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Explore Uganda like a Local. Plan yourself drive or guided tour in Uganda with Drive Uganda. We are Uganda’s Top Rated Car Rental & 4x4 Hire Company. Discover our Road Trips & book discounted rental cars for self-drive safaris in Uganda. If you’re looking for a reliable car rental agency which is yet affordable, you’ve stopped at the right place. Wild Self Drive Limited offers you the opportunity to visit Uganda in the comfort and style to which you are accustomed, whether it is the luxury or budget safari. Book a car for self-drive with us and Explore Uganda like a Local. Plan yourself drive tour itinerary in Uganda with us. Discover our trips & book discounted rental cars for self-drive in Uganda. We have great 4×4 vehicles, vans and mid buses for group travel, customised safari vehicles that suit wildlife safaris in national parks. For normal travels, we have great 2wd saloon vehicles for hire including Toyota Premios, Toyota Noah as well as good comfortable SUVs for business trips. Rent a Car with us today and Explore Uganda! We are Now serving pickup and drop offs in Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania!
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For your ultimate customized safari you definitely need a guide to move you to those different destinations that you need to go after customizing your safari. These driver guides know which “right button to press” when it comes to adventure. We make you a customized itinerary that suits exactly your preferred destinations and still maintain your own pace. This is a great idea for those that do not fancy driving on our challenging roads themselves and like the company of a guide who can give you deeper insights into Ugandan culture and wildlife. Besides, you can see more of the beautiful landscapes and animals, people, their culture and the beautiful scenery. Many people find that self drive in Uganda requires their complete attention meaning they sometimes miss some of the wildlife and incredible sceneries. Our driver guides are all experienced drivers, guides and mechanics. All have been around with many tourists giving them the experience to move you around as you relax and enjoy the country. They can give you insights into Ugandan culture and tell all stories about the daily life of Ugandans, people, birds and animals.
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Life’s easier when you book a rental car for self-drive with us. Choose a car that you would like to use and book online! We will pick up you up from the Entebbe Airport or drop off a car to your desired location. Choose the right vehicle for you, and book it in for a few hours. Drive away to your desired location. Go somewhere fun, get to a meeting or explore Uganda with your wheels.
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Enjoy a guided tour in Uganda or travel in comforts. Enjoy first Chauffeur Service while in Uganda. Are you a tourist looking to an affordable guided Uganda safari? We have professional and well informed tour guides to take you around Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. Whether you are looking to a gorilla safari in Bwindi, wildlife safari or a camping safari, just get in touch with us!
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Our 4×4 fleet has been built around the best cars including Toyota Rav4 and Toyota Land Cruisers that are tough, durable and for off road situations the ultimate 4WD vehicle. Our fleet also includes a range of 2WD’s that include Toyota Corona, Premios, Ipsums, Noah and other popular models. Enjoy more affordable and exciting car rentals with us. We are your car rental and transportation experts that deliver prompt service and creative solutions. Contact us now for fantastic deals and packages at prices that won’t break your budget.
Why Rent a Car With Us?
- Self-Drive Rental cars from $30 per day.
- Enjoy the extra space of a mid-size touring rental car at no extra cost.
- No compromising comfort for price with a car from Drive Uganda.
- Get the car keys from the airport on arrival or at your hotel.
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Self Drive Car Hire Terms & Conditions
We deliver rental cars anywhere in Uganda and Rwanda (Terms and Conditions apply). Delivery to the airport and to most hotels is free. Renters may return vehicle to our office or have it picked up from their hotels or Airport.
A valid driving license from the country of residence or an international driving permit is required for self-drive car hire with us. The hirer must be over 20 – 70 years of age and have held a valid driving license for a minimum of 2 years. He must also be in possession of proper means of identification other than a driving license. The company reserve the right not to rent to any person it sees fit.
Persons desiring to drive the vehicle must be authorized by the company and recorded on the rental agreement. The qualification requirements of an additional driver are the same as those for the renter (see above, – Who may rent vehicles?). If the car found driven by an unauthorized person, then all protections and insurance provided under the agreement are voided.
Upon confirming the vehicle required, at least 30% deposit required paid by Visa or Master card or by PayPal. The balance is paid on the day you are picking the vehicle.
All our vehicles are comprehensively insured. Loss/damage of tyres / tires, tools and windscreens/glasses are not covered by insurance.
The quotation for self-drive car hire includes comprehensive car insurance cover, Unlimited mileage, 24 hour road assistance and Taxes.
The vehicle must be locked when unattended. The Hirer is responsible for the security of vehicle. The Hirer must not carry passengers for reward or gain. The hirer should not drive at night beyond 6:30pm.
Cars hired for self-drive are subject to the Company’s standard form of agreement. Notwithstanding the above conditions the Company reserves the right to refuse a hire at any time without assigning any reasons.
