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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Bwindi is mystical, dense, ever green and very wet rain forest Sitted on a mountainous landscape on the edge of the rift valley, it is renowned for gorilla trekking as it has the highest number of habituated groups (18).

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Kidepo valley National park

Kidepo Valley National Park being situated in distant Northern Eastern Uganda, game-drives and bush-walks offer extraordinary diversity through landscapes and wildlife.Kidepo Valley National Park being situated in distant Northern Eastern Uganda, game-drives and bush-walks offer extraordinary diversity through landscapes and wildlife. Kidepo contains 475 recorded bird species in addition to 77 mammal species. On the part of predators, these include lions, leopards, cheetahs, bat eared fox, side striped jackals and black backed jackals. Further more, The national park has a large list of herbivores that include giraffes, zebras, toppi, Uganda kobs, elands, klipspringers. Most importantly it is considered to have East Africa’s largest concentration of cape buffalos. Birdwatching Kidepo deserves a special place on your bucket list in case you are a birder. The parks 475 recorded species that include 56 raptors. Other specials include Karamoja apalis, Abyssinian roller, Chestnut weaver, Golden pipit, Pygmy falcon, Rufous chatterer, Abyssinian scimitarbill, D’Arnaud’s barbet, Black-breasted barbet, Fox kestrel, Greater kestrel, Jackson’s hornbill, Northern carmine bee-eater, Purple grenadier and White-bellied go-away bird just to mention a few. Night Game drives Sadly, most visitors come to Kidepo simply come to have day game drives and then leave without sampling the night game drive. You shouldn’t. It is a great addition to your safari experience considering that it doubles your chances of encountering cats in the middle of a hunt. Having been here countless times, our guides know the parks routine and where to find the various species of wildlife at different times of the year. Best time to visit In the dry season from September to March, seeing wildlife is as easy as driving to the right spot and you will have them them right beside your car window. On the other hand, the wet season from April to August is big on birdwatching. Important to note is that during the night game drive, it’s not unusual to see leopards preying on the grazing females or males that love staying in isolation.

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Queen Elizabeth National Park

Queen Elizabeth National Park is a true African wilderness of jaw dropping beauty with large concentrations of both predators and prey still enduring.The park is approximately 400 kilometres by road south-west of Kampala, which is Uganda’s capital and largest city. Queen Elizabeth National Park occupies an estimated 1,978 square kilometres, in fact extending north-east to Lake George to Lake Edward in the south-west and includes the Kazinga Channel connecting the two lakes. It is a home to 95 mammal species and over 500 bird species and in particular known for its wildlife. These include African buffalo, Ugandan kob, hippopotamus, Nile crocodile, African bush elephant, African leopard, lion, and chimpanzee among others. When British explorers toured the area towards the end of last century, their report showed a great area depopulation due to cattle raiding. They similarly reported that epidemics like smallpox and rinderpest also contributed to the great depopulation of the area. Close to 100 species of mammals and about 606 types of birds dwell within Queen Elizabeth National park. Among the birds are the: large schools of hippos, large forest hogs and the good-look Uganda kobs. Mweya Peninsula prides in a beautiful waterfront locale within the shadows of Mountain Rwenzori. Ishasha Sector is however the isolated residence for tree-climbing lions which is the best attraction in the park. The Maramagambo forest is habitat to an attractive diversity of monkeys and birds. The crater lakes hold thousands of the beautiful pink flamingoes, while the Kyambura Gorges is habitat to habituated Chimpanzees. Activities: Savanah game drive, Ishasha, boat ride.

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Murchison Falls National Park

