Become part of a Merit Safaris ecotour. We focus on low impact responsible tourism in areas of natural beauty where local communities benefit directly from your visit . Please take time to read our popular carefully designed tour programme available from the link below.
TOUR UG13: ECO TOURISM IN THE PEARL (16 DAYS)
Our clients stay at ‘exclusive, stylish and eco-friendly’ properties in Uganda and Rwanda. While providing high levels of comfort and elegance, we have remained committed to eco-friendly principles. We believe that providing western standards of comfort in remote areas of Africa needs to be balanced with the impact of international travellers on the environment. We make our contribution to minimizing environmental disturbance by booking our clients at properties which use a variety of natural energy sources, especially solar power; reducing water consumption and controlling waste disposal. Most of all we respect and work with local populations and recruit staff from their communities.
A wide variety of species can be seen in the game parks including elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, zebra, hippo, warthog, forest hog, hyena, giraffe and different antelope species. Game viewing is also free of the mass tourism found in some other African countries. Primates, especially the mountain gorilla and chimpanzee, are a special attraction, together with over a thousand species of birds and a wide variety of butterflies.
