What to see on safaris in Uganda?

Beautiful Landscaping: All safari tours give you the chance to see beautiful landscapes, such as green, hilly land with coffee and banana farms. There are also traditional farmsteads and places for horses to graze. On trips to Uganda, you will also get to drive through many beautiful landscapes.

Wildlife

All of Uganda\’s parks have these animals, and guests can see the \”big five\” as well as herbivores like giraffes, zebras, antelopes, hippos, and Nile crocodiles. In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, you can see 400 mountain gorillas. In Kibale National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park, you can see chimps and other types of monkeys. On a tour, you will also have the chance to see a lot of birds, including the rare shoebill stork.

Mountain Rwenzori is also called \”Mountains of the Moon.\”

This is the highest mountain in East Africa, and its top is covered with snow. This mountain was also called the Ruwenzori Ranges, which are a group of mountains in the east of Africa\’s tropical region. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda share a border with these mountains. The mountain is about 120 km long and 65 km wide and stands 5,109 km above sea level. It has many different kinds of plants, like tropical rain forests, giant groundsels, and giant lobelias. Around this mountain, there are primates like monkeys, wild elephants, and birds that are only found in this area.

Murchison falls

These falls are in the northwestern part of Uganda. They are some of the most beautiful falls in Uganda and are near the source of the Nile. Other safari trips include a boat ride down the Nile, where you can see hippos, big crocodiles, and birds up close.

Source of the Nile

This is in Jinja town, and John Speke found it. The source of the Nile is a great place to do lots of different water sports, like white water rafting, swimming, bungee jumping, boat cruises, kayaking, and many more.

Uganda Safari Accommodation – Hotels & Lodges

. Inside and outside the parks, many places have cabins and tent camps. A double room costs between $150 and $900 per night. For gorilla trips in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, there are a range of lodges and camps in each part of the park. These are for people who want to track down the endangered mountain gorillas.

safaris and lodges

In Bwindi alone, there are 41 hotels to choose from. You can book these sites on your own or through Nature Addicts Safaris. The most expensive places to stay range from $900 to $1200 per night.

Best Time To Visit Uganda

This is one of the most popular questions about safaris in Uganda. The answer is that you can go to Uganda at any time of the year. Prices may be different, though, because there are two different high seasons: June to September and December to February. This is a high season, so the price of both gorilla passes and lodges is high. From March to May and September to November, it\’s not as busy. During the off season, most high-end safari lodges drop their prices.

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People are also told to go to the country during the dry seasons, which are from January to February and then from June to September. This is because the best time to see animals is during the dry seasons, when many of them gather around the water holes. You can also watch birds at any time of the year, but the best time is from November to April, when many migratory species are in the country.

Uganda Safari Cost

Uganda The cost of a safari mostly relies on where you stay and how you travel. A gorilla pass costs $600 per person. The cost of where you sleep ranges from $150 to $900, depending on where you choose to stay. The least expensive gorilla-tracking tour costs about $1,200 per person. And for budget travelers, wildlife trips to Murchison and Queen Elizabeth National Park can cost around $1000. If you want to go on adventure with a group, the price goes down. It takes 527 kilometers to get from Kampala to Bwindi. Most places in Uganda cost about $150 per day to visit. A high-end tour in Uganda costs at least $500 per day. A tour on a budget costs less than $100 per day.

When to go for a safari in Uganda?

Visit Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park to see gorillas and Murchison Falls National Park to see the falls, drive through the park to see wildlife, or take a launch trip. Kidepo Valley National Park, which was just named one of the best parks in Africa, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Lake Mburo, and many other places are also worth visiting.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Uganda

-Famed for estimated 320 rare mountain gorillas, (Gorilla Berengei, Berengei)

-120 animals,

-Primate species, like baboons, chimps,

-350 bird species, 23 of which are unique to the Albertine Rift.

-Learn about the traditions of the Batwa Pygmies.

Murchison Falls National Park Safaris

80 km of waves and waterfalls. Nile squeezes through a gorge that is 8 meters wide.

– There are 76 mammals here, including four of the \”big five\” animals. There are also buffalo, elephants, and lions.

There are also Jackson\’s hartebeest, waterbucks, warthogs, hippos, giraffes, and Uganda kob.

In the Budongo and Kaniyo Pabidi woods, there are Olive baboons and 800 chimpanzees.

Queen Elizabeth National Park Tours

-95 mammal species

-Kasenyi tracks, North Kazinga, and Ishasha ector are the best places to go on game drives.

-Lions, Buffalo, deer, elephants, warthogs, baboons, and many more.

-600 types of birds.

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-Well-known for tracking chimpanzees.

It is 1590m above sea level and 795km2.

-70 types of mammals, including elephants, red and blue duikers, big forest hogs, buffalo, sitatunga, and bushbucks.

13 different kinds of primates, like chimps, baboons, white and black colobus, etc.

-325 kinds of birds, including the Green Tinker Bird, African and Green Breasted Pitas, African Grey Parrot, and Ground Thrush (Turdus Kibalensis), which is only found in Kibale Forest National Park.

-More than 250 kinds of trees.

Bigodi Wetlands, Kanyanchu, and Sebitoli are all interesting places.

