Annotated lists of Uganda’s most alluring birds (downloadable PDF)

Please click on the link below for a PDF detailing the most interesting birds in Uganda for beginners and twitchers, as included in earlier editions of Bradt Uganda but removed from the 8th edition to keep down the length of the book. Uganda's Most Interesting Birds        

Self-drive tips (Downloadable PDF)

  Please click on this link below for a PDF of self-driving tips compiled by Dr Fritz Esch and included in earlier editions of Bradt Uganda.  self drive uganda 

Kampala and Tororo updates

Stefanie writes: Thank you very much for your travel book. It helped us a lot to find our way around in Uganda. I would like to add some new information: Kampala We went to the craft market in Buganda Road, in front of Plot 18. It is a wonderful small market, where you can buy …

Kampala and Jinja updates

Ulf writes: I'm writing this from our Entebbe-Kampala-Jinja-Lake Mburo trip and using the latest edition 8 Bradt I want to point out some additional info as well as some errata. Errata: Page 146, Kampala eat and drink: Most of the links on that page point to the map on page 104. This should read “page …

Mount Elgon trip report

  Wil Resing writes: I did an Elgon trek in February 2015. Five days, dry weather, hardly anyone in the huge national park. No tents needed. On page 266 you wrote "Once on the trail there is only hut for hikers ...". But I have seen the Sasa Camp hut (looked new, but it was closed), …

ViaVia Travellers Café, Entebbe

Pieter & Lobke of ViaVia Travellers Café, Entebbe write: We proudly wanted to inform you that we opened a new hotspot in Entebbe: TRCompanion in Rwanda has now relocated to Entebbe as ViaVia Travellers Café. VisVia is located on Kisalu Road, close to the airport, and has 9 rooms available for clients. There is also a dormitory …

Internet fraud warning

We have had two recent emails about similar incidents of internet fraud whilst transferring money to Uganda. One of the victims has asked us to  publicise what happened to him as a warning to other travellers. "We arranged our trip with an operator recommended in your guidebook. I had a lengthy email correspondence with the company's owner a year ago …