Journeys

The Serengeti is 15,000 square kilometres and the crater is 260. One is the largest intact grassland migration on earth; the other is a collapsed volcano with everything living inside it. They are two hours apart.

Two hours from an international airport to the foot of a volcano, and a gorilla family on the slope above it. Rwanda is the shortest road to a mountain gorilla anywhere in the world, and it charges accordingly.

The Mara is the densest concentration of big cats in Africa, and between July and October the river crossings happen on its northern bank. Everything else on this route is chosen so the Mara is not the only thing you remember.

One hard morning trekking gorillas in Bwindi, then a week on Lake Bunyonyi and the crater lakes with nothing scheduled. Most honeymoon safaris get the order wrong and send people home more tired than they arrived.

Rhino on foot at Ziwa, the Nile through a seven metre gap, chimpanzees in Kibale, lion in the Ishasha fig trees and gorillas in Bwindi. Uganda is the only country where one road does all of that.

One hour, seven metres from a gorilla family in Bwindi that has known people for a decade. That is the shape most first gorilla trips take. Yours will change once we have your dates and an honest word about how far you want to walk.

Gorilla and chimpanzee trekking have a minimum age of 15 and no operator can get round it. So this journey is built from what a younger family can actually do, which in Uganda is a great deal more than most places.