Overview:

Welcome to Terrain Safaris: a local tour company based in Kampala, specialized in organizing wilderness journeys in East Africa. Our tours take you through the beautiful countries in Eastern Africa – Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. You will really experience the outdoors, meet locals, dine and sleep well in the comfort of Luxury safari lodges, standard hotels and adventure camps.

For more than 17 years now, Terrain safaris and it’s wildlife/birding specialists have planned over 5,000 safaris to the  East African wilderness. Helping our clients, the safari goers, to experience Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable forest and the Virunga massive setting. Organizing safaris and tours through Uganda’s savannah parks of Kidepo Valley, Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth national parks. Running tours to Rwanda’s Nyungwe forest, Volcanoes forest and Akagera savannah park. Exploring the beauty of the natural World by traversing through Tanzania’s Serengeti plains, Ngorongoro Crater and Kenya’s Masai Mara nature reserve, all in search for the elusive wildlife and other natural gifts of these vast landscapes.

Enjoy the natural World at it’s best, not forgetting the beautiful cultural heritage of the local communities of East Africa. Tourism in the great lakes region (East Africa) has changed greatly especially now that the locals are getting to know the importance of conservation. This is so due to the Governments’ sensitization to the local communities around conservation areas, encouraging them to cohabit with these wildlife. I can happily tell you that now the local communities in and around these conservation areas know that wildlife are the land-lords and we humans are the intruders.

When I joined the sector around the early 2000s, accessibility and connect-ability between different conservation areas was not that easy. This was mainly due to poor infrastructure, whereby the road network in the tourism corridor, connecting to most of our parks and conservation reserves were unpaved. We used to take several hours traversing through the countryside from one park to another. For example it used to take us almost 10 hours driving about 350 kms, from Murchison Falls national park to Kibale forest national park.

The road network infrastructure has been improved lately and many of the roads in the tourism corridor have been paved by the various governments in this region. So now one can leave Murchison falls national park like at 08:00am in the morning and have lunch at Kibale forest national park. Also many accommodation facilities of different standards have been constructed in various areas along the wildlife parks. Now tourists and other travelers have a lot of accommodation choices in different areas.

Also the human resource development has greatly improved and now the region has almost enough qualified and competent ranger-guides, tourist guides and driver guides for different tourism products, at different levels. This has been possible due to collective efforts from different tourism stake holders.