Summer holidays in the pearl of Africa and the land of thousand hills

Summer holidays in the pearl of Africa and the land of thousand hills

Planning an African vacation this summer “karibu” welcome to Uganda ‘’the pearl of Africa’’, home to some of the world’s iconic tourist destinations. They include the rolling Savannah of Murchison, Kidepo, Queen Elizabeth, the towering edifice of the” mountain of the moon’’ the Rwenzori and the exotic islands of Ssesse in Lake Victoria.

Rwenzori Mountain

The stunning lushness of Uganda’s national parks combined with spectacular landscapes provides the setting for a perfect African vacation and a most memorable visitor experience. Tracking the rare mountain gorillas in the Bwindi impenetrable forest offers the best viewing opportunity in the world for these rare primates and is the highlight of any visit to the pearl of Africa. The unforgettable encounters while trekking the chimpanzees in kibale and Budongo forests, the kyambura gorge.  Kidepo National Park with its breathtaking sceneries, huge buffalo herds, unique and beautiful virgin angulation hills. The Rwenzori Mountain range with their chain of striking glaciers a mystical challenge littered with majestic sceneries across the entire mountain spectrum.

A wide range of tasteful accommodation options across the country awaits, these include budget camps, hostels, guesthouses and mid range hotels in all major town close to the parks. The safaris options range from Tented camps to built lodges in exotic locations and with tasteful views within and around the national parks.

Guest enjoy Game drive in Kidepo Valley National Park.

The pearl of Africa has outstanding safari options, In addition to day and night game drives, experiential tourism, chimpanzee habituation and gorilla trekking. You can enjoy the wild from the numerous boat cruises, on foot or horseback depending on the destination. There are dedicated safaris for birdwatchers and other special interest groups. Our Safari Packages include culture tours to explore the traditions and everyday life of local communities. Beyond the animal parks we take you to historical sites, experiences and places to see. There is a range of cultural and heritage gems from rock paintings hike a mountain, paragliding, fish, canoe and do nature walks. There is also chance to volunteer skills to help a good cause or a local community.

Happy Ugandan Lady selling  fruits in local market.

There is a vibrant night life Uganda especially in Kampala the capital and major towns around the country, with casinos, smart hotel bars, live band music and discotheques playing popular Ugandan hip-hop and popular African and western hits.  

Uganda’s un congested wilderness offers spectacular range of flora and fauna, an added advantage to Uganda over it neighbors enjoy exclusive safaris and have a chance to enjoy the wild without.

limitations, obstructed views and interruptions. However come June, July and august summer month it is full house, most places are fully booked, as a polite reminder to our esteemed clients plan in advance to avoid disappointment and enjoy our discounted rates for any  advance reservation.   

Kjong safaris goes beyond  Uganda to Rwanda ‘’le pays des milles collines” the land of a thousand hills with its immerse beauty, once a no go zone for visitors because of the 1994 savage genocide one cannot believe the recovery the country has made in the last twenty years, with its easily accessed gorilla parks given the short driving distance from the capital Kigali and kanombe international airport on well paved roads making Gorilla tourism Rwanda’s major tourism export, however

Rwanda is more than the mystical mountain gorillas, the shores and bays of   lake kivu conceal some of the best inland beaches the Nyungwe national park is a primates haven is the largest remaining montane forest in east and central Africa, it troubled past has also been taken advantage of learn more about the horrors of the past at the genocide memorials strewn around the country.  Not to be missed on any visit to this country is the volcano national park, Kigali memorial  center, Gisenyi lake city, Rwanda national museum and the Nyungwe forest national park for your Golden monkey experience.

Kjong safaris has the following African safari/adventures this summer in both Uganda and Rwanda and with early booking attracting a considerable discount

Uganda Safaris - Top 10

Rwanda Tours - Top 8

Best Selling and Most popular Safaris

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Other offer you may be interested in

Easter specials

Easter Special with Adventure Gorilla Trekking.

4 days/3 nights Easter gorilla adventure and wildlife experience.

