Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is a two-hour drive from Kampala, along the road to Gulu (on the way to Murchison Falls National Park). Rhinos roam freely in an area of 7,000 hectares of dry combretum savannah, laced with swamps and the cactus-like euphorbia candelabrum trees.

Uganda’s rhinos became extinct in the early 1980s, after a period of civil unrest and heavy poaching. This sanctuary is a not-for-profit project that was established to breed black and white rhino, and restore rhino populations in Uganda’s protected areas in a later stage. Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary can house about 50 rhinos; it will take a while before those numbers are reached.

You can track the rhinos, walk and even camp in the bush, visit the information centre and craft shop, enjoy the prize-winning cattle, look out for bush buck, leopard, Uganda kob, oribi, crocodiles, hippo and other wildlife present on the ranch. The bird life is abundant, with even the rare shoebill stork present in the Lugogo Swamps. Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary offers peace and tranquility in beautiful surroundings.