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Best National Parks to Visit in Uganda.

Queen elizabeth national park
Queen Elizabeth national park (heritage safaris)

Are you planning to visit Uganda soon  and you aren’t sure of which Uganda park is best to go to? Heritage safaris will ensure to take you to the most adventurous parks that bring you closer and closer to the  Africans wilderness.  All 10 National park and 12 beautiful wildlife reserves makes Uganda the ‘’Peal of Africa a great African safari how amazing that would be.  For nature lovers, each of Ugandan safari parks  has something unique to explore and experience.  For remarkable wildlife safari experience, here are the best National parks to visit in Uganda.

QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK.

Queen Elizabeth National park is located in western Uganda. This is the second largest park in Uganda spanning on land area of 1978sq.kms and named after queen Elizabeth of England. It is one of the picturesque national parks with beautiful craters lakes, such as Lake Edward and George that are connected by an extensive Kazinga channel. The park is unique from the rest of Uganda’s National Park because it s the only destination where the tree Climbing lions live. These species live in parks Ishasha area, however, there are also several wildlife species like elephants, antelopes, buffaloes, leopards, and beautiful bird species. Tourists tend to love this park, because there are lots of exciting safaris activities to take part including Lion tracking, hot ballon experience, boat cruise, nature walks, chimpanzee tracking.

Murchison falls (heritage safaris)
Murchison falls (heritage safaris)

MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK

Murchison falls National park is a great wildlife encounters and is no doubt the best National park in Uganda. Located in Northwestern Uganda, Murchison falls National park is one the oldest parks and it is amazingly a home to one of the world’s powerful and stunning waterfalls.  Murchison falls National Park diverse wildlife include four of the big five game drive including Lions, elephants, buffaloes, leopards. The park dwells other mammals like spotted hyenas, bushbucks, waterbucks, oribis, giraffes hartebeest and many more. The park has huge concentration of bird species making it one of the preferred Uganda birding tour destination.

Tourists who are on Uganda safari tour in Murchison falls National Park, the likely safari activities to take part include hiking to the top of the falls, boat cruise from Paraa to the bottom of the Murchison falls, sport fishing, guided game drives, along the Northern sector, nature walks, birding, chimpanzee tracking, hot air ballon experience

KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK.

Kidepo valley National park (heritage safaris)
Kidepo valley National park (heritage safaris).

kidepo valley National park is located in the Northern part of  Uganda and is interestingly one of the best National park in Uganda. The park is beautiful with a land scape characterized by rugged savanna and is the third largest park in Uganda.  Game drives, birding , and nature walks are the main safari highlights of kidepo valley National park.

Gorillas in bwindi (heritage safaris)
Gorillas in bwindi (heritage safaris)

BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK.

Bwindi impenetrable National park is a beautiful impenetrable forest park located in the southwestern Uganda and is one of the 4 places in the world where mountain gorillas live and trekked most. The park hosts up to 459 of the worlds 1063 endangered mountain gorillas with 20 habituated gorilla groups making it an exceptional gorilla trekking destination. Gorilla trekking in Bwindi is done from any of the 4 regions  Rushaga,  Nkuringo, Ruhija and  Buhoma,

Monkeys (heritage safaris)
Monkeys (heritage safaris).

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK

Kibale National Park is located in western Uganda kabarole district. If you a primate lover, then kibale park is the best destination, and its a home to 13 primate species. The park is a good chimpanzees destination in Africa because the park protects over 1500 chimpanzees. Its also a home to 370 bird species, there is a lot to enjoy apart from chimps tracking and birding.

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