredible option of renting a car and self drive Uganda on your own and at your pace.

Taking out a car for a tour on self-drive in Uganda lets you enjoy a different activity which gives you an up close and breath-taking view of the spectacular scenery, animals and birds among other wildlife. In order to enjoy the best of your time in Uganda, you need early preparations such as looking out for a car to hire, places to visit, activities to do among others.

Game Watching

One of the best places on earth that has a huge collection of animals is Africa. This is because of the terrain that includes rich savannahs, deserts, rain forests, wetlands and a lot more making it an ideal place to be close to nature. Game watching in Uganda offers a safari experience that is better lived than narrated. It is untamed nature at its best.

Game viewing usually takes place early in the morning by taking on a game drive in your 4X4 Vehicle. You can rent out a car from different options available offered by your chosen car rental company.

When you take on a game drive, the day begins at 6am. The first thing to welcome you on a morning game drive is the breath-taking scenery of the park, an undulating land scape which spreads out before one’s eyes disappearing in the horizon with savannah and rainforest vegetation. Feast your eyes with a variety of game, antelopes, buffaloes, Rothschild-giraffes elephants, and buffaloes, warthogs, water bucks and many others.

In parks like Murchison Falls, Queen Elizabeth or Lake Mburo, you can enjoy more of game viewing during a boat ride, by catching a variety of wildlife safari animals from the comfort of the boat including hippos, large crocodiles basking in the sun, buffaloes, water bucks and elephants grazing at the banks and occasionally having to drink from the water.

Gorilla Trekking

Mountain Gorillas are threatened primate species in the world with the remaining living in Africa and more than a half in Uganda and the rest only in Rwanda and Democratic republic of Congo.
Listed as one of the top 10 threatened /endangered species, there are not more than 1100 individuals remaining on the planet thus an ideal option to make and see them during your self-drive trip.

You can choose to drive to Bwindi Forest where most gorilla tours in Uganda take place. The forest itself has more than 19 habituated Gorilla groups each available for 8 visitors per day through the year. Another place where Gorillas are found in Uganda is Mgahinga National Park.
Though Gorilla Trekking in quite expensive, it’s more rewarding.

While going for gorilla trekking, don’t forget to go with packed lunch as the time taken to before meeting the great apes is an unpredictable. However the time ranges between 2-9 hours depending on the movement of the giant primates. The activity can be tiresome; it involves walking along steep hilly tracks however encountering these great relatives of man erases all the poor memories/ hardships you went through in trying to find them.

Chimpanzee Tracking

You can also plan of yourself drive trip taking into Chimpanzee trekking destinations. Drive to Kibale Forest National park to enjoy the best of East African primates majorly chimpanzee. This forest is better known for its large diversity of primates with the route to see chimpanzees in the wild rewarding you with sightings of other primate species such as olive baboons, pottos & galagoes, different monkey species including black and white colobus, red-tailed monkeys, and grey cheeked mangabeys among others.

Other places to watch chimpanzees from include Kyambura Gorge in Queen Elizabeth National park, Kalinzu Forest and Budongo forest though the chances of seeing them here are sometimes limited.

In conclusion

In case you’re planning for an adventure road trip in Uganda, we are more than great full to guide you with the above guiding information and give you the best of your self-drive adventure safari with a 4 X 4 safari vehicle.