Yes, you can drive all the way around Uganda with an organized trip that allows you to explore at a pace that suits, and includes detailed maps and route descriptions, with journey times and petrol stations marked when you rent a car with 4×4 Car Hire Uganda. Uganda’s reliable road system makes self-driving a fun family holiday, whilst also feeling like an adventure. Uganda has good Tarmac roads, which are straight, but 4x4s are usually recommended if you’re doing game drives.
Kidepo Valley National Park is a place to go for the ultimate self-drive safari. It is a true encounter with Uganda’s Virgin destination. Kidepo Valley National Park is one of Uganda’s most beautiful conservation areas that has not been touched so much hence not suffered much natural alteration. Getting to Kidepo can be a logistical nightmare, most people fly into the park, others brave the drive.
The roads, depending on the time of year, can be tricky. It’s important to call the park ahead of time to get information on the roads to determine if they are passable. The Karamajongo people are the only tribe in Uganda that have not been so much influenced by modern life style to change their Culture and cultural practice. The national park has most of the animal species with vast open savanna and some bird species that are endemic to the region.
A campsite on a hilltop is a good choice: plenty of stars at night, romantic campfire, wonderful sunset and sunrise, but also very basic facilities, and lions might be around. If you want the more relaxed option, try the mid-range bandas or the upmarket lodge, both at Apoka
Murchison Falls National Park What’s more amazing than walking in a fabulous park and quickly find themselves on the brink of a upsetting waterfall? Murchison Falls holds up as a favorite memory. The park is stunning and there is so much to do! The boat trip is an obvious yes, but also don’t miss the hike to see the falls from the other side. The sound of the thundering falls is seriously impressive!
Viewing Murchison Falls is simply magical. Here is where the whole river Nile, “the world’s longest river” is squeezed through a 5 meter wide cleavage and pounding down through an approximately 45 meters long falls forming an amazing rainbow in the hotter part of the day. This is Uganda’s largest conservation area with a vast variety of vegetation cover from open savanna, equatorial rain forest, savanna woodland and
We were self-driving, but hired a guide from the park and definitely recommend doing so, we were really impressed by Charles’ knowledge and he definitely contributed to our enjoyment. Murchison Falls National Park is well worth a visit and Uganda was one of our very favorite countries! You will find exceptionally friendly people, excellent attractions and affordable options.
Kibale National Park is classic, pristine central African rain forest with towering trees and huge stands of creaking bamboo. It is famous mostly for fantastic chimpanzee trekking and boasts one of the world’s highest primate population densities. Chimp trekking at Kibale is relatively expensive by Ugandan safari standards. On the other hand, night walks are excellent here with bush baby and civet sightings fairly common. Bird watching is also very good though most birders focus their efforts outside the park in small preserves like the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary which offer grassland and wetland birds alongside Kibale’s forest species.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is definitely worth a visit and it’s location between Kibale and Bwindi/Mgahinga make it an ideal place to spend a night between seeing the more impressive chimps and gorillas of the other parks. Because the wildlife is rather sparse in the park, grab a guide from the front gate if you must see the leopards and lions, the views from the crater area is magnificent. A trip with the Jetty up Kazinga Channel is an absolutely must, the bird life is second to none and watching the elephants coming for a swim at sunset is not bad either.
As for accommodation, I highly recommend camping inside the park if you have the gear – great views, inexpensive and a nice way to experience the park. Don’t worry about breakfast as there is a restaurant about 5 minutes from the campsite with an amazing view over the lake.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
This park is called impenetrable for good reason. Its dense rain-forests make gorilla tracking hard work but the hour spent with these wonderful creatures is totally worth all the effort and expense and one you’ll never forget. Uganda’s central attraction is the opportunity to track one of the world’s last surviving mountain gorilla populations on the misty green slopes of Bwindi Impenetrable or Mgahinga National Park.
This is arguably the ultimate African wildlife encounter: the simple exhilaration attached to first setting eyes on one of these gentle giants is difficult to describe. Be prepared for some steep, muddy climbs on indiscernible tracks that frequently demand machetes to hack a way through the vines, thorns and shrubs. A big part of what makes the gorilla trek so special is that these big apes are so closely related to humans (the difference in DNA is only about 1.6%).
