Untamed Uganda Safaris is a locally owned and certified tour activity operator based in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. We are a small team, whose travel and adventure passion grew from our humble beginnings as both tour guides and tour leaders, where we still share experiences and adventures with travelers on their diverse quests through Uganda, Rwanda and now throughout the East Africa.
Who we Are
Our day to day operations is led by a youthful team comprising of tour managers that supervises and runs operations from office. Our diverse team of guides range from naturalists, passionate birders and leaders, wildlife experts, drivers and adventure guides. Together we share a passion of responsible travel as we believe it brings grass-root positive impact:
To the traveler, a wholesome nourishment of mind, soul and body creating life-long memories and rich relationships. To the destination and community; a positive economic change to the livelihood of people, to conservation; support and preservation of our fragile environment.
Our Drive
Our main drive is Value. To this end, we pay careful attention to our client’s needs, budget, and time. We know “This is Your Safari”, and so from our first engagement, we take in every detail, go through every available option so that together we can tailor a package that will enrich your experience in Uganda and Rwanda. An authentic, well researched and interpretive package that will provide a traveler insights into our diverse ancient cultures, history, off-the-beaten-path experiences, wildlife, adventure, and nature encounters.
Our Simple Mantra
Discover, Explore, Experience!
At Untamed Uganda Safaris, we endeavor to “create life-long memorial travel experiences, creating friends along and this is the fabric of our family: “You come as a stranger and leave as a family.” Simply a Ugandan lifestyle!
Our Tours – Personal tailor-made Safari Menus
At Untamed Uganda Safaris we are much aware that every trip is personal and “one size doesn’t fit all”. Because of that, our suggested itineraries thou well researched and tried by our selves CAN be tailored to our client’s interests, time, pace and it doesn’t have to break the bank! These effective, personal and rewarding life changing experiences we craft – and they are; target family/groups but also cater for single or independent travelers.
Below are major highlights and experiences include;
- Mountain Gorillas and Chimpanzee Trekking
- Golden Monkey Trekking
- Wildlife Safaris
- Boat cruise Safaris
- Birding
- Cultural Experiences
- White water Rafting
- Hiking and Mountaineering
- Biking and Walking Safaris.
These highlights are then tailored together by our experienced team to develop a tour plan that you can be polish and fine tune thus creating your personal dream safari across Uganda and Rwanda.
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Specialized Tours in Uganda and Rwanda
Best of Uganda Tours: The best of Uganda Tours consists combination of several experiences only in Uganda ranging from as short as One-day birding or White-water rafting trips, to a 3-Day Adventure and Wildlife tour pans. Longer itineraries cover major Uganda safari highlights that include treks to mountain gorilla, chimpanzee, golden monkey, wildlife, birding, walking safaris and boat cruises. All these tours short or long are led by a specialized guide/driver.
Best of Rwanda Tours: Running across Rwanda, these tours showcase the beauty, cultural and natural diversity in of this small country of “a thousand hills”. Highlights include treks along the mountain gorillas and chimpanzees, montane forest hikes, forest canopy walks, volcano hikes, wildlife safaris, boat cruise safaris, city tours, and cultural experiences.
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Best of Uganda and Rwanda Combo Safaris
Uganda and Rwanda lie at the heart of the equatorial Africa characterized by a pleasant all-year-round temperatures and share similar natural, ecological and cultural traits. The two countries lie on the eastern ridges of the western arm of the East African rift valley with high altitudes of over 1000m asl. The scenery is one of the breath-taking landscapes on the continent with towering volcanic mountain ranges, rainforests, highland lakes, bustling clean towns, friendliest population making tours and adventure experience options enormous and diverse.
Crafted for short or long duration, the Uganda/Rwanda combo safaris are flexible enough to begin/end in Rwanda or Uganda.
Uganda/Rwanda Combo Primates Tours: Uganda and Rwanda offers the greatest lifetime trekking experiences along the endangered Mountain Gorillas, the charismatic Golden Monkey and the Chimpanzee. Combinedly, these two countries host more than half of the global population of the mountain gorillas. Tailored to your choice and time, you can incorporates a wildlife safari across several game-rich savanna parks for an incredible wildlife experience. While in these parks, a boat cruise safari on various water bodies will bring you to up-close to iconic African wildlife and a plethora of both wildlife and birdlife.
Uganda/Rwanda Combo Birding Tours: Uganda and Rwanda are a birding haven and lie within the biodiversity rich region of the Albertine Rift known for its highest endemism of both flora and fauna. The well paced and specie target combo tours exploit various hotspots that include montane forests, rainforests and high-altitude swamps for up to 28 Albertine Endemics known from these birding sites. Along the tour, birders collect other local bird specialists including high-altitude specialists, forest proper species and more that occur within these highlands.
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Adventure and Cultural Experiences Plans
These plans are crafted mostly for variety of cultural and adrenaline experiences that suits all categories of thrill seekers. These could be rafting the white waters of the Nile, multi-day hikes including onto the snow-capped mountains of the moon of Rwenzori, guided nature walks close to variety of game.
Cultural experiences are crafted to connect the visitors to the indigenous and authentic cultures of Uganda and other areas we visit. Visits are locally guided by community guides exploring traditions and norms that are diverse and distinguishable. Whether one choose to camp either with the former nomads of the east, or under the star-lit African night sky, or follow on the footsteps of former forest dwellers on a hike, or participate in ancient coffee brewing with the local coffee growers options are numerous.