SAFARI OVERVIEW

This is an exceptional offer for you to come and see the rare mountain gorillas in Bwindi combined with some wild life in Lake Mburo national park, home to 315 bird species, 68 mammal species which include large population of zebra, buffaloes, impalas, Elands the largest antelope in Africa, leopards and together with a large aqua system to support this bio diversity. With lions extinct, this Park is the wild life place in Uganda where one can partake on activities such as guided nature walk, bicycle safaris, Horseback safaris without any major threat from wild life in addition to the game drives, boat trips on the lakes, bird watching and sport fishing. For only 4 days in Uganda we take you down to Bwindi for your Gorilla Adventure, be part of the Gorilla family as you share the greatest experience that millions of others around the world have done.

Itinerary

Day 1: Departure lake Mburo-Afternoon Boat cruise.

Depart for Lake Mburo park early in the morning, with a brief stopover at the equator and then carry on to the park arrive in time for lunch and check in, after lunch head for the boat cruise on the lake to view the hippos, crocodile and plenty of bird life which include the king fisher’s, fish Eagles and not to be missed the endemic African fin foot. After the boat ride an Evening game drive before heading back to you lodge for the night give you chance to see the nocturnal, Accommodation options; Mihingo Safari lodge(Luxury option), Rwakobo Lodge(Midrange) and  Eagle Nest Tented camp (Budget option). Meal plan Lunch/Dinner.

Day 2: lake Mburo-bwindi – Morning Game drive and Transfer to Bwindi.

After your morning coffee and breakfast start off for Bwindi, as you safari through the park one will encounter zebras, buffalos, elands and impala along with a great variety of birds. With lunch stop on the way, arriving early afternoon in Bwindi so one can choose to relax at the lodge or take a walk in the village to the numerous craft shops, Accommodation options;  Buhoma Lodge ( Luxury Option),Silverback safari lodge( Midrange Option) and Buhoma Community Camp. (Budget Option) Meal plan Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner.      

Day  3: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park –Gorilla trekking Adventure.

After breakfast set off early with guides to track the gorillas, the thrill of your encounter will erase the difficulties of the potentially strenuous trek. Bring jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet. Spend time in awe watching the gorillas go about their activities. Each gorilla safari encounter is different and has its own rewards, but you are likely to enjoy the close view of adults feeding, grooming and resting as the youngsters frolic and swing from vines in a delightfully playful display. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swathe of dense rain forest, so ancient that survived the last ice age. A recently proclaimed World Heritage site, it’s one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world population of mountain gorillas – believed to number just 720. There’s also a substantial chimpanzee population and research shows that Bwindi is the only forest in Africa in which these two apes live together. Time permitting, spend the afternoon on a community foot safari to explore the life style of the people living and surrounding the park. Return to camp exhilarated to relieve the encounter with friends over a drink, Accommodation options; Silverback safari lodge and meal plan Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner.              

 DAY 4: KAMPALA

 After your morning breakfast, drive back to Kampala using Kasese-Fort Portal road via Queen Elizabeth National Park for enroute game viewing if you lucky you may spot the Elephants, Antelopes and the Warthogs. A stop over at the Equator line in Kasese is good. Enjoy the winding scenery of the foot hills of Mt.Rwenzori arriving in Fort Portal for lunch thereafter continue to Kampala and meal plan Breakfast/lunch.

 Per person sharing in Double/Twin Room and safari depart on Good Friday from Kampala.

Safari Option/Number of Person	2 person	4Person	6 Person
Budget	$815	$540	$450
Mid-range	$985	$725	$637
Luxury	$1466	$1206	$1120

Trip includes:

Transportation by a 4wd vehicle with service of English speaking Driver/guide
Fuel

Accommodation at the Silverback lodge and meals as per the itinerary   

Lunch while on transit

Bottled water in the car

One game drive

One boat cruise

One Gorilla permit per person to be secured and paid for in advance

However, the package excludes: expenses of personal nature like: Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, and tobacco.           

Easter Special

4Days/3Nights Easter wildlife Adventure.

