Travelmonke Tours and Travel · UTB/RTT/TT/2025/101816 · direct UWA permit allocations
Tailor-made luxury gorilla trekking, small-capacity lodges, and senior guides who know every sector by name — at roughly half the permit cost of neighbouring Rwanda.
Check permit availability View safari packagesTravelmonke designs tailor-made luxury safaris in Uganda for travellers who want the country's rarest encounters — mountain gorilla trekking, chimpanzee tracking, and classic savanna game drives — without the compromises of a resold, templated itinerary. As one of the Uganda luxury safari operators travellers compare first, we're a Uganda Tourism Board–licensed local team with direct UWA permit allocations, planning every private Uganda safari around confirmed trekking dates, small-capacity luxury lodges, and a senior guide matched to your fitness level and interests.
Whether you're comparing a luxury Uganda safari for a first gorilla trek, planning a honeymoon safari, or building a multi-park itinerary that combines primates with the Big Five, our team designs the trip around you rather than fitting you into a fixed package. It's what separates a genuinely bespoke luxury safari Uganda experience from a brochure itinerary with the dates changed.
Featured itineraries
8 days
Bwindi, Kibale, and Queen Elizabeth connected entirely by domestic charter flight — no long road transfers.
5 days
Our tightest luxury Uganda safari, built around a single confirmed gorilla trek using domestic charter flights.
9 days · primates
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi plus two distinct chimpanzee encounters, in Kibale Forest and Kyambura Gorge.
8 days · romance
A private gorilla trek paired with an intimate Queen Elizabeth lodge stay, built for couples.
10 days · family
Lake Mburo, Queen Elizabeth, and Bwindi, planned around the gorilla trekking age limit with alternating parent treks.
12 days · grand journey
Our most complete circuit: Murchison Falls, Kibale, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi, and Lake Mburo in one trip.
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Most requested
2026–2027 pricing, sector-by-sector permit numbers, and the exact booking sequence now that UWA's reservation hold is gone.
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Rushaga sector, limited
Four hours with a semi-habituated family instead of one. $1,500 through 2026, rising to $1,800 from January 2027.
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The $700 question
Same encounter, roughly half the permit cost. Where the extra transfer time in Uganda is, and isn't, worth it.
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Roughly half the world's remaining mountain gorillas, across four distinct trekking sectors.
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The Kazinga Channel, tree-climbing lions at Ishasha, and chimp tracking at Kyambura Gorge.
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The entire Victoria Nile forced through a seven-metre gorge, and the boat safari built around it.
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Bwindi · Nkuringo
Uganda's highest lodge, over 2,000m, eight volcanic-stone cottages with views to Rwanda and DR Congo.
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Murchison Falls
Eight riverside bandas on the Victoria Nile's southern bank, elephants visible from your own deck.
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Lake Mburo
An infinity pool carved directly into a granite kopje, overlooking buffalo and zebra in the valley below.
See the lodge →Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale, a Nile boat safari to the base of Murchison Falls, tree-climbing lions at Ishasha, shoebill storks at Mabamba — a Uganda safari is never just one encounter.
Every itinerary we build combines primates, classic savanna game viewing, and at least one experience most operators never mention.
See all experiencesA private plunge pool for two, or lodge-based programmes and alternating trek days for families with children under the gorilla trekking age limit — we plan around who's actually travelling.
Our honeymoon and family itineraries start from the same question: what does your specific group actually need this trip to be?
Honeymoon safarisWhat our travellers say
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Frequently asked
A standard permit costs $800 per person in peak season, or $600 during the low-season months of April, May, and November. See our full permit booking guide for the complete 2026–2027 pricing structure.
Uganda offers a significantly lower permit price and a larger habituated gorilla population; Rwanda offers a shorter transfer from Kigali. See our full comparison.
6–10 months ahead for peak season (June–September, December–February), 3–4 months for low season. Full detail in our permit guide.
Read our fully transparent, regularly updated honest safety assessment, including current status on regional health advisories.