Hi Simon, Semliki is rarely visited except by keen birders (for its unique endemics) and by those traveling between Kyaninga Lodge, Fort Portal, and Semliki Lodge, for example. I confess I still haven’t visited Semliki! I was invited there in 2010 but declined. Even then I knew I would want to stay in Uganda indefinitely! So I thought “let me save Semliki for another day…” – I sense that day approaching 🙂

One of my favourite places when I visited Uganda back in 2001 was Semiliki national park (the forest section as opposed to the savannah). I wondered if that’s regularly visited by tourists these days? After nearly bouncing off the back of a pick up whilst driving down an escarpment overlooking the Congo basin, we arrived to find very surprised looking rangers. They opened up a very dusty old visitors book and we discovered we were the first foreigners to visit in years. We camped near a Batwa village and were woken by the hoots of chimps. The walks through dense rainforest and past steaming swamps with hot springs fulfilled all of my fantasies of primeval African jungle.