Four nations,
one heartbeat.

An ancient UNESCO rainforest sheltering nearly half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas.

Three Virunga volcanoes, one habituated gorilla family, and the rare golden monkey.

Uganda's largest park — savannah game drives, a Nile cruise to the falls, and the world's most powerful waterfall by force.

Uganda's most visited park — savannah, crater lakes, and the storied Ishasha tree-climbing lions.

13 primate species including 1,500 chimpanzees in 795 km² of mid-altitude rainforest.

A semi-arid Karamoja valley ringed by mountains — Uganda's wildest and least-visited park.

Uganda's smallest savannah park — and the only one where you can safari on foot, horseback or by boat.

Uganda's only place to encounter wild southern white rhinos — on foot, with armed rangers, on the road to Murchison Falls.

An extinct shield volcano with the planet's largest caldera, framed by the Sipi Falls trio and Arabica coffee farms.

A 900-metre-deep crater lake of 29 islands — bilharzia-free, swim-safe and the perfect post-gorilla unwind.

Where the world's longest river leaves Lake Victoria — white-water rafting, bungee, quad biking and sunset Nile cruises.

A Ramsar-listed wetland on Lake Victoria's edge — the most reliable place in Africa to find the prehistoric shoebill stork.

East Africa's largest mahogany forest — chimpanzee tracking and the famed Royal Mile birding trail beside Murchison Falls.

The only true lowland Congolian forest in East Africa — hot springs, Central African birds and the Batwa pygmy people.

A vast 2,788 km² savannah in eastern Karamoja — home to Fox's Weaver, Uganda's only endemic bird.

306 km² of moist tropical forest between Kampala and Jinja — primates, butterflies and zip-lines in the canopy.

Five volcanoes, twelve habituated gorilla families, and the world's most polished gorilla trek.

1,019 km² of pristine montane forest — chimpanzees, 13 primate species, and Africa's only canopy walkway.

A conservation triumph — lion and rhino reintroduced, the Big Five complete, and one of Africa's largest protected wetlands.

A 2,700 km² inland sea fringed by terraced hills, coffee plantations and barefoot beach towns.

1,510 km² of rolling savannah hosting the Great Migration river crossings and Africa's densest big cat population.

Africa's most photographed landscape — multi-generational elephant families framed by the snowcap of Kilimanjaro.

9,500 km² of private conservancies and community ranches — Kenya's stronghold for rhino, wild dog and Grevy's zebra.

Volcanic hills cloaked in cloud forest between Amboseli and Tsavo — quiet luxury, big tuskers and lava-tube caves.

Semi-arid scrubland along the Ewaso Ng'iro river — home to species seen nowhere else in Kenya.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the original community wildlife conservancy — 14% of Kenya's eastern black rhino live here.

A Rift Valley alkaline lake fringed by flamingos, with one of Kenya's largest populations of black and white rhino.

A dramatic Rift Valley gorge of red cliffs and geysers — and one of Africa's only parks where you can safari on foot or by bike.

14,750 km² stage for the year-round Great Migration — and one of the densest predator populations on earth.

The world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera — 260 km² holding 25,000 large mammals including all the Big Five.

Tanzania's elephant capital — multi-hundred herds against silhouetted baobabs in the dry months.

A jewel-box park beneath the Great Rift escarpment — groundwater forest, alkaline lake and a prized Big Five start to the northern circuit.

Powder-white beaches, UNESCO Stone Town, dhow sailing and the spice plantations that named these islands.

An apocalyptic alkaline lake beneath an active volcano — the sole breeding site for East Africa's 2.5 million lesser flamingos.

A small, scenic park at the foot of Mt Meru — perfect for a half-day before or after the Northern Circuit.