Some of our safari guides at Wild Jungle Trails
Wild Jungle Trails
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2012)
- Member Of:
- Association of Uganda Tour Operators, UWA & Uganda Tourism Board
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $100 to $450 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Loe and Sue | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
18 day safari
My wife and I have been to Africa 6 times and know what we want. Wild Jungle Trails was willing to create a custom trip and give advice on each aspect of the trip with a series of emails and Whats App phone calls. We also booked a couple lodges on our own. They helped evaluate lodges that we reviewed on Trip Advisor and gave accurate advice on how much time to spend at each of the 8 major parks and stops we made. They scheduled a custom domestic flight, sending a driver 2 days north to Kidepo to meet us at the airstrip and stay with us for 18 days. Most people do not spend that much time in Uganda. We were tired at the end, but not from any stress caused by any mistakes by the company.
Fred was our guide/driver. He quickly learned what we like and successfully helped to pace us while not missing anything on our self-created itinerary. We stopped numerous times for unplanned activities like spraying cattle with the locals, “helping” a tea harvesting group, paddling a dugout canoe, finding a fisherman to sell us a paddle for our paddle collection, visiting a pangolin sanctuary I found on Google Maps, helping buy gifts to deliver to our sponsored child and much more. His phone contact list is impressive, and he always knew who to call to make our trip smooth and fix any problems. He found lions and leopards on game drives through his connections with other guides he knew or met at our lodges the night before.
We requested a Land Cruiser, and their vehicle was always clean and was well maintained. Not an easy thing to do in Africa. Fred was a very safe driver in challenging conditions.
I consider managing expectations and communicating what is going to happen next the two most important aspects of guiding other than safety. I employed 35 guides a year for 34 years and know the tourism business. Fred communicated perfectly and was always ready on time if not early.
The main reason we chose Uganda was to visit mountain gorillas and chimps. Wild Jungle easily got our permits, and we successfully visited 2 gorilla families and a chimp family. Uganda’s permits are much less expensive that the other choice in Rwanda.
We chose the habituation hike with chimps and were glad we did. It wasn’t much more money, and we got quite a bit of private viewing time with the chimps. They took us to a family that was already habituated, but we got there before the crowds and stayed long after the crowd left.
Wild Jungle is a small company, and we liked the personal service that afforded. Their price was fair as well. We highly recommend Wild Jungle Trails if you are considering travelling to Uganda.
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Email Chris | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A local tour operator that listens, is flexible and patient and in addition very caring and helpful.
My girl-friend always wanted to go to Uganda to see the Mountain-Gorillas and this year wi did it. We chose a tour operator in Uganda, because we thougt they know best. And that was the best idea. From the very first minute, Sharl from Wild Jungle Trails was so helpful and understanding and patient woith us. She listened to what we wanted and set up the perfect package for us. Our guide Fred was also excellent. We were having issues with our flight which led to an extremly tight schedule on the first day. But he managed to fast lane us through the immigration so we didn´t lose more time. Also he proofed to be very flexible and was well networked with all the other guides so we always had the best sightings. We really had an awesome time with a lot of super-friendly people and an amazing itenary which was so varied, too. That was what we were hoping for and Wild Jungle Trails made it happen for us. Regards from Claudia & Chris