Uganda’s best wildlife parks to explore : Uganda has top 10 national parks where tourists on a safari can explore the wildlife. The Pearl of Africa is a place that is very beautiful. They have a wide range of landscapes, including the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon. Three looming volcanoes can be found in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla Park, which are both places where mountain gorillas live in safety. There are five Savannah Parks. Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake Mburo National Park, Murchison falls national park, Semuliki national park, Kidepo valley national park which gives hints of Africa’s wild on a Uganda safari.
Kibale Forest National Park is the best place in East Africa to see primates more especially the chimpanzees. In a jungle-like setting, the Park is home to over thirteen kinds of primates, as well as wildlife, a lot of birds, and butterflies.
Last, Mount Elgon National Park in the east is on both Ugandan and Kenyan territory. Before it blew its top, it was the largest mountain in Africa. Here, climbing is cheap and there aren’t many people.
- Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Most people who come to Uganda want to see mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which is in the southwest of the country. The most mountain gorillas live in the Park, which is a refuge for gorillas. There are rare L’Hoest’s Monkeys, Black and White Colobus, Baboons, and four other kinds of primate all living together. As you look around this magical forest, you might even see some forest elephants.
In the ancient Rainforest, there are over 200 species of trees, 120 species of mammals, 27 species of frogs, geckos, chameleons, 220 species of butterflies, 348 species of birds, and other threatened species. CNN also said it was one of Africa’s best parks.
CNN Travel named it the most beautiful place on earth for 2019. They also put the Park on their “Best Hikes in the World List.”The Park is also one of the best places in Africa to watch birds.
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park.
Even though it is a small of Uganda’s national parks, it is high on our list because there are so many things to do there. It’s a paradise for people who love the outdoors, but it’s not on the usual tourist route. It’s a park without a lot of people.
It is one of those rare, out-of-the-way exciting safari spots in the Virunga Volcanoes. The locals call it Mufumbiro Mountain, which means the mountains that cook the dormant volcanoes. Mountain Gorillas and the rare Golden Monkeys can be trekked from here. Climb Mount Muhavura, Mount Gahinga, or Mount Sabinyo, which are all part of the Virunga range. In this small but beautiful park, if you walk along the Border or Sabinyo Gorge Trail, you might see forest elephants and other animals.
See the forest through the eyes of the Batwa, the first people to live there. For thousands of years, they lived in Mgahinga Gorilla Park, which is now part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. In the 1960s, Walter Baumgartel and his Batwa guide Reuben Rwazangire took guests from his Travellers Rest Hotel in Kisoro to see the Mountain Gorillas in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. This made the Park the first place where people went to see gorillas.
- Kibale Forest National Park.
With over 1,500 chimpanzees, Kibale Forest National Park is the best place in East Africa to go chimpanzee trekking safari. Here is where the jungles of West and East Africa meet.
There are 13 kinds of primates here, including chimps, which are our closest animal relatives.
The Park is one of the best places to do study in Africa. Most of the researchers in Kibale Park study the chimpanzees and other primates that live there. Others study the forests, wild pigs, and fish species in the park.
There are also more than 375 kinds of birds in the Park. Kibale National Park is next to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This makes a wildlife passage of 180 km between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sebitoli in the north of Kibale National Park, which is in the remote southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park.
The Kibale-Fort Portal area is one of the best places to visit in Uganda. It is a great place for people who love primates, birds, and butterflies. It is also home to Forest Elephants, Forest Buffaloes, and Leopards, but they are rarely seen and the creator lakes.
- Murchison Falls National Park.
The northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley is where Murchison Falls National Park is. One thing that makes the Park unique is that the River Nile runs right through the middle of it. Also, the western Rift cliff makes the most powerful waterfall in the world as the river drops forty-five metres.
Below Murchison Falls, the river slows down and becomes a wide, calm stream that runs quietly through the rift valley floor and into Lake Albert. This part of the river is one of the best places to see wildlife in Uganda.
On a boat cruise safari, you can see elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, hippos, the huge Nile crocodiles, monitor lizards, and water birds. This is one of the best parts of your trip to the Park. In the northern part of the Park, you can find savannah, riverine forest, Borassus palms, and acacia trees. At the north end of the Albertine Rift Valley, where the Bunyoro escarpment falls into a large, palm-dotted grassland, the south is mostly wooded and forest patches.
Murchison Falls Park is Uganda’s biggest and oldest conservation area. It is home to 76 species of mammals, including over 1,000 Nubian (Rothschild-Baringo-Uganda) Giraffes and 451 species of birds. The Park is a place to see all kinds of animals.
Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, and several British royals are among the famous people who have been to the Park. Part of the 1951 movie “The African Queen,” starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, was shot in Murchison Falls National Park on Lake Albert and the Nile.
- Queen Elizabeth National Park.
People have said that the Park in the shadow of the Rwenzori Mountains is “a medley of natural wonders,” and that’s a good description. It is easy to see why it is one of the most popular parks in the country. It is best known for its large groups of Elephants, Tree-Climbing Lions, the Kazinga Channel Wildlife boat safari, the huge Maragambo Forest, the huge explosion craters, and the famous Kyambura Gorge, which has been shown on BBC.
