Untamed Uganda Safaris is a locally owned and certified tour activity operator based in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. We tailor personalized holiday safari packages to sole travelers, families and small groups that seek to immerse into a diversity of natural beauty and cultural heritage in both Uganda, Rwanda and the East Africa. These personalized tour plans solely depend on your interests, time, adventure appetite and of course the level of comfort you want while on safari. These packages combine several highlights and attractions in our region including; Gorilla and Chimpanzee trek experiences, Wildlife Safaris, Birdwatching, Cultural Experiences, Adventure and more activities beyond off-the-beaten-tracks.
Who we Are
At Untamed Uganda Safaris, we are small team driven by a passion to travel that was birthed from our humble beginnings as tour guides and tour leaders, a job we still do today! This has given us a wealth of local knowledge of our region where we operate and its diverse attractions that range from natural, historical and cultural diversity. And so we are naturalists, wildlife experts, birdwatchers, conservationists with passion for environment and responsible traveler while working with local communities. This we believe goes a long way in cultural exchange and economic transformation on a grassroot level. And as these communities benefit from local attractions this ensures their conservation.
Our day to day operations are led by a youthful team of tour consultants and planners that base from the operations offices across the region. Our field personnel include a diverse team of guides from naturalists, passionate birders, wildlife experts, drivers and adventure guides.
Our Drive
Our main drive is Value. To this end, we pay careful attention to our client’s wildest dreams, expectations, needs, budget, and time. As much as our tour packages presented here on our site are well researched and planned by experience tour leaders, none of them is cast in stone! Therefore we give liberty to our clients to polish them to suit their preferences and adventure appetite. No detail is small for us. We want our travelers to immerse in our diverse ancient cultures, learn of our ancient history, enjoy our day-to-day lifestyle, go off-the-beaten-path and enjoy our natural heritage.
Our Simple Mantra is: Discover, Explore, Experience!
African Elephant in Queen Elizabeth NP
Untamed Uganda Tours Categories – 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 here thou well researched, and tried by ourselves, CAN be tailored to your interests, time, pace and it doesn’t have to break the bank! These categories which combine various immersive experiences and adventure highlights help you filter and match your interests.
Highlights here includes;
- Mountain Gorillas and Chimpanzee Trekking
- Golden Monkey Trekking
- Wildlife Safaris
- Boat cruise Safaris
- Birding Safaris
- 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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Best of Uganda Tours
Best of Uganda Tours are more generalized packages featuring Uganda’s top attractions, highlights and adventures. Under this category, we craft flexible itineraries highlighting main attractions as must-do’s but also list optional activities for you to engage in while there. Uganda’s top attractions and highlights include; mountain gorilla and chimpanzee trek experiences, wildlife safaris, boat safaris, nature walks, white water rafting, birding safaris, hiking, city tours and more. These varied of experiences will solely be crafted to suit your time, style and adventure appetite.
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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 chimpanzee, 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.