Self-drive rates exclude Fuel / Gas and Oil.
Whereas our rental cars are well maintained and regularly serviced, sometimes things may go wrong. We operate a 24-hour support service, just a telephone call away, we respond promptly. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT to repair the vehicle. The renter may not effect any repair on the vehicle unless authorized by the company to do so
The rental day is normally considered 24 hours after the vehicle is delivered to the renter.
All accidents must be reported. In case of an accident, the renter is required to obtain data from the other party/parties (license #, Name, Insurance Company, telephone numbers etc) and then call our company immediately. The renter should not leave the scene until the police and/or one of our agents appear at the scene. The renter also agrees that he/she will assist the company in completing a formal report for the insurance company
The company at its sole discretion, will repossess the vehicle at any time if :
- Vehicle is left abandoned
- Client fails to pay for rental and or charges
- Agreed return date and time has elapsed
- Vehicle is discovered to be driven in a reckless manner, or used for any purpose not permitted under the agreement
- Vehicle is discovered to be driven by an unauthorized person
- Vehicle was obtained using fictitious information
- Agreement is breached.
- Renter was involved in an accident
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We offer camping gear for those that enjoy testing life in its natural setting. Be the first to hear the birds sing in the trees, see the sun rays as they penetrate through the clouds feeling the sky with a bright African morning. Be the first to hear the rain drops on your tent and be the first to taste the sweet smelling flowers of the morning.
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Planning to take a road safari around Uganda? Here are a few things you’ll need to know before your Uganda self-driving holiday begins
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Self-drive 4×4’s for Uganda’s rough terrain and discovers what real off road driving is all about.
Travel in our luxury, Safari equipped Toyota Land cruisers with roof viewing hatches and experienced guides.
Self-drive a 4WD with friends and experience the delights of camping in areas not frequented by the traditional tourist.
We have experienced guides and exclusive safari vehicles to escort you on the grand safari route or for the more adventurous we can offer rugged 4WD vehicles for the self-drive DIY safaris.
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Affordable and Comfortable Cars
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Affordable and Comfortable Cars
V8 WITH TENT
@ USD 130$ per day
LAND CRUISER 2 TENTS
@ USD 150$ per day
TX WITH TENT
@ USD 90$ per day
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Toyota Land Cruiser
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Toyota hard Top
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Nissan Patrol
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Toyota Hard Top
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Toyota Rav 4
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Safari Van
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Safari Land Cruiser
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Mbarara
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Entebbe
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Kampala
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Jinja
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Kabale
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FortPortal
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Masaka
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Gulu
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Dodoma
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Nairobi
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Kigali
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Daressalaam
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Other Transport Services we offer
Airport Transfers
We offer to our esteemed customers cars for hire to take them to or out of Entebbe International Airport. The traveller can opt for self-drive or chauffeur driven car
Gorilla Permit Bookings
We help clients to get gorilla booking permits i the shortest time possible without themselves over hustling.
City Tours
We rent cars to the travellers who tend to take a tour around Kampala city to encounter the different historical and cultural sites in Uganda.
Safaris And Tours
self-drive in Uganda hires vehicles for self-drive safaris in the various national parks in Uganda i.e. queen Elizabeth national park, Murchison falls national park, etx
Chimpanzee Permit Bookings
We offer to our esteemed customers free gorilla and chimpanzee permits wherever they wish to go.
Road Assistance
We offer free assistance to our esteemed customers in regards to following and using roads.
One way Car Rentals
We are also available for customers who want to use cars for only one way ie without coming back.
Hotel and Lodge Bookings
We also help our clients in booking accomodation facilities.
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Review our guiding Content below
Uganda is a great country for camping, as there are many campsites around the country.
Contact us for your camping adventure in Uganda .This involves availing you a great tour vehicle plus booking all the required camping gear including camper tents, sleeping bags , blankets, mattresses, lantern lamps, cooking equipment like frying pans, spoons, forks, cups, plastic plates to mention but a few to ensure you enjoy every bit of your safari.
Whether you are on a budget trip or love the outdoor activities, road tripping with a full set of camping gear in the back of the car gives you a great sense of flexibility.
Budget travellers can self-drive 4WDs with friends and experience the joy of camping in areas not frequented by the traditional tourist. These are ecotourism sites that are not yet exploited. They are unique and unhampered with giving you total relaxation while in these environs.
