Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park together with Murchison Falls National Park are the oldest parks in Uganda. In commemoration of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Uganda in 1954, the park was named Queen Elizabeth National Park but before that it was Lake Edward and Lake George game reserves in the 1920s, later changed to Kazinga National Park […]
Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison Falls National Park, formerly referred to as Kabalega National Park is the largest game park in Uganda covering approximately 3,893 square kilometers. It is located in the northwestern part of the country spreading from the shores of Lake Albert around the Victoria Nile up to Karuma falls. The park sits in up to 4 […]
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Other than Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, the other place to find endangered mountain gorillas is the Mgahinga gorilla national park, found in southwestern part of Uganda 10km south of Kisoro district in Bufumbira County. This is the smallest of all Uganda’s national parks. Mgahinga National Park is part of the Virunga Mountain ranges and is bordered […]
Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo National Park is the smallest park in Uganda located in Nyabushozi County in Kiruhura district western part of the country. Kiruhura District is 30 kilometers east of Mbarara and 240 kilometers west of Kampala. It is the closest park near Kampala, and it can be accessed through the Kampala-Masaka highway via Masaka which […]
Nyungwe National Park
Whereas Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, is undoubtedly gifted by nature as a whole, Nyungwe National Park is an iconic adventure park where landscapes from storybooks come alive. Located in the great western rift valley, in the southwestern region of Rwanda, the park is home to over 400 hundred chimpanzees. The chimpanzees roam […]
KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
One of Uganda’s most magnificently endowed yet scattered savannah grassland is the Kidepo Valley National Park set so far apart from the rest of Uganda’s parks but still presents a marvelous safari adventure. Kidepo Valley National Park lies in the semi-arid valley of Karamoja region, Kaabong district in the northeast Uganda vastly cast across 1,442 […]
VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
In the far Northwestern region of Rwanda lies the Volcanoes National Park also known as Parc National de Volcans in French. Covering over 160 Km 2 of rainforest cover, it consists of five volcanoes which are Karisimbi(4,507m), Bisoke(3,711m), Muhabura(4,127m), Gahinga(3,474m) and Sabyinyo(3,634m) but these are only part of the initial eight that make up the […]
