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Uganda
The Pearl Of Africa
Being home of some of the last remaining Mountain Gorilla population, Uganda is home to a wide variety of attractions ranging from the white snow caped mountains, to lush green tropical rainforests inhabiting some of the amazing wildlife and landscapes as well as the “BIG FIVE” to be ticked off while on safari in the vast savanna grasslands. Other than watching for wildlife around your safari lodge/campsite and the smiling faces en-route as you explore the country, Uganda remains one of the safest destinations in Africa.
Top Uganda Safaris
Attractions in Uganda
Our Safari Destinations
BWINDI FOREST NATIOANL PARK
Bwindi is most notable for about 320 Mountain Gorillas, about half the world’s population of this critically endangered primate. Gazetted in 1991, the park rose to her peak after Gorilla tracking became a tourist activity in April of 1993, converting Bwindi into one of the most popular tourist destinations on earth.
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP), Uganda’s most popular savannah park, is located in western Uganda, approx. 438 kms/6 hrs southwest of Kampala.
Her 1,978 km² of open savannah, rainforest, dense papyrus swamps and brooding crater lakes extends from Lake George in the northeast to Lake Edward in the southwest and includes Maramagambo Forest and the Kazinga Channel that connects the two lakes.
KIBALE FOREST NATIONAL PARK
Kibale National Park, 320 kms/5 hrs from Kampala, is Uganda’s primates’ paradise, her 776 km² of moist evergreen rain forest home to the highest concentration of primates in the world – 13 species, including the much ‘localized’ Red Colobus as well as L’Hoest’s monkey.
The elusive forest elephant, smaller and hairier than its bush counterpart, moves seasonally into the park while other terrestrial mammals include buffalo, giant forest hog, Golden cat, Civet cat, leopard and half a dozen antelope species.
KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
Transected by Rivers Kidepo and Narus and well fed with ample rainfall, Kidepo is an oasis in the semi-desert; unsurpassed scenery, dense Acacia geradi forest along Lorupei River and breathtaking savannah landscapes dominated by Mt. Morungole (2750m).
The park’s extremely diverse flora and fauna includes over 500 species of birds and over 80 mammals species, (28 of which do not occur anywhere else in Ugandan), including the bat-eared fox, spotted hyena, cheetah and leopard, aardwolf, caracal, wild dogs, elephants, zebra, bush pigs, warthog, Rothschild giraffe, buffalo, Eland, bushbuck, bush duskier, defassa water buck, bohor reed buck, Jackson’s hartebeest and oribi as well as tree climbing lions; game viewing could never be better.
LAKE MBURO NATIOAL PARK
It is the smallest of Uganda’s Savanna national park, it has a markedly different fauna; it is the best place in Uganda where one can see the cape Eland, Zebra, Topi and Impala (for which Kampala is named). Hippos, crocodiles, and a variety of water birds are also found in the five lakes within the park while the fringing swamps hide secretive papyrus specialists such as the sitatunga as well as the red, black and yellow papyrus gonalek.
MGAHINGA GORILLA NATIONAL PARK
One of Uganda’s smallest parks at a mere 33.7 km², she encompasses the slopes of the three northern most Virunga Volcanoes – Muhavura (4,127 m), Gahinga (3,474
m) and Sabyinyo (3,645 m) – thus protecting the Ugandan part of the Virungas, their huge volcanic cones dominate her entire landscape.
SEMULIKI VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
Totally off the beaten track with breathtaking scenery and fuming 130ºC hot- springs, this rich mosaic of grassland savannah, tropical lowland forest, bamboo forest and wetland habitats is endowed with a correspondingly diverse fauna.
RWENZORI MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
Transected by Rivers Kidepo and Narus and well fed with ample rainfall, Kidepo is an oasis in the semi-desert; unsurpassed scenery, dense Acacia geradi forest along Lorupei River and breathtaking savannah landscapes dominated by Mt. Morungole (2750m).
The park’s extremely diverse flora and fauna includes over 500 species of birds and over 80 mammals species, (28 of which do not occur anywhere else in Ugandan), including the bat-eared fox, spotted hyena, cheetah and leopard, aardwolf, caracal, wild dogs, elephants, zebra, bush pigs, warthog, Rothschild giraffe, buffalo, Eland, bushbuck, bush duskier, defassa water buck, bohor reed buck, Jackson’s hartebeest and oribi as well as tree climbing lions; game viewing could never be better.