One of the most alluring features of Uganda is its forests. In fact Uganda is home to the most easterly extension of the massive rainforest which blankets much of West and Central Africa.

More than 500 forest reserves support a wide variety of mammal and bird species, which are not present anywhere else in East or Southern Africa.

Three of Uganda's national parks are montane parks and support montane and bamboo forests up to around 3,000 metres above sea level.

One of the National Parks in the west of the country, the Kibale Forest, features a wild coffee trail where visitors can follow a footpath through the primary forest to see these rare and special indigenous coffee trees, not found anywhere else in the world.