Nothing prepares you for Uganda
Uganda was the trip that genuinely moved me in a way I didn't see coming. You spend an hour sitting quietly in the jungle while a family of mountain gorillas moves around you completely unbothered and there's a moment where a silverback gorilla makes eye contact and you forget to breathe. Then you're rafting grade five rapids on the Nile the next day and lions are sleeping in fig trees the day after that. It's the most underrated country in Africa and I'll argue that with anyone.