Guide: The African Safari (DIY)

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There are two main types of safaris, the do-it-yourself and the guided safari. The plethora of options with guided safaris are simply too numerous to discuss here so we’ll just list a few basic points you’ll want to think about before you put down your deposit. Continue reading though for the do it yourself (DIY) [...]

Ever been charged by a mountain gorilla?

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Transportation from the capital to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest — $130 Permits to go gorilla tracking in Bwindi — $500 Seeing your wife’s face as a 400 pound angry silverback mountain gorilla charges your group and knocks down one of the guides……..priceless The walk hadn’t been too bad, at least not in comparison to everything [...]

Review: Nalubale Rafting (Jinja, Uganda)

Review: Nalubale Rafting (Jinja, Uganda)

We contacted Nalubale Rafting when we arrived in Jinja at the suggestion of a friend. On price alone Nalubale was 30%-40% cheaper than just about everyone else in town and on that recommendation alone we were sold. After speaking to the owners/guides about the river levels and the river-boarding we preferred to do, we were [...]

Riverboarding the Nile…

Riverboarding the Nile…

Most people come to Jinja to raft the Victoria Nile. But we don’t raft. With the class V water over our heads for kayaking we did the next best thing…jump in with a boogie board. Yes, you read that right, we boogie boarded some of the biggest commercially rafted whitewater on the planet. Upon jumping [...]