9th Edition Published: Dec 2019 592 pages / 47 maps The Bradt Guide to Uganda,
now more than 500-pages long, is the definitive travel handbook to this
wonderful but oft-neglected destination, not only providing comprehensive
background information to its varied national parks, towns and other cultural
attractions, but also including detailed reviews of the ever-growing selection
of world-class lodges and budget hotels that service them. Uganda boasts the
most varied - and arguably the most exciting - safari circuit in Africa. The
lush montane forests of Bwindi protect the world's largest remaining population
of mountain gorillas, many of which have become habituated to tourists and can
be tracked to within a few metres on foot. Elsewhere, Queen Elizabeth National
Park, set below the snow-capped Mountains of the Moon, is renowned for its
tree-climbing lions and abundant buffaloes. Elephants abound in Murchison Falls
National Park, coursed through by a dramatic stretch of the White Nile dense
with hippos, crocodiles and waterfowl, while Kibale Forest offers superb
chimpanzee tracking as well as the opportunity to see ten other monkey species
in their natural jungle habitat. For birders, an astonishing checklist of more
than 1,000 species - in a country similar in size to Great Britain or the state
of Oregon Ź- includes dozens of Western rainforest specials difficult to see
elsewhere, as well as the iconic great blue turaco and shoebill. Philip Briggs
is the world's foremost writer of guidebooks to Africa. He has been exploring
the continent's highways, byways and backwaters for over 30 years.