Uganda

With sustainably minded destinations and progressive tour operators advising passengers to pack less, are travellers being primed for an ultralight future?

These traditional healers are called emandwa, which means 'the man who has a spirit sit on his head'.

The 50-year-old MV Umoja that crosses Lake Victoria operates on no set schedule, offering a nostalgic look back at the way travel used to be – painfully, delightfully slow.

After devastating floods, mountain guides in western Uganda have begun rebuilding the lost trails, carving 22km of new routes through one of Africa's most beautiful alpine areas.

Roaming in southwestern Uganda, between the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, are the only 700 mountain gorillas estimated to be left in the wild.

Modelled after the Royal Ascot horse races in England, complete with outrageous outfits and hats, the Royal Ascot Goat Races have been an annual Kampala tradition since 1993.

A number of new initiatives are being put in place in Uganda to help safeguard the country’s environmental future and protect the world’s remaining wild mountain gorillas.

Trek to the depths of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to see some of the last remaining wild mountain gorillas at work, rest and play.