Fort Portal Tourist Attractions

If travelling to Uganda, Fort Portal is well worth a visit as there are many things to do there. The journey from Kampala takes around four hours and there is a reliable bus service along the well tarmaced road. The town borders Uganda's equatorial Kibale rainforest and is well known for its breathtaking scenery and is within distance of the stunning Rwenzori Mountains.

Amongst things to do in Fort Portal are visits to the Amabere Caves, the Tooro Botanical Gardens, a Royal Palace and tombs as well as guided walks taking in a crater lakes with their its bubbling source and, of course, visiting Fort Portal's famous tea plantations.

Semuliki National Park

This National park is next to the Semuliki and Lamia rivers and is located on Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Lake Albert to the park's north and the stunning Rwenzori Mountains to its south-east.

More >

Kibale National Park

Kibale National Park is considered one of the most beautiful in Uganda with terrain ranging from tropical forests to sweeping savannahs and woodlands on the Rift Valley floor. Located some 200 miles west of Kampala, the is home to around seventy mammal species as well as 375 species of birds.

More >

Amabere Caves

The caves, such as they are, are best experienced as part of an extended walk in the area which would also take in the waterfall at Amabere as well as the three local crater lakes. You can stand behind the waterfall and even swim while surrounded by colobus monkeys!

More >

Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary

About an hour from Fort Portal, the Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary borders Kibale National Park, which has the highest density of primate life in the world in its forests, and features eight primate species & more.

Visit Website >

Lake Albert

Lake Albert is located between the Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo in Western Uganda and is the most northern of the lakes in the in the Albertine Rift which straddles parts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania and is Africa's 7th largest lake.

More >