We have basic camping equipment to enable you to enjoy the great outdoors for which Uganda provides some exquisite settings. These include;
- 2 man dome/bow tents with mattresses
- Folding chairs and tables,
- Cutlery and cooking equipment including cooking gas
In case you need to have a camping safari or equipment on your Uganda safari, please feel free to contact us .It will be offered to you at a fair price
Uganda is a great touring destination that you should explore. Browse our 200+ tour suggestions for ideas and inspiration and then get in touch with our team to see how easily we can make it all happen. We have experience in organizing personalized Uganda Safaris that are well crafted to cater for different interests. These personalized tour itineraries are tailored to suit your safari needs. In planning your safari we will help you with:
- Route Planning
- Making Hotel or Lodge Booking
- Camping Gear
- Special Interest Safaris
- Specialised Wildlife Safaris
- Photographic Expeditions
- Ornithological Expeditions
- Fishing Expeditions
- Camping Safaris
Stretched Land Cruiser
The stretched model of the Toyota Land cruiser fit six adults comfortably. They have a pop-up safari roof hatch that can open when you are on a game drive like in Queen Elizabeth National park, Kidepo, park, Murchison Falls Park and Lake Mburo National park. You will be able to see every game from your car.
Land Cruiser with Roof Tent
These are beautiful and sturdy rooftop tents that offer the best ultimate safari adventure experiences in Uganda. These sturdy rooftop tents are made in South Africa and made of the highest standard rip stop canvas. It fits 2 adults.
No one would love to be cheated any single dollar, so it is important to know the fuel prices while in Uganda.
To save at the fuel pump, you need to first scout around town for cheap fuel prices before you fill your tank. Some fuel stations offer different oil prices depending on the competition in the different localities and towns.
When you need fuel, just put it in and pay the Pump attendant in cash. Always remember to ask for a receipt if you need accountability. You could arrange for the driver to have a float and you settle later but it is just so much simpler to pay yourself as you go. Take it full, bring it back full: Such arrangements are not particularly common in Uganda. When you’re travelling to remote areas of Uganda and you need more than 100 litres of Diesel, be sure to first calculate the amount of fuel you will need. The formula is 1 litter for every 7Km works for most diesel cars multiply by the distance, multiply by 2, then multiply by the prevailing cost of diesel in Uganda. Once you know the amount of fuel you need, fill your tank. Please note that there some fake fuel stations with unbalanced scales, especially if you’re buying much fuel.
Buying all your fuel from Kampala will help you save on your fuel costs as you may find the price of the fuel doubled in some remote districts of Uganda. In regions like Karamoja you might even find no fuel in a whole district at the time you need it, therefore you remain safe buying all your fuel for the trip at once, near Kampala where fuel prices are relatively reasonable because of the stiff competition though some remote fuel stations hike the fuel prices.
Some Ugandan drivers normally assume that it is better to fuel your car very early in the morning or very late in the evening when the sun is setting. Their reasoning is that there is reduced vaporization of the fuel in the tank and thus the fuel tends to stay longer in the vehicle when the car is fuelled during these times of the day!
Every time that you re-fuel, check your oil and other fluid levels. Look for noticeable leaks throughout the engine compartment.
Drive The Great African Off-Road Adventure Yourself!
Dare to enjoy the African adventure in the ultimate off-road vehicle! We have great 4×4 safari rentals for travellers looking to explore Uganda on their own. Choose from small Toyota Rav4 to sophiscated extended Land Cruisers. Our cars are highly dependable given that they are maintained to the highest standards and have proven themselves the best vehicles to use on some of the most harsh terrain in national parks and game reserves in Uganda.
Best Cars for Self-Drive in Uganda
Driving Conditions
Driving conditions can be awesome for the off-roader and we know that you will become entranced by the whole of the unique Uganda experience.
Uganda has Safe, Secure Lodges and Hotels:
Hotels and lodges in Uganda are very secure and you will be surprised by the security that is exhibited by many of them even as you enter by vehicle into the premises such as the Serena Hotel or the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala. Let it be a 2 or 3 star accommodation. Security is paramount in Uganda. We choose safe and secure lodges for you both in Kampala and in the National Parks of Uganda.
You will be surprised that most often the security at a hotel or lodge is armed – they most likely have not used their weapons in many years but it is there for the added security for visitors to Uganda.
Uganda National Park Security addressed.
Any tourist would have varying questions of how their safety will be in Uganda’s National Parks.
On every game drive in Uganda’s national parks, an armed ranger is with you for your protection. The same is true on every hike or nature walk.
The Uganda government has even added Tourism Police for added security for visitors to the various parks, hotels, and various places where tourists flock too. Your well-being is on everyone’s mind and security in parks is practiced in the most diligent manner in Uganda.
Tourism is a top-income earner for Uganda and no one wants to jeopardize the goose that lays the golden egg.
