Uganda The Pearl Of Adventure PART 1

Uganda, the “Pearl of Africa”, has ten National Parks displaying the best of East Africa. The Rift Valley landscapes and tropical forests make dramatic backdrops to an extensive variety of fauna and flora. UGANDA has various parks,communities,landscapes and wildlife to experience while on a safari. Today let us explore Kidepo Valley National Park the goose that lays the golden eggs of adventure. 

Kidepo Valley National Park lies 700 km from Kampala in the rugged, semi arid valleys between Uganda’s borders with South Sudan and Kenya. Gazetted as a national park in 1962, it has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as 475 bird species.

The park houses Uganda's most exciting and rare species including; the greater and lesser kudu, eland and cheetah. Carnivores like the lion, leopard, spotted hyena and black-backed and side-striped jackals. Other large species regularly seen here include the Elephant, Burchell’s zebra, Warthogs, Rothschild’s giraffe, Cape buffalo, Bush buck, Bush duiker, Defassa water buck, Bohr reed buck, Jackson’s hartebeest
 and Oribi.

The park boasts a variety of birds with over 475 species, making it second only to Queen Queen Elizabeth National Park. Birds like the Ostrich, Kori Bustard and Karamoja Apalis. Kidepo is notable for its birds of prey, of the 56 species recorded, 14  including Verreaux’s Eagle, Egyptian Vulture and Pygmy Falcon – are believed to be endemic to the Kidepo and the Karamoja region. There has, however, been no comprehensive survey of birds in Kidepo and visitors stand a good chance of adding to the current list.

Kidepo is Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the few who make the long journey north through the wild frontier region of Karamoja would agree that it is also the most magnificent, for Kidepo ranks among Africa’s finest wildernesses

 From Apoka, in the heart of the park, a Savannah landscape extends far beyond the gazetted area, towards the horizons outlined by distant mountain ranges.During the dry season, the only water in the park is found in wetlands and remnant pools in the broad Narus Valley near Apoka. These seasonal oases, combined with the open, Savannah terrain, make the Narus Valley the park’s prime Narus Valley the park's prime game viewing location.

Book your trip with Kjong safaris and we shall experience the best Kidepo has to offer on your Uganda holiday safaris. BOOK NOW to enjoy your adventure filled holiday.