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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Home of the endangered mountain gorilla

As its name suggests, Bwindi is famed for its dense forests, which provide the ideal cover for its equally famous residents, the endangered mountain gorillas. One of Uganda’s newest parks (it was opened in 1991); pristine and largely undiscovered Bwindi is also one of her most prized ecological gems. Quite apart from the gorillas, the park features volcanic peaks, bamboo forests, ...

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Kibale Forest National Park

Playground of the chimpanzees

One of the last remaining areas of rainforest in Africa, Kibale offers dense forest with 250 tree species, grasslands, swamps and a scenic field of volcanic craters. Standing at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains, the park is an extension of the Queen Elizabeth National Park, one of Uganda’s most recent national parks. Most famous for its chimpanzee communities, statistics suggest ....

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Lake Mburo National Park

Land of lakes

Lake Mburo National Park is the place where you can find gigantic Eland Antelopes. Dominated by Lake Mburo, this park features rolling grassland, extensive acacia woodlands and a vast swamp, which is fed by the Ruizi River and links Lake Mburo with the five other lakes of the park. As one would expect of such a land of lakes, the park is famous for its hippo, crocodile and water birds. 

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Mt. Elgon National Park

Untamed Wilderness, Majestic Splendour

24 million-year-old Mount Elgon is a dormant volcano, crowned by a vast crater some eight kilometres wide, honeycombed by labyrinthine caves, fissured by valleys, cascaded by streams and cloaked in forest, it straddles the border between Kenya and Uganda.

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Queen Elizabeth National Park

The treasure of Uganda

Much of QE, as it is universally known, lies between Lakes Edward and George, which are connected by the broad Kazinga Channel. The park offers a wide variety of habitats including savanna, woodland, volcanic craters, rivers and lakes. The park is also home to 95 species of mammals including large numbers of elephant, ..

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Kidepo Valley National Park

Magical remote and arid wilderness

The seldom-visited wilderness is the only wilderness safari park in Uganda to offer sanctuary to the country’s cheetah population. One of Uganda’s most spectacular African safari parks its offers some of the wildest and most magnificent scenery to be found in East Africa. The park is in the far north-eastern horn of the country, near to Kenya and bordering Sudan. 

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Murchinson Falls National Park

The place of the meeting of the waters

Uganda’s largest national parks, Murchison Falls National Park is dominated by the mighty Victoria Nile, which bisects the park via a seven-metre-wide rocky cleft and drops 43 metres over the western edge of the Albertine Rift Valley before continuing to Lake Albert, which lies on the park’s western boundary.

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Rwenzori Mountains National Park

An Afro-Alpine realm

Rwenzori Mountains National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to Africa's third highest mountain peak, Margherita. Home to numerous waterfalls, lakes, and glaciers it is renowned for its stunning flora. Walking the quiet trails you may see black-fronted duiker, bush pig and giant forest hog 

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