Murchsion Falls National park MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK Found in Northern Uganda, Murchison is a multi-award winning national park with a diversity of sensational experiences and heart-racing adventures. There’s wildlife aplenty including 76 mammal species and 451 bird species. It is Uganda’s biggest conservation area, covering an expanse of 3,840km2 which comprises of dense tropical forests, open Savannah with towering borassus palm trees, freshwater lakes, rolling his a s free flowing river network. One of the things that makes Murchison falls a must see is that its water volume doesn’t drop, even in peak dry seasons. This is partly because it is fed by over 10 permanent rivers. The one hour hike from its foot to summit is an exhilarating experience that will leave you breathless. The tour is preceded by a two hours boat cruise along the river banks. On the part of Birdwatching, there are several good sites in Budongo including the Royal Mile, a former hunting ground for Bunyoro’s king, Omukama Kabalega. It is also highly rated as a single best birding destination in Uganda due to its number of rare birds and the relative ease with which you can see it them. Birds species include the rare Puval’s Illadopses, an endemic of the region. More to that, other specials include Crowned Eremomera, Cassin’s Hawk Eagle, Dusky long-tailed Cuckoo, Yellow-manted Weaver, Crested Malimbe, Western Black-headed Oriole, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Chestnut, Yellow-browned Camaroptera, Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher, Forest Robin, White-spotted Flufftail, Slender-billed Greenbul, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Yellow and Grey Longbill, Little Green Sunbird and African Emerald Cuckoo among others. Having an experienced guide makes a big difference to your success in seeing all sorts of birds. To this effect, Gorilla Nest Safaris shall offer you a guide who goes the extra mile to attract diverse species by skillfully imitating their calls. Boat cruise A two hours boat cruise on River Nile offers a great way to enjoy the bird life flitting along the banks of the world’s longest river, River Nile. This includes fish eagles and kingfishers dive-bombing into the water from overhanging tree branches. This is where to get that photo of a hippo yawning. You will also see lots of elephants, buffalos and giraffes cooling off with a refreshing splash in the water. This refreshing cruise offers you a better perspective and experience of the park. You will witness a change in scenery, from tropical forest to freshwater to savannahs with rolling hills.

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Bwindi Mghahinga National Park

Despite being only one-tenth the size of the likes of Bwindi, Mgahinga’s gorilla experience leaves no room for disappointment. The northern sector has many species of Guineo-Congolian flora, including two endangered species, the brown mahogany and Brazzeia longipedicellata.It provides habitat for different species including 120 mammals, 348 -birds, 220-butterflies, 27-frogs, chameleons, geckos, and many endangered species. In particular, the area shares in the high levels of endemisms of the Albertine Rift. The park is a sanctuary for colobus monkeys, chimpanzees, and many birds such as hornbills as well as turacos. It is most notable for more than 400 mountain gorillas, half of the world’s population of the endangered mountain gorillas.

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Lake Mburo National Park

LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK is a place you come to enjoy nature expecting to see some of the big 5 animals around every corner, particularly buffalos. It is not a zoo. Rather, it is nature in it’s purest form, somewhere in Western Uganda. The savannah park is small, compact and easy to travel around, and the number of animals are significant comparing to the small area of the park. No where else in Uganda do you get a big population of zebras as is Lake Mburo, over 8,000. Even more fascinating, it has almost all the animals in the antelope family, inclusive of toppi, klipspringer duiker, oribi and bohor reedbuck. The best way to get an early feel for this park is to join the two-hour boat cruise up the freshwater lake after which it is named. It is made of 15 small freshwater lakes which are inter-linked by swamps with papyrus jungles. The whole journey, especially if you go at sunrise or sunset, is filled with massive sightings of watering buffalo, hippos, crocs and various antelope species. Lots of trails here are extremely wild and barely travelled. This allows you meditate in peace without any interference. If your priority is seeing lions and leopards, the game drives here can be a bit hit-and-miss, but you will seeing countless herds of buffaloes, toppi and giraffes. Birdwatching On of Lake Mburo’s strongest points is its possession of over 310 bird species inclusive of papyrus endemics such as papyrus gonolek and the blue-headed coucal. While it is so hard to come across birds at the northern limit of their range in other parks across Africa, at Mburo luck they in abundance. Examples include the black-collared barbet and southern ground hornbill. Other notables include,Red-faced barbet, Shoebill, White-winged swamp warbler, Abyssinian ground hornbill, African finfoot, Bare-faced go-away bird, Greater painted-snipe, Brown-chested lapwing, Papyrus yellow warbler, Mosque swallow and Hairy-breasted barbet among others. It can take some serious 4×4 driving to get to some parts of the park but is worth the mission. The better part of the story is that all cars in our fleet are customized for adventures off the beaten path. A definite highlight of the area is a walking safari to the salt lick where you can see several mammals boosting the ion in their diet. Best time to visit: All year round especially the dry months; June to August and December to February.