Crime Threats
Crime, specifically violent crime has reduced significantly in Uganda. A sharp increase in the number of police on the street has cut reported incidents of crime in half in the Kampala metropolitan area according to the Inspector General of Police. The U.S. Mission has also observed a decrease in reported crimes. Pick-pocketing, “snatch and run” thefts (including from occupied and unoccupied vehicles) along with other petty and opportunistic crimes are still common in Kampala but rarely involve acts of violence
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Akagera National Park
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Bwindi Impenerable National Park
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Elgon National Park
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Kidepo Valley National Park
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Lake Mburo National Park
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Masai Mara Kenya
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Mgahinga National Park
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Murchison Falls National Park
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Queen Elizabeth National Park
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Mountain Rwenzori National Park
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Semuliki National Park
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Virunga National Park
Tips to Travel well in Uganda
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Wild Self Drive Limited is here to answer all your questions that you may be having before you book your holiday in Uganda and any other East African Region. Please out of the following questions below, if you have any that you would like us to answer you, contact one of our African Travel Expert/Consultant.
Renting a vehicle, especially 4×4 WD, you will have the freedom to explore most Uganda’s beautiful tourist’s wilderness places at your own timetable pace. The only issue is that Uganda’s beautiful areas are distant and requires long drives and at the end the hospitable people and undulating sceneries makes your holiday adventurous and memorable. For your holiday to visit the pearl of Africa, expect to rent SUV vehicles very cheap but reliable fleets from as low as $ 45 Rav4 4×4, 5 doors or 3 doors and 70 USD for the Land Cruiser Prado and this offer applies to the long-term rental in Uganda.
While driving in any area in Uganda, we do not advise to drive at early morning before 06 am, evening after 06 pm and late in the night, for security purpose of the vehicle and clients. Also when driving in Uganda, be observant as the local may cross at any time without your notification especially in trading centres, domestic animals like cows, sheep and goats on the road. Always fasten the seat belt and drive on the left-hand side of the road, drive 50 km/h in towns and 80 km/h on the highway, fuel up the vehicle in last town before you enter into the park as there is no fuel point and always check radiator water daily.
Hiring a jeep in Uganda, you must have a valid International Driver’s license or your country-issued Driver’s license and it has to be in English and must be valid for the period of 6 months. Our car rental booking assistance team will guide you with your booking process as well as the documents you need for booking and driving a car rental in Uganda.
Yes for any tourist to enter Africa you need to have a valid passport for like 6 month or more and then buy Visa either at the Counsel department in your country of the country that you are visiting. Countries like (Kenya, Rwanda & Uganda) have a common Tourist Visa that can allow enter the 3 countries on your joint trip which cost $ 100 USD and valid for 90 days and you can apply this at the Embassy of any countries mentioned in your country. But if you are visiting one country the Visa fees are: Uganda $ 100 USD, Kenya $ 50 USD, Rwanda from $ 30-50 USD depending on the country you are coming from, and Tanzania $ 50-100 USD depending to you where you come from.
These primates experience takes in 2 East African Countries (Uganda & Rwanda) and it takes in the morning and around noon it is done and while entering the forest you are accompanied with the rangers equipped to guard you from any attack in the forest, you can also trek gorilla in the Virunga Congo with the authorities from Virunga National Park and they offer tight security to visitors. Read More
For any traveller to visit East Africa/Africa security is a key factor that one has to consider, and generally speaking as Travel Expert on ground i have to say that East Africa is safe from the terrorism attack, Ebola & Cholera, Water Bilharzia and other dangerous diseases.
The African weather is always conducive due to the rainy and sunny season and it is so much friendly to all humans, through in some places you find that it’s hot and others very cold. So it advised to all clients visiting Africa to travel with both warm and cold weather clothes.
For the camping trips and willing to cook your own food, there are several groceries like Nakumatt, Shoprite, Tuskys and Game shopping shops, providing packed food stuffs, mineral water and before you leave for your safari, do your shopping from these stores in the main towns of Uganda.
Are you planning for your holiday in Uganda, you are required to have the yellow fever vaccination certificate and malaria. Read more
For your car rental booking your payments includes the fee for the vehicle, comprehensive insurance (theft, damage and accident) for the vehicle and clients are advised to come with their life and belongings insurance.
In Uganda tipping is not a must and you can only give a tip depending on your safari satisfaction from the experience of your guide.
We offer tours with the stay in clean safari camps and you can choose to take the Banda’s or the Lazy safari tents or we can offer mobile tents and camp in our recommended safari camps.
We offer various types of vehicles like Rav4 4×4, Land Cruiser TX or TZ, GX, Safari Land Cruiser, Hiace Super Customs with the roof top hatch for the wildlife viewing on your game drives.
Uganda is conducive with good weather and you do not need to carry heavy clothes though in the night to places like Bwindi & Virunga slopes you need warm clothes and day time carry light attires.
To take a photo of the local people take the descent one which does not abuse someone’s rights, but in the national parks for the wildlife you can take in any style that does not abuse the conservation of the wildlife.
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