Getting to Uganda – Flying to Uganda for your Safari in 2023-2024
Flying to Uganda for your Safari – Practical Tips and Advice for those going on a Safari in Uganda
Flying to Uganda for your Safari is becoming more manageable since more airlines are flying to Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. We give you practical and helpful information to pass on to Uganda for your Safari. This includes Entrance requirements with Visa Information, Yellow Fever Certificates, and Customs monetary requirements for Travelers and Visitors to the Pearl of Africa.
Flying to Uganda for your Safari directly from Brussels with Brussels Airlines, Amsterdam with KLM, and London, will soon be a direct flight with Uganda Airlines. Direct flights to Uganda are available from Cairo with Egyptian Airlines, Istanbul, Turkey with Turkish Airlines, Dubai with Emirates or Uganda Airlines, and Doha with Qatar Airlines.
There are no direct flights from North America to Uganda. However, you can fly Kenya Airways directly from NYC to Nairobi, Kenya, and take a short flight to Uganda.
In Africa, you can fly directly from and to Cairo, Egypt; Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Mombasa, Kenya; dares Salam, or Arusha and Zanzibar in Tanzania.
Flying to Uganda for your Safari with the Crested Crane – Uganda Airlines
Uganda Airlines flies to many African and Mideastern and entirely to the UK, India, and China. Uganda Airlines is the national carrier and has a new short-range and long-range planes with excellent service during, before, and after your flights.
Uganda is one of Africa’s best-re-emerging airlines. Hopefully, they will soon fly to the USA, Canada, and Australia since that would tremendously aid Tourism.
Read more about flying the Crested Crane to Uganda:
Do this before Flying to Uganda for your Safari:
- Plan your Safari in Uganda: Book your Safari with an accredited, experienced Safari Tour Operator. Read more here about Safari planning.
- Valid Passport: You must have a valid passport for at least six more months with enough free pages for visa stamps.
- Get your Uganda Tourist Visa online: Get your Ugandan Tourist Visa or East African Tourist Visa, which is good for Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda.
- Make an appointment with your doctor or Tropical Clinic: You will need a Yellow Fever Certificate, Malaria Regimen, and other immunizations you might be advised to take. We further suggest that you read “Staying Healthy on your Safari.”
- Gorilla Trekking Fitness: If you will be Primate Trekking, hi, king or Volcano C,limg we surest that you get into reasonable before to your Safari. Read more about Trekking Fitness.
- Packing for your Safari in Uganda: Packing for your Safari.
Flying to Uganda for your Safari:
Your Arrival at Entebbe International Airport:
Entebbe International Airport is the only international airport in Uganda, and this will soon change when the airport near the town of Hoima is completed. Entebbe International Airport is the Gateway to Uganda for most tourists arriving in Uganda.
Below you will read what you can expect when you arrive at the Entebbe International Airport.
- Disembark the plane and enter Immigration Processing: Approach immigration with your passport, email with bar code for your visa, Yellow Fever Certificate, your safari itinerary,y, and proof of return flight y=to your home.
- Get your Luggage: There are free luggage carts for you to use. Read what to do in the case of lost Luggage.
- Go through Customs: Customs for tourists usually is hassle-free.
- Exit the airport, and there is the Arrival Aread: Your Safari Driver-Guide will meet and greet you before taking you to your hotel for the night.
Read more about Entebbe Airport here:
Flying Home after your Safari in Uganda
Departure for Home from Entebbe International Airport:
The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority recommends that you arrive at the airport three hours before your flight departure.
You will find that security is at high levels, including entering the airport grounds with a vehicle.
There are duty-free shops and restaurants within the departure area.
Alternative to Flying to Uganda for your Safari:
Fly into Rwanda and Trek Gorillas in Uganda:
Kigali International Airport is not only the airport for Rwanda but also a regional airport that serves the Kivu Province of DR Congo and Southwest Uganda. It is the closes airport to Mgahinga Gorilla Park and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Though you can do Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda, it is more affordable in Uganda, where a Gorilla Permit is$700 and not $1,500 like in Rwanda. Many of our Clients fly into Rwanda and, at the end of their Safari, fly out of Entebbe.
It is only a three-hour drive to Mgahinga Gorilla Park and a four-hour drive to the Rushagga ore Nkuringo areas of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Read more about flying to Kigali, Rwanda, for your Safari in Uganda.
