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Four safaris, built around birds rather than mileage

Every itinerary below is a real route we run, with the days paced so that you are in the right habitat at the right hour. All of them can be tailored.

Shoebill & Papyrus 01
Uganda · 3 days

Shoebill & Papyrus

A short, deliberate trip built around one bird. Three dawns on the water at Mabamba, paddled by the fishermen who now protect the swamp they once hunted.

  • Two dawn canoe sessions in the Mabamba channels, not one
  • Guided by fishermen-turned-conservationists from the landing site
  • Lutembe Bay at dusk for waders, terns and roosting pelicans
  • Entebbe Botanical Gardens for Great Blue Turaco within the city
From $890 pp sharing Day by day
Budongo & the Royal Mile 02
Uganda · 6 days

Budongo & the Royal Mile

The Royal Mile is the finest forest birding trail in East Africa, and Budongo has 360 recorded species. We pair it with the Albert Nile delta and its own resident Shoebills.

  • Two full mornings on the Royal Mile, Budongo
  • Black Bee-eater, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher and Ituri Batis
  • Boat launch to the base of Murchison Falls
  • The Albert Nile delta, where Shoebills stalk the papyrus fringe
From $2,150 pp sharing Day by day
The Rift Valley Lakes 03
Kenya · 8 days

The Rift Valley Lakes

Alkaline lakes strung along the floor of the Great Rift, where Lesser Flamingos gather in numbers that turn open water pink and the escarpment rises behind them.

  • Lesser and Greater Flamingo in flocks on Bogoria and Nakuru
  • Lake Naivasha by boat, and a walk on Crescent Island
  • Hell's Gate gorge on foot, beneath breeding Rüppell's Vultures
  • Kakamega Forest, the last Kenyan fragment of Guineo-Congolian rainforest
From $2,850 pp sharing Day by day
The Bird Year Grand Tour 04
Uganda · Rwanda · Kenya · 21 days

The Bird Year Grand Tour

Our flagship. Wetland, forest, montane rift and soda lake in one continuous journey — and the trip that funds a young African birder's place in the field for a year.

  • Every one of our four flagship destinations in one journey
  • Shoebill at Mabamba and again on the Albert Nile delta
  • Albertine Rift endemics at Ruhija and Mubwindi Swamp
  • The Nyungwe canopy walkway, 60 metres above the forest floor
From $6,900 pp sharing Day by day
Not quite right?

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Tell us the species you still need and how many days you have. A guide will come back with a route, not a brochure.

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