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Mgahinga Gorilla

Kidepo Valley

Tours of the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda

Lake Mburo Uganda Tours

Chimps Tours in Uganda

Tours of the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

Tours of Tree Climbing Lions in Uganda

Gorilla Trekking in Uganda

Mountain gorilla trekking/gorilla tracking is the best thing about trips to Uganda. It\’s also the main reason why people come to Uganda from all over the world. There are more gorillas in Bwindi than anywhere else in the world. You track gorillas for 60 minutes while taking pictures and watching how they live in the wild. The silver back mountain gorilla taking care of its family.

Mountain gorillas are nearly extinct, but 95% of their DNA is the same as ours. This makes them a must-see on any tour.In Virunga National Park, Bwindi National Park, and Volcanoes National Park, you can see gorillas.

Uganda Wildlife Safaris & Game Drives

Uganda is a great place to go on a tour because it has a lot of animals and is beautiful. The country is right on the equator and on the northern shore of Lake Victoria. This country has a lot of wildlife, which brings in a lot of people who want to see this wonderful gift of nature. You can watch many animals in their natural environments, which is a fun thing to do all year long.

National parks and reserves are great places for outdoor tourists, eco-tourists, and people on vacation to see wildlife. Elephants, kobs, zebras, hippos, buffalo, huge forest hogs, sitatungas, and birds are just some of the animals you might see on a Uganda tour.

Over the past 20 years, these animal species have grown, giving guests a chance to see almost all of Uganda\’s animal species.

Uganda Birding Safaris

Uganda is known as a birder\’s paradise because it has more bird types than any other country in Africa. This makes it the best place to go on a safari to watch birds in Africa and the rest of the world. With a tropical rain forest in the west and a grassland in the east, it has unique plants. Uganda is one of the countries in the world with unique places to watch birds, like Queen Elizabeth National Park, which has more than 600 species of birds. There are also more than 100 species of African forest birds, including the green broadbill, black and white casqued hornbill, great blue turaco, and 23 species of birds that are only found in the rift valley of East Africa. Only in Uganda can you see the most popular animals in Africa, like the shoe bill stock.

Below are the main birding spots in Uganda;

Bwindi National Park has 320 different kinds of birds, many of which are unique to the Albertine Rift.

600 kinds of birds can be found in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

There are 35 bird types in Kibale National Park and 138 in Bigodi Wetland Swamp.

The shoebill can be seen in Entebbe\’s Mahamba swamp.

Semuliki National Park has 400 different kinds of birds, including most of the Congo Basin Endemics.

The Denham\’s Bustard, the Red-throated Bee-eater, the Abyssinian, and many more can be seen in Murchison Falls National Park. There are 451 different kinds of birds in this park.

Echuya Forest Reserve has 150 different kinds of birds.

Mgahinga National Park has 115 different kinds of birds.

There are 60 kinds of birds on the Nile River in Jinja.

Birdwatchers can also see the Fox\’s weaver, payrus dwellers like the shoebill, and the Papyrus Gonolex in the eastern part of the lake.

If you want to get the most out of your tour, you should mix birdwatching with gorilla trekking, especially when you go to Bwindi.

Uganda Chimpanzee Tracking

Chimpanzee trekking is a fun and unique sport that lets people see chimpanzees up close. It\’s also a lot of fun and full of magic! There are still more than 4,950 chimps in the wild, and some of them are kept safe in the zoo, some in the woods, and some in sanctuaries.

Primates safari 

These can be hiked in Kibale National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kyambura Gorge in Maramagambo Forest, and Budongo Forest in Murchison Falls National Park. From Ngamba Island Sanctuary on Lake Victoria, chimpanzees can also be trained to get used to people.

The most chimpanzees live in Kibale Forest National Park. It is also home to more than 13 different primate species, such as chimps, La Hoest\’s monkeys, vervet monkeys, and red-tailed Colobus monkeys. Chimpanzee habituation is also possible. Every morning, people go out to watch and study how chimps act in general, with the main goal of getting them used to people. Guests on custom Uganda tours can also choose to look for these chimps in Queen Elizabeth National Park\’s Kyambura Gorge and Murchison Falls National Park\’s Budongo and Rwambongo Forest Reserve.

Mountain Climbing Safaris in Uganda

Rwenzori mountain is the second-highest mountain range in Africa after Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. It is 5109m high. This mountain has 6 peaks, including Mt Baker, which is 4,843m high, Mt Stanley, which is 5,109m high, Mt Speke, which is 4,890m high, Mt Emin, which is 4,715m high, and Mt Savoia, which is 4,627m high. But Margherita Peak is 5109m high, making the Rwenzori the third highest mountain range in Africa.

The mountain is close to the equator, and from many places in western Uganda, you can see its many icy tops from miles away. It has sloes that are higher than 1600m and are popular with hikers. The mountain is known as the most difficult in all of Africa. It also has five different types of plant life, including the Bamboo or Mimulopsis Zone at 2500-3500m, the grassland at 1000-2000m, the afro-alpine moorland zone at 4000-4500m, the Montane forest at 2000-3000m, and the Heather zone at 3000-4500m.

Lake Bunyonyi Uganda Trip

Lake Bunyonyi is in south-western Uganda, near Rwanda, between Kisoro and Kibale. It is 1,962 meters above sea level. After your tour with the gorillas, you can take a break at Lake Bunyonyi before leaving the country.

The towns of Kyevu and Muke town are close to the lake. Some of the islands in the lake are called \”Punishment Island,\” \”Bushara Island,\” \”Kyahungwe Island,\” \”Bwana Island,\” \”Nyuyeera Island,\” and \”Bucaranuka Island.\” We can make custom trips to these Islands.