Tour destinations: Uganda

 

Destination:

From Kigali international airport Rwanda, the journey is approximately 3 hours going through Gisenyi town via Ruhengeri at the Rwanda Congo border near Goma town. Gisenyi transit route, tours on boat cruise on Lake Kivu.

Arrival:

Treks to the summit of Nyiragongo start from Kibati patrol in the wee hours in morning a 30min drive up to Goma town.

Hiking activities:

Professional guides will orient tourists before hiking activities ensuring every tourist have necessary hiking and cold weather gears worn, proper hydration, and medical examination, packed meals

Hiking to the summit takes between 4 to 6 hours climb starting from an altitude around 1,999 meters to 3470 meters above sea level.

To the summit through the lava rock walk, a scenic view of Virunga Mountains national park can be spotted, tropical forested slopes ha biting wildlife can’t be missed as well.

 

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) is in south-western Uganda. The recreation center is a piece of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and is arranged along the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outskirt by the Virunga National Park and on the edge of the Albertine Rift. Made out of 331 square kilometers (128 sq mi) of both montane and swamp backwoods, it is open just by walking. BINP is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-assigned World Heritage Site.

 

 Mountain Gorilla & Monkeys

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QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK WILDLIFE SAFARI

Queen Elizabeth II and was established in 1954. It is located in western Uganda among the common Tour destinations and covers an area of about 1,978 square kilometres which is shared between 3 districts that is Kasese, Bushenyi and Rukungiri. It’s about 376 kilometres (234 mi), by road, southwest of Kampala. In this park there is Lake Edward and Lake George and the Kazinga channel that connects the two lakes. Other lakes are volcanic and this includes the Katwe salt lake, from which salt is extracted. The vegetation in the park is open savannah, green meadows, semi- deciduous tropical forests, dense equatorial rain forest and dense papyrus swamps.

 

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GAME VIEWING KIDEPO NATIONAL PARK

Kidepo Valley National Park is located in the north-eastern corner of Uganda along the international frontier with South Sudan in Kaabong District. It is 1,442 square kilometres in size. It hosts over 86 mammal species and about 500 bird species.

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LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK

Lake Mburo National Park in the western part of Uganda, in Kiruhura District and is about 3.5 hours’ drive from the capital city of Uganda, Kampala. The park is not big in size, it’s about 260kms2. Have lunch on arrival and later go for an afternoon game drive. You will spot animals like Zebras, Impala, Buffaloes, Buffalo, Topi, and Eland among others. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

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MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK

The park is about 300 kilometres by road from Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. You will have lunch on arrival and later go for an afternoon siesta where the driver/guide will help you spot a plethora of wildlife. This may include Buffalos, elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, kobs, Impalas among others. Various birds might be spotted too, like the hornbills, bee-eaters, kingfishers and storks, Egyptian plover, Chestnut crowned sparrow weaver, Rock pranticole, Red winged grey warbler, Pulvus illadopsis among others. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge

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SEMLIKI NATIONAL PARK

Semliki National Park which is located in the remote part of Bundibugyo district in Bwamba County in the western part of Uganda in the Albertine Rift, in the western arm of the East African rift. It has a size of 194 km2 and vegetation is tropical rain forest and swamps.

The park has more than 400 bird species, for example the rare Forest Ground Thrush and Sassi’s Olive Greenbul, Long-tailed Hawk, Forest Francolin, Nkulengu Rail, Western Bronze-napped Pigeon, Black-collared Lovebird, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Brown-crowned Eremomela, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Ituri Batis.
The park has over 60 mammal species, including forest buffalos, leopards, hippos, Mona Monkeys, water chevrotains, bush babies, civets, elephants, and the Pygmy Flying Squirrel. Have lunch on arrival and later take an afternoon game drive to enjoy the nocturnal animals.

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KIBALE NATIONAL PARK

The park is about 766 km2 in size with primarily moist evergreen forest and contains a diverse array of landscapes. It is in the Southern part of Uganda in Kabarole and Kamwenge districts and about, 320 kilometres from Kampala.
About 325 species of birds like olive long-tailed cuckoo, Western Green tinker bird, African and Green-breasted and African Grey Parrot, 13 species of primates, a total of at least 60 other species of mammals, and over 250 tree species have found this a perfect home. It is home to a large number of endangered chimpanzees other primates including the red colobus monkey and the rare L’Hoest’s monkey, Uganda Mangabey, the Ugandan Red Colobus, and the L’Hoest’s Monkey. Other mammals include red and blue duikers, bush pigs, warthogs, buffalo and elephants. Various types of buffer flies and reptiles have found this tropical forest, savannah, the woodland as well as the diverse altitude a perfect home. Have lunch on arrival and then go for a community or forest walk. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay

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BEST OF TOUR DESTINATIONS 

Come experience the best over all tours for 20 straight days in most of the Ugandan National Parks:- Culture safaris,wildlife,Game drives and Boat cruises

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ZIKA FOREST UGANDA

The virus was first isolated in April 1947 from a rhesus macaque monkey placed in a cage in the Ziika Forest of Uganda, near Lake Victoria, by the scientists of the Yellow Fever Research Institute. A second isolation from the mosquito A. africanus followed at the same site in January 1948.[78] When the monkey developed a fever, researchers isolated from its serum a “filterable transmissible agent” which was named Zika in 1948.

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