About Uganda

Visiting Uganda for wildlife safaris is overwhelming due to the variety of wildlife abundance. Uganda offers the big five in plenty, lion, elephant, giraffe, hippo rhino, and buffalo. Uganda is a Holiday paradise for watching wildlife safaris and tours. Uganda offers a wide range of diversity of wildlife animal species in a spectacular natural landscape ranging from lakes, rivers, savannah grasslands, tropical forests, and mountains. Large herds of wildlife animals of elephant, buffalo, Uganda kob, and topis, leopard as well as climbing lions at Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth and at Kidepo national parks combined with Murchison falls national park give visitors what long time Explorers called Uganda the “the pearl of Africa” due to the overwhelming wonders and wildlife diversity for wildlife tours in Uganda.

Uganda has one of the highest tourism potentials in the world, with fantastic natural scenery and is home to half of the world’s remaining mountain gorilla population. It offers world-class white water rafting at the source of the Nile and has some of the region’s most peaceful national parks where wildlife viewing doesn’t involve long waits in the queue behind a dozen or more vehicles. That’s not all. Uganda also has the highest mountain range in Africa, the Rwenzori Mountains; one of the most powerful waterfalls in the world, Murchison Falls; the highest primate density in the world, in Kibaale Forest National Park; and more diverse tourist attractions countrywide.

Chimpanzee tracking safaris or call them chimpanzee trekking tours are rich and yielding much here in Uganda. Uganda primate tracking safaris involve tracking chimpanzees at Kibale forest national park,  at Kyambura and Kalinzu at Queen Elizabeth National park and even at Murchison Falls at Kaniyo Pabidi at Budongo Forest.  At Kibale Forest will do Chimpanzee tracking and also do chimpanzee habituation experience.  Uganda is famous for primate watching tours and all along while tracking chimpanzees will have the chance of viewing other primates including baboons, variety o dazzling species of monkeys including black and white Colobus monkeys, red-tailed and blue monkeys, L’Hoest’s and many more.  Uganda is the world’s leading premier primate viewing destination due to its large population of chimpanzees.

Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale forest National park in Uganda is possibly the best as to where to view chimpanzees in the world. Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale has approximately over  1,400 chimps in the forest, about 120 are habituated.  The habituated chimpanzees are