In Queen Elizabeth National Park, the River Nile does not run through it like it does in Murchison Falls National Park. Instead, the Equator goes through the Park here.
Kazinga National Park was the first name for the park. In honour of Queen Elizabeth’s visit in 1954, the Park was renamed Queen Elizabeth National Park, and that name has stuck ever since.
Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda is called “a medley of wonders” and is one of the country’s must-see places.
- Kidepo Valley National Park.
Kidepo Valley National Park is a great place to see wildlife in northeastern Uganda. When you’re on a game drive safari, you feel like you’re the only person in the park. You are in the most remote park in both Uganda and East Africa as a whole.
The Karamojong are a Herder-Warrior group, and the 1k People were the first people to live in the area. They live high on Mount Morungole, where there are no roads or other signs of modernity.
Kidepo Valley Park is wild, beautiful, and full of animals, just like you thought Africa would be, but even better. A park that you shouldn’t miss. It’s on a lot of people’s bucket lists, but there aren’t many people there, so it’s still nice and new.
In Kidepo Valley National Park, you can fly in and see Africa as it used to be and as it is now.
- Lake Mburo National Park.
In Lake Mburo National Park, you can hear the sounds of the African wild. The smallest of the Savannah Parks is in the middle of the road that goes from Kampala to Mgahinga Gorilla Park and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Many people stop here to see the animals and 350 kinds of birds.
Lake Mburo National Park is the only place where you can ride a bike, ride a horse, go hiking, or even jog through the Park.
It is the only park in western Uganda where you can see Burchell zebras, Nubian (Rothschild) zebras, and the big Eland antelopes. Also there are impala, buffalo, oribi, Defassa waterbuck, leopard, hippo, crocodiles, hyena, topi, and reedbuck.
Lake Mburo National Park is a must-see if you are going west to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Mgahinga Gorilla Park, Lake Bunyonyi, Lake Mutanda, or Queen Elizabeth Park.
- Semliki National Park.
Semliki (Semuliki) National Park and Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve are part of Uganda’s Western Rift. They are both in the Semliki Valley. A part of Uganda that is not like the rest. It is where the huge Lturi Forest in DR Congo flows into Uganda.
It’s a beautiful park that’s not on the usual Tourist Paths. It is a must-see for birdwatchers and a park for people who want to see the Central African Jungle in East Africa.
The park is the only place in East Africa where you can see a real lowland tropical forest jungle. It is the Park where some of the best and most tropical jungle, savanna, hot spring, and lake can be found. Albert found a lot of different plants and animals in Africa. There were 441 kinds of birds and 53 kinds of mammals, like chimps.
The Sempaya Hot Springs trail is a “must-do-hike” for people who come to the Park. Near the Park, people from four different cultures live. The Bwamba farmers live at the base of the Rwenzori, and the Bakonjo farmers work the slopes of the mountain. Batuku people who take care of cattle live on the open fields, and the Batwa were the first people to live in the forest.
When you go to Semliki National Park, you get a taste of the Congo. The Semliki River, which forms the border with DR Congo, is like a smaller version of the Congo River.
- Rwenzori Mountains National Park.
Many people don’t go to the Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon because they think that only mountain climbers can do anything there. In the slopes of the Mountains of the Moon, there are a lot of things to do.
You can stay in a town, hike, watch birds, and walk through nature without crowds. One of our clients’ favorite places in Uganda was there.
You can also climb some of the hills that are covered in snow. Most glaciers will be gone in 20 years, so now is the time to climb them before it’s too late. One better thing is that climbing to the top of the Mountains of the Moon is a lot cheaper than anywhere else.
Queen Elizabeth Park, Kibale Forest, and Semliki Park are all near the Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon. In the Foothills, you can see the Park, or you can walk to the Peaks.
- Mount Elgon National Park.
Mount Elgon was the tallest rock in Africa for 24 million years, but then it blew its top. Before it blew, it was much taller than Mount Kilimanjaro is now.
Mount Elgon’s volcanic base is the world’s largest at 4,000 km2. The mountain is on the border between Uganda and Kenya and is the oldest and biggest single-volcano peak in East Africa.
Its huge shape stands more than 3,000 metres above the fields around it. The cool heights of the mountain offer a break from the heat of the plains below, and the higher levels are a safe place for plants and animals.
Most climbers find that the best part isn’t getting to the top of 4,231-meter Wagagi Peak, but going down into the world’s biggest unbroken caldera, which is 40km2.
Mount Elgon and Sipi Falls are two of the Eastern Wonders of Uganda. You can go on nature walks, hikes, mountain bikes, rock climb, abseil, and fish for trout, climb a volcano, and do a lot more here.
It’s a great place to explore on a safari, with great hikes, beautiful nature walks, and the Bagisu and Sabinyi people to meet. It is also where the Abayudaya live, which is Uganda’s only African Jewish community. Here is where Uganda’s best runners train, and people are welcome to come watch.
