Queen Elizabeth National Park
Uganda
Queen Elizabeth is Uganda's most visited savanna park, six to seven hours by road from Kampala or Entebbe, and it…
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Uganda combines savannah safari with primate tracking in a single circuit, and permits shape the itinerary. Bwindi Impenetrable holds roughly half the world’s mountain gorillas; a tracking permit costs 800 US dollars, is tied to a date and one of four trailheads far apart by road, and allows one hour with a habituated family after a walk that can take one hour or six. Mgahinga, on the Virunga volcanoes, has a single gorilla group and golden monkeys. Kibale is the chimpanzee forest, with morning and afternoon tracking near Fort Portal.
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Murchison Falls National Park
Uganda
Murchison Falls is Uganda's largest park and the one closest to Kampala for a proper savanna safari, about five…
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Lake Mburo National Park
Uganda
Lake Mburo is the small savanna park on the Kampala–Mbarara road, about four hours from the capital, and its position…
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Kibale National Park
Uganda
Kibale is the chimpanzee forest of western Uganda, five hours from Kampala or Entebbe and forty minutes from Fort…
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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Uganda
Bwindi holds about half of the world's mountain gorillas, in the far south-west of Uganda, eight to ten hours by…
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Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Uganda
The Rwenzori are the snow-capped Mountains of the Moon on Uganda's border with Congo, above the town of Kasese,…
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Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Uganda
Mgahinga is Uganda's smallest national park, in the extreme south-western corner of the country above the town of…
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Semuliki National Park
Uganda
Semuliki is a flat, steamy lowland forest on the floor of the western Rift Valley in the far west of Uganda, on the…
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Queen Elizabeth adds a boat trip on the Kazinga Channel, thick with hippos, and the tree-climbing lions of Ishasha; Murchison Falls has the Nile forced through a seven-metre gap and game drives on the north bank; Lake Mburo, the stop between Kampala and the south-west, allows walking and horseback safaris. The Rwenzori are a serious multi-day trek to glaciated peaks, and Semuliki is lowland forest with hot springs. June to September and December to February are the drier months; permits for them go first.