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Top 10 ways to protect Mountain Gorillas
By Molly Feltner The recent popular YouTube video showing a tourist being touched by wild mountain gorillas has captivated more than a million viewers and will likely inspire many travellers to book a...
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Win a Masai Mara & Gorilla Trekking Adventure in Kenya and Uganda
WIN! A Two Week Masai Mara & Gorilla Trekking Adventure in Kenya and Uganda Safari interactive magazine and Nomad Africa Adventure Tours invite you on the overlanding trip of a lifetime! Leave...
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Five Tips for Mountain Gorilla Trekking
Of the dozens of wildlife viewing experiences I’ve had in Africa and North and South America, encountering mountain gorillas in their natural habitat takes the cake. On my first gorilla trek in Rwanda...
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I do Africa: the best and worst of times
Somewhere along the silent mass of Nile water flowing all the way to Egypt, something snapped. Maybe it was the time we were spending with our overlanding friends, and what is to us their magnitude of...
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The Ngamba chimpanzee sanctuary in Uganda
I’m a little nervous of chimps. Personally, I think it’s because their actions and personalities remind me far too much of us humans. This is also why I am absolutely fascinated by them. When I was in...
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Discovery by dugout in Uganda
Jumping into a dugout canoe was a wonderful way to experience Lake Bunyonyi, meaning ‘place of many little birds’. With its terraced hillsides and secret coves, Uganda’s deepest lake provides the...
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Batwa Pygmies: Forgetting the Bwindi Forest, Uganda
Penetrating the Impenetrable Forest took us deep into what was once home to the Batwa pymies, a forest-dwelling people who were displaced when Bwindi became a national park to protect the last...
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‘Eastern DRC is kak…’ said the mountain gorilla.
The mountain gorillas have known it for a while. Eastern DRC is kak. As their numbers dwindled to a few hundred – slaughtered for meat, ashtrays and funsies – they have taken refuge in the slightly...
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Nomad Competition Winner!!
The Safari team is delighted to announce Debbie Roberts as our Nomad Overlanding Competition winner! Taken during her fishing trip to the Zambezi River in Mongu, Zambia Debbie, from Zambia, will soon...
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Africa’s Top 6 Travel Stories of 2012
With the close of 2012, and the 10th edition of Safari having just been released, we look back to some of our most favourite travel stories from the last year. 1. Magnificent Mara Africa Geographic...
View ArticleGorilla Doctors
I first discovered the Gorilla Doctors while writing an article about a gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda. Since then, I’ve been in touch with Molly Feltner, a freelance writer, photographer and...
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Issue 3
Have you checked out our sizzling hot interactive magazine yet? Here are 6 reasons to click through to Safari now! 1. Get down and dirty at the super-alternative Afrika Burn Festival. 2. Join...
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A must-do encounter with chimpanzees
Nani, one of the lowest-ranking chimps at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary, waddles towards me with her arms stretched to the sky in a child’s ‘pick-me-up’ gesture. She climbs me as if I were a tree,...
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Gorilla populations on the rise in Bwindi, Uganda!
The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) population in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) has increased to an estimated 400 individuals, according to the recent released results of a...
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Sometimes the mountain gorillas come to you
Trekking for the rare mountain gorillas is surely on many people’s bucket lists, and most will come to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Treks can last for 2-10 hours as the gorilla...
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Top 10 Ugandan birds
Uganda, is known as Africa's premier birding destination and with the list of birds found here topping 1 000, it is difficult to narrow down what we would consider the top 10, but here goes.... Read...
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Getting to know the gorillas of Uganda
There are less than 900 individual mountain gorillas left in the wild. This photographer goes trekking in search of the groups that live in the Bwindi forest. Read more › The post Getting to know the...
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Tips for a great gorilla trekking experience
There are many factors to consider before booking your gorilla trekking experience, this blogger gives some useful tips for you to make the most of this once in a lifetime trip. Read more › The post...
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People and primates – beyond the bucket list
When Paul Baldwin started planning a safari for him and his wife Sarah to visit Uganda and Rwanda, it was as important to him to spend time visiting local communities as it was to incorporate...
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Ugandan court to release smuggled ivory
A Ugandan court has ordered the release of 2.9 tonnes of ivory destined for sale in China and the UAE Read more › The post Ugandan court to release smuggled ivory appeared first on Africa Geographic...
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