About Us / Why Travel With Us

THE NAME EARLY TRAILS EXPEDITION

Why Travel With Us, Our company name is derived from the daily safari experience. An early rise before dawn in search for game of our interest as the sky turns pink, then crimson, fading again into mute, cold colors until the sun breaks the horizon make us early trails expedition. We trail animal to their natural habitat as birds serenade the dawn. All trips or safari which start early morning lead to different wildlife destination basing on interest, our trips are led by a team of well-traveled experience licensed tour guides who join you throughout the expedition with a professional touch.

Early Trail Expedition

Early Trail Expedition is a registered Tourism Company by the government of Uganda. The company is managed by Ugandans born and bred offering outstanding safaris in Uganda and Rwanda. Our packages consist of emotional, adrinaline, physical, social and intellectual experience.

You will be spoiled for choice with our array of wildlife adventures such as mountain gorilla trekking, chimpanzee tracking, gorilla and Chimpazze habituation, birding, game drives, boat cruises, hikes, waterfall adventures among others.

We offer bespoke, independent vacations Honey moon packages, motorbike safaris, all inclusive packages, group tour customized to suit all your travel needs, budget and time. This core value creates a well-balanced adventurous and focused memorable expedition which creates an impact on the mindset. Our charismatic team of highly experienced and well-travelled team of guides will lead you on a tour of the century as you visit thick and rugged Bwindi Impenetrable forest; explore the thunderous Murchison falls, the amazing source of the river Nile among others.

Enjoy mind boggling local stories narrated to you by our guides as you travel to untapped Kidepo valley or the Ishasha sector to watch tree climbing lions. Travel back through time with a visit to the Ugandan museum, the Kabaka’s palace to see how the great kings lived and explore the indigenous tribes of the Batwa. Our days always end with a clean room, hot scrumptious meal and a hot shower as we carefully handpick the best accommodations that go above and beyond to ensure you are having the time of your life in Uganda.

We are committed towards wildlife conservation and sustainability by making a contribution towards activities that are driven towards the conservation of our beautiful natural resources such as encouraging tourists to use re-usable water bottles and not littering.

Our company cares about your safety; we personally plan all your travel activities and offer immediate medical help when needed with our vehicles always on standby.

1. Slogan

Explore, experience and reminisce a story with each trip

2. Vision

We strive to be the most efficient, transparent, innovative travel company through providing the best travel experiences that cater to all our customer needs and preferences with the help of our dedicated and well-travelled staff at the best prices.

3. Mission

Our mission is to provide a memorable, educative, fun filled travel adventure that caters to our customer unique tastes and preferences efficiently.

Core values

  • Customer focus
  • Team work
  • Transparency
  • Timely feedback
  • Innovation
  • Our integrity

Accountability policies

  • Pay any excess costs or additional expenses incurred.
  • Verifying travel arrangements before departure.
  • Reimbursements.

Our role in conservation

  • Encouraging our customers to recycle by placing bins in the car.
  • Reducing the use of disposable water bottles and advocating for reusable water bottles.
  • Partnering with ecofriendly hotels, lodges.
  • Engaging in community initiatives that help to clean the environment.
  • Using vehicles that emit less carbon to the atmosphere

Transparency policy

  • Transparency in financing with staff. The company runs an open book policy, communicating its margins, profits that assures our staff of job security and trust
  • Providing our customers with the best available information so as to make informed decisions when choosing to travel with us.
  • Sharing our shortcomings as a company and the solutions we have engineered to overcome them as well as communicating progress throughout the journey.
  • Sharing with our customers how much they are impacting the environment with their travel and ways how they can reduce their carbon footprint by showing the carbon emissions alongside their destinations cost.
  • Sharing information about how we book for accommodations, the criteria used and information about staff.
  • Pushing for more community based tours which ensures money stays in the communities.
  • Making sure the company’s we work with have a positive impact on the communities and the environment through partnering with ecofriendly service providers.