Yoo hoo! 
The East Africa Travel Podcast has been a labour of love… my biggest project in many a year… with many long nights… and a steep learning curve. If you’ve noticed I’ve been quiet for a while, now you know why!
Are you ready? It’s easy to listen to the Podcast section of Diary of a Muzungu – just click here 
The East Africa Travel Podcast is inspired by life on the edge of Uganda’s Kibale Forest 
It’s a National Park famous for chimpanzees, forest elephants & African grey parrots.
Listen to the podcast for birdsong, travel advice, lively chats (& strictly positive vibes with a long list of brilliant conservationists in Africa and beyond, along with glowing endorsements from visitors from around the world).
Season 1 of the East Africa Travel Podcast launched in April 2024 with a Trailer and 20 episodes
Where do I start? 
- The 3 minute Trailer. You’ll LOVE the beginning!
- Episode 1 Welcome to my world! sets the scene with a glimpse of life at Sunbird Hill, Kibale Forest. I know you’ll love the forest sounds…
- Episode 2 Chimps, elephants and how I ended up in Uganda. Who am I? Which guests am I hosting?
- Episode 3, tune in to my conversation with the Nnaabagereka, Queen Sylvia of Buganda after she returns from gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka.
- Episode 4, Tickling a rhino and bowing to the Shoebill is my conversation with Rob Walker, the British sports commentator and Uganda’s official sports tourism ambassador. His excitement is infectious!
- In Episode 6, I am fascinated by every word uttered by primatologist / anthropologist Prof Richard Wrangham!
- In episode 9 guidebook author Philip Briggs and I are high up in the birdhide at Sunbird Hill.
- In episode 10, we watch “Warring warthogs on a walking safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park. I stay at the luxurious Honey Bear Camp, the only private concession in Kyambura Game Reserve (Wildplaces)
- In episode 7, I’m mesmerised by powerful Maasai music and uplifting conversations about sustainable tourism at the Original Maasai Lodge in Tanzania.
- In episode 11, hear why ecologist and field researcher Chris Ketola loves snakes and adores bats!
- In episode 13, entomologist Dr Michael Ochse and I examine the 100s of moths and insects buzzing around our heads one dark night!
- In episodes 15 and 16, I spend time with renowned conservationist and “self-confessed gorillaholic who’s been obsessed for 40 years!” Time with the irrepressible Ian Redmond OBE is always a learning experience.
- In Episode 20, listen out for baboons during my live chat with Pam Cunneyworth of Colobus Conservation of Diani, Kenya.
- And in between all the scintillating conversations… it’s just you and me, ambling along in nature, taking in the rich backdrop of birds and wildlife… you never know what we will hear and see together.
- Season 1 comprises 20 podcast episodes, all here on Diary of a Muzungu and all podcast directories.
- Season 2 is loading…
- Where next? Jinja in Uganda; Mombasa and Diani in Kenya; news from Uganda’s Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo and the Sustainable Tourism Summit in Kenya – and Kibale Forest, of course!
- Who are my next guests? Harriet Owalla (Kenyan travel journalist), Ikechi Uko (Nigerian and West African tourism guru), Rowan Martin (World Parrot Trust), Diani Turtle Watch … and many more lined up.
The Muzungu has a request! 
I would LOVE you to:
- Listen to the Trailer + at least one episode
- Share the podcast with your friends and everyone interested in travel in / to East Africa
- Leave a Review / Comment
- Why? Reviews + ratings mean the East Africa Travel Podcast will be shown to a bigger audience. Help me tell more people about this fabulously beautiful corner of our world.
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Click to listen on Apple Podcasts and go to the Show description to write a review and we’ll be friends forever 
Thanks for all your comments and questions. I LOVE hearing from you!
Wonderful podcast, noises of the African night, the singing of the birds by day! All to be enjoyed, and even better to go there and see and hear for yourself. Africa still has a dawn chorus!
You’re right: Africa – or certainly the villages and the bush – does still have a life-affirming variety of dawn choruses.
Here in Diani on Kenya’s Indian Ocean this week, I’m hearing rather different nocturnal noises: dwarf bushbabies!
They woke me up three times last night. I keep reaching for my recorder, but haven’t managed to capture their sound yet… I will keep trying (just for you). x
Thanks to everyone who has listened to the first 18 episodes!
What do you think so far? Where should I travel to next?
Who shall I speak to?
Upcoming conversations from Uganda and Kenya include:
Rowan Martin, World Parrot Trust
Pam Cunneyworth, Colobus Conservation
Harriet Owalla, travel jounalist from Nairobi
Serena Mombasa Resort and Spa
Mzee Silver Kyamukama, Sunbird Hill and In the Shadow of Chimpanzees
Diani Turtle Watch