Celebrate this Easter season in special way with Kjong safari ltd in Murchison Falls National  Park’s which  has hosted a number of celebrities and legendaries like, Britain’s Queen mother, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Located in the northwest of country with the Victoria Nile journeying through from Lake Victoria the source to join the Mediterranean Sea. The Murchison fall park  is the country’s largest national park is named after one of the largest falls on the river Nile is home to large population of buffalo, elephants and several species of antelopes, the Rothschild giraffe and the elusive lion and leopard. The launch trip on the river Nile is a nice way to watch the aquatics such as the hippos, crocodiles and both the aquatic and terrestrial birds as you make your way to Baker’s rock to watch the waterfall make their way through six meter cleft while plunging from a forty meter height. Staying at Either Paraa safari Lodge for Luxury option, Fort Murchison for Midrange and Red Chilli Rest Camp for Budget safari Option.

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Per person sharing in Double/Twin Room and depart from Kampala on Good Friday

Safari option/Number of person	2 person	4 person	6 person
Budget	$665	$490	$435
Midrange	$900	$725	$665
Luxury	$1035	$865	$810

Trip includes:

Transportation by a 4wd vehicle with service of English speaking Driver/guide
Fuel

Accommodation in a standard rooms on full board for Luxury and Midrange safari Option and Bed only for Budget Option.

Lunch while on transit

Bottled water in the car

Two game drives

One boat cruise

One visit to the Rhino

Visit to The Murchison falls

However, the package excludes: expenses of personal nature like: Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, and tobacco.        

Meet Zimbabwe's vegetarian crocodiles

Nyanyana Crocodile Farm is home to over 50,000 Nile crocodiles.

CROCODILES are some of the most feared predators in Africa, ruthless reptiles renowned for tearing their prey to pieces before swallowing hunks of meat raw.

But in the baking sun at Nyanyana crocodile farm on the shores of Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, feeding time has a surreal edge as the beasts nibble lazily at bowls of vegetarian pellets.

Besides being cheaper than meat, the diet of protein concentrate, minerals, vitamins, maize meal and water is said to enhance crocodile skin destined to become handbags or shoes on the catwalks of New York, Paris, London or Milan.

"We don't feed them meat any more," said Oliver Kamundimu, financial director of farm owner Padenga Holdings.

"It actually improves the quality because we now measure all the nutrients that we are putting in there, which the crocodile may not get from meat only," he told Reuters in an interview.

Four hundred kilometres (250 miles) northwest of Harare, Nyanyana is home to 50,000 Nile crocodiles and is one of three Padenga farms around Kariba, Africa's largest man-made lake.

The company has 164,000 crocodiles in all and started feeding pellets in 2006 at the height of an economic crisis in Zimbabwe that made meat scarce and very expensive.

Initially, the pellets contained 50 percent meat but that has gradually been phased out to an entirely vegetarian diet.

"We have moved gradually to a point where we reduced the meat to about 15 percent then to seven percent and where we are now there is zero meat, zero fish," he said.

"It's a much cleaner operation and the crocs are getting all the nutrients they want from that pellet."

Fed every second day, the crocodiles are largely docile and lie asleep in their enclosures as workers walk around casually cleaning up leftovers.

Hermes, Gucci

The crocodilies are slaughtered at 30 months, when they are about 1.5 metres long and their skin is soft and supple.

Last year Harare-listed Padenga sold 42,000 skins to tanneries in Europe, especially France, where the average skin fetches $550.

Ninety percent of the leather becomes high-end handbags, Kamundimu said, while the remainder makes belts, shoes and watch straps for some of the biggest names in world fashion.

"When you hear names like Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Gucci - those are the brand names we are talking about," he said with a satisfied smile.

Having survived economic collapse and hyperinflation of 500 billion percent in Zimbabwe, Padenga then had to deal with fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis, and economic contraction in the euro zone, its main market.

However, while appetite for crocodile meat cooled in Europe and Asia, super-wealthy European shoppers shrugged off recession and continued to snap up crocodile-skin items, Kamundimu said.

"When you look at people who buy handbags for their wives or daughters that cost $40,000 a piece, even when the euro zone problems came, they could still afford to buy," he said. We didn't feel a decline."