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MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK
Most powerful falls
Murchison Falls National Park is a top Uganda Safari destination and its best attraction is a Paara boat stretch to the bottom of the falls. The Park sits on the shore of Lake Albert in northwest Uganda.
It’s known for Murchison Falls, where the Victoria Nile River surges through a narrow gap over a massive drop. The park's endowed with big game, including elephants and hippos, and you could catch sight of the chimpanzee in the Kanyiyo Padidi mahogany forest. The Lake Albert Delta is home to rare shoebill storks. There is game fishing in the cascades of Karuma Falls.
What to experience
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- Visit the top of the falls
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- Game drives
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- Birding
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- Community tour
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- Nature walk
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- Boat Cruz
To see
Lions
Leapard
Hippos
Buffalo
Elephants
Getting there.
Location
Masindi
Size
3,840km2
Altitude
127 m
QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
Your popular destination
Few reserves in the world can boast such a high biodiversity rating and with landscapes including savannah, bushland, wetlands and lush forests.
Covering 1978 sq km, scenic Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the most popular parks in Uganda.
The park is inhabited by 96 species of mammals, including healthy numbers of hippos, elephants, lions and leopards as well as chimps and hyenas.
To see
Birds
Lions
Buffalo
Elephants
What to experience
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- Lion tracking
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- Game drives
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- Birding
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- Community tour
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- Nature walk
Getting there
Location
Kasese District
Size
1,978km²
Altitude
1,300m
KIDEPPO VALLEY
The true wilderness
Considered one of the most remote safari parks in Africa, Kidepo Valley National Park is most notable for harboring a number of animals found nowhere else in Uganda, including cheetahs, bat-eared foxes, aardwolves, caracal, and greater and lesser kudus.
Amazingly, most of the animals, including even the occasional lion, are content to graze and lounge right near the park accommodation, so you can see a whole lot without going very far –
a kind of armchair safari.
What to experience
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- Game drives
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- Bird watching
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- Nature walk
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- Hiking
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- Karimojong community culture tours
To see
Lions
Uganda kob
Giraffes
Buffalo
Ostrich
Getting there.
Location
karamoja District
Size
1,442km2
Altitude
914m and 2,750m
LAKE MBURO
The spark in the west
Lake Mburo National Park presents an excellent punch to Uganda's wildlife viewing destinations. First of all, it's an arm’s reach from the capital, and it's a great stop on long journeys to the southwestern Uganda safari circuit. It’s the only place in southwestern Uganda to host zebras and the only park in the country with impalas, slender mongoose, and giant bush rats.
This small savannah park, an underrated Uganda safari gem dominated by a lake, with its forest-fringed shores hemmed in by rolling green hills, is scenically reminiscent of the more celebrated Lake Naivasha in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Due to the absence of the big savannah game players like the elephants and lions, Lake Mburo offers exhilarating walking safari experiences for viewing game on foot and horseback. Well, it's the only park in Uganda where you can view animals on foot.
What to experience
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- Nature walks
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- Day and night game drives
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- Bird watching
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- Boat Cruz
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- Horseback safari
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- Cycling safaris
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- Sport fishing
To see
Hippo
Zebra
Birds
Impala
Uganda Kob
Getting there.
Location
Nyabushozi County, Kiruhura District
Size
370 km2
Altitude
1,220m – 1,828m above sea level
MOUNTAIN RWENZORI
The mountains of the moon
Rwenzori Mountains National Park encompasses the legendary Rwenzori mountains dubbed the mountains of the Moon, where the highest snow-peak in the country (second-highest on the continent) pervades the East African clouds.
The ranges are a combination of beautiful peaks, glaciers, Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, and various species of flora and fauna, making the Rwenzori scenic.
The stratified vegetation is one of the main attractions for visitors.
To see
Lots of birds
What to experience
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- Community visits
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- Mountain climbing
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- Birding
Getting there.
Location
Nyabushozi County, Kiruhura District
Size
370 km2
Altitude
1,220m – 1,828m above sea level
KIBALE PARK
Access true beauty
Get into Kibale National Park, and you will immediately sense the freshness of the dew, the fragrances of endemic flowers, and the musty scents left behind by monkey troops in the canopy.
The sounds are also alien, from the distant echoed hoot of red colobus monkeys to the exotic chirping of endemic birds. In the distance, you may hear the sound of one of the park’s elephants plowing a path into the trees, and all around your camp, there will be evidence of four-legged visitors, like the bushbuck and the warthogs.
Gaze up, and a single scene might capture the iconic and the unique as an olive long-tailed cuckoo will fly above a small buffalo herd
What to experience
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- Chimpanzees habituation
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- Crater lakes
To see
Chimpanzee
Birds
Baboon
Elephants
Monkeys
Getting there
Location
Kabarole district, Western Uganda
Size
321 km2
Altitude
1,160m – 2,607m
SEMULIKI PARK
The bird sanctuary
Semuliki Forest Reserve was created in 1932 and upgraded to national park status in 1993.
It is the only tract of true lowland tropical forest in East Africa, hosting 441 recorded bird species and 53 mammals.
Large areas of this low-lying park may flood during the wet season, a brief reminder of the time when the entire valley lay at the bottom of a lake for seven million years.
Four distinct ethnic groups live near the park – Bwamba farmers live along the base of the Rwenzori while the Bakonjo cultivate the mountain slopes. Batuku cattle keepers inhabit the open plains and Batwa, pygmies, traditionally hunter gathers, live on the edge of the forest.
Semuliki National Park sprawls across the floor of the Semuliki Valley on the remote, western side of the Rwenzori. The Park is dominated by the easternmost extension of the great Ituri Forest of the Congo Basin. This is one of Africa’s most ancient and bio-diverse forests; one of the few to survive the last ice age, 12-18,000 years ago.
To see
Birds
Baboons
Amabere caves
What to experience
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- Hiking
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- Birding Safaris
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- Guided nature walks
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- Batwa Community culture tours
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- Primate tracking
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- Sempaya hotsprings
Getting there
Location
Ntoroko District, Uganda
Size
220km²
Altitude
670-760m above sea level
BWINDI IMPENETRABLE
Thick and green, all at Bwindi
Bwindi is the most important forest reserve in Uganda. This swath of steep mountains covered in thick, steamy jungle is just as magnificent as it sounds. The 32,092 ha (320 sq km) World Heritage-listed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of Africa’s most ancient habitats, even surviving the last Ice Age as most of the continent's other forests disappeared. Most prominent about the park is its 500 inhabitants, the mountain gorillas.
What to experience
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- Gorilla habituation
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- Birding
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- Gorilla tracking
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- Batwa Community tours
To see
Mountain Gorilla
Birds
Batwa culture
Getting there
Location
South – Western Uganda (Kisoro)
Size
321km2
Altitude
1,160m – 2,607m Above sea level
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