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8 days 7 nights
Daily Tour
6 people
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Kidepo is Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the few who make the long journey north through the wild frontier region of Karamoja would agree that it is also the most magnificent, for Kidepo ranks among Africa’s finest wildernesses. From Apoka, in the heart of the park, a savannah landscape extends far beyond the gazetted area, towards horizons outlined by distant mountain ranges.
Offering some of the most stunning scenery of any protected area in Uganda, Kidepo Valley National Park is hidden away in a lost valley in the extreme northeast of Uganda. The rolling, short-grass savannah of the 1442-sq-km national park is ringed by mountains and cut by rocky ridges. Kidepo is most notable for harbouring a number of animals found nowhere else in Uganda, including cheetahs, bat-eared foxes, aardwolves, caracals and greater and lesser kudus
Upon arrival in Entebbe, you shall be received by our guide who will drive you to a COVID-19 testing center for testing. Afterwards, check in at Protea Hotel for an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Protea Entebbe
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
After breakfast, you will depart for Murchison Falls National Park. En-route you will pass through a green countryside awash with crop gardens. You may have brief stops on the way for photography or to purchase fresh fruits from any of the many roadside markets. Before reaching the park, you will take a detour to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary; the only home of Rhinos in Uganda. You will have the opportunity of tracking the Rhinos on foot and at a close distance. The sanctuary aims at breeding enough rhinos to reintroduce the animals to the wilderness having got extinct. After lunch at the sanctuary, you will thereafter proceed to Murchison falls national park and before you check in at the lodge, you will first drive to the top of Murchison falls where you shall take a guided walk to the top of falls. Enjoy the magnificent views and photography of the Nile falling below a 40m cliff. You will thereafter proceed to the Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Paara Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner
After breakfast, you will head into the park with its beautiful landscape for a morning game drive that will give you an opportunity to encounter a wide range of animal species like Giraffe, warthogs, buffalo, elephants, lions and numerous antelopes. After lunch you will take a boat cruise upstream to the bottom of the falls. During the cruise, you will be able to meet the Nile crocodiles at the shores of the
Nile River, big pools of hippos, elephants and many other animals that come to the river to drink. Your onboard tour guide will help you spot and identify numerous birds along the Nile.
Accommodation: Paara Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner
After breakfast, you will embark on the road for your transfer to Kidepo valley national Park. Sometimes referred to as the true African wilderness, this park is one of the remotest and less explored tourism destinations in Uganda. It is blessed with abundance of wildlife, beautiful scenery and rich local cultures of the surrounding Karamojong communities. Upon arrival at Kidepo valley national park, you will drive to the lodge. Later in the evening, you will an evening game drive.
Accommodation: Apoka Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
You will have full day game viewing at the park. After your breakfast, you will head into the park to encounters with different residents of the park that include the Giraffes, Buffaloes, Elephants, Zebras, Lions and many other different animal and bird species. You will have a ranger guide to assist you to spot animals. Kidepo valley has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as around 475 bird species. Dinner and overnight stay at Apoka Lodge
Accommodation: Apoka Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After your breakfast, you will head into the park for your morning game drive. During the game drive you may have encounters with different residents of the park that include the Giraffes, Buffaloes, Elephants, Zebras, Lions and many other different animal and bird species. You will have a ranger guide to assist you to spot animals. Kidepo valley has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77
mammal species as well as around 475 bird species. In the afternoon, you will have a walk to the IKE people communities who live around the park in the Morungole mountain. They will take you through their endangered culture which you will enjoy as you listen to them. Dinner and overnight stay at the Lodge.
Accommodation: Apoka Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After your breakfast, you will head into the park for your morning game drive. During the game drive you may have encounters with different residents of the park that include the Giraffes, Buffaloes, Elephants, Zebras, Lions and many other different animal and bird species. You will have a ranger guide to assist you to spot animals. Kidepo valley has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as around 475 bird species. In the evening, you will have a community walk to the local Karamojong communities who live around the park. These communities are some of the few in the country whose cultures have been less diluted by changing times. You will get an opportunity to visit their homesteads made of sticks and thatched known as manyattas. Here you will see the tools they use in their daily lives including those they used for hunting. They will also narrate to you through a local guide about their pastoralist way of life. Later you will take part in their traditional dancing and singing as you conclude this tour. Dinner and overnight stay at the Lodge.
Accommodation: Apoka Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After breakfast, you shall be transferred to teh airstrip for your air transfer back to Entebbe.
Accommodation: (You may choose to overnight)
Meal plan: Lunch.
