Wild Route Trips

Private safaris in Uganda and across East Africa

Gorillas, the migration, the Serengeti and the Nile. Your dates, your group, nobody else’s.
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Every trip is private,
and built around your dates

A silverback ten metres away in Bwindi. The Mara boiling over at a river crossing. Chimpanzees in Kibale before the heat. A crater lake at 1,500 metres with nobody else on it.
We build every trip from nothing, around the month you can actually get away.
Destinations

Start with a country

Uganda for gorillas, chimpanzees and the source of the Nile. Rwanda for Volcanoes National Park and the shortest way in. Kenya for the Maasai Mara and the migration. Tanzania for the Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Kilimanjaro.
The Victoria Nile dropping through the gorge at Murchison Falls under a heavy sky, UgandaGorillas, chimpanzees and the NileUgandaMount Muhabura and Mount Gahinga, Virunga volcanoes on the Rwanda and Uganda borderVolcanoes, and the fastest way inRwandaA Maasai man with spear and shield sitting on rocks above a turquoise sea, KenyaThe Mara, and the migrationKenyaZebra and wildebeest at the soda lake with flamingo massed behind, Ngorongoro Crater, TanzaniaSerengeti, Ngorongoro, KilimanjaroTanzania

How do you want to travel?

Pick the thing you came for. We build the route around it.
Active & AdventureArts & CultureFamily TripsFood & CoffeeGroups & ReunionsHiking ToursHoneymoonsWellness Travel
Our tours

Tours we run most often

Every tour here is private, and we change it once we know your dates.
A silverback mountain gorilla looking out from thick forestUgandaUganda Gorilla TrekkingTypically 3 to 5 daysThatched, dome-shaped rooms set into a forested hillside, RwandaRwandaRwanda Gorilla TrekkingTypically 3 to 5 daysElephant and buffalo herds below the escarpment, Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaUgandaBest of UgandaTypically 10 to 14 daysThe terraced shores and islands of Lake Bunyonyi from above, UgandaUgandaUganda Honeymoon SafariTypically 7 to 10 daysTwo Rothschild's giraffe together under a blue sky at Murchison Falls, UgandaUgandaUganda Family SafariTypically 8 to 12 daysTwo lions in long grass beside an open safari vehicle in the Maasai Mara, KenyaKenyaBest of KenyaTypically 7 to 10 daysLions resting on a rock kopje above the plain in the Serengeti, TanzaniaTanzaniaBest of TanzaniaTypically 6 to 9 days

What travelling with us
actually means

More about how we work

Planned around you

Your dates, your pace, your budget. Every trip is private and built from nothing, so no stop is on your itinerary because it suited a group.

Permits secured first

Gorilla permits for Bwindi and Volcanoes sell out months ahead in high season. We check them against your dates before anything else is decided.

One guide, start to finish

The same guide meets you at arrivals and is still there on the last morning. You never have to explain yourself twice.

Straight answers before you book

Which walk is genuinely hard. The months permits cost less. Whether ten days would be a better trip at seven. While you can still change it.

When to go

The year, and what it costs you

East Africa sits on the equator, so there is no summer and no winter. What changes is the rain, what the rain does to the roads, and what a gorilla permit costs.
Buffalo on open grassland in Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaJune to September

The long dry season

Firm forest trails, short grass in the savanna parks and predictable roads. The busiest months, and gorilla permits for them go first.

The main Sipi fall on the shoulder of Mount Elgon, eastern UgandaOctober, November

The short rains

Rain in the afternoon that rarely lasts the day. Green country, few vehicles, and a USD 600 gorilla permit in November.

Rafts running whitewater on the Victoria Nile below Jinja, UgandaDecember to February

The second dry season

Hot and clear, busy over Christmas, then quiet through January. February is the driest month in the south and the best window for the Rwenzori.

The terraced shoreline and islands of Lake Bunyonyi under cloudMarch to May

The long rains

The wettest stretch and the hardest underfoot. April and May carry the USD 600 permit, birding peaks, and the forest is very nearly empty.

Seven days shaped well
beats ten that were only filled

A month moved by three weeks can empty a forest and take USD 200 off a gorilla permit. Seven days shaped properly will outlast ten that were merely filled. You will hear all of it while you can still act on it.
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