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A 2026 rule change removed temporary reservation holds. Permits now require full payment at booking. There is no way to soft-hold a date while you sort out flights, leave, or whether your travelling companion is actually coming.
For the peak window, June to August, 98% of permits are typically gone within three months of release.
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The practical consequence: for this trip the booking window, not the price, decides whether you go. Work backwards from the permit and fit everything else around it.
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Uganda requires proof of yellow fever vaccination for entry, dated at least ten days before you arrive.
Leave it too late and it is not a paperwork problem you resolve at the airport. It is a trip you cannot take.
€9–19 per day is expected and sincerely appreciated. It sits outside whatever you paid the operator, so budget it as its own line rather than discovering it on day one.
Uganda restricts civilian camouflage clothing. This is worth stating plainly because safari packing habits from other countries transfer badly here — muted greens and khakis are fine, actual camouflage patterns are not.
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Neither appears on a standard safari list, and both are the kind of thing you only learn from someone who has done the trek.
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