Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is the only place in Uganda where wild rhino can be seen, and the centrepiece of the national effort to return the species to a country where they were poached to extinction in the early 1980s. Spread across some 70 square kilometres of savanna and wetland on the road north to Murchison Falls, it protects a growing population of southern white rhino, each monitored around the clock by dedicated rangers. The sanctuary’s signature experience is rhino tracking on foot — guided, safe and thrilling — which brings you within metres of these enormous animals in the bush, a very different encounter from a game drive. It also offers a canoe trip in search of the shoebill, night nature walks and rich birding, making it both a meaningful conservation visit and a natural stop en route to the north.

Every game drive or primate trek in this landscape feels intensely focused and intimate. By limiting commercial vehicle densities and prioritizing deep natural tracking, the landscape preserves the profound silence and uninterrupted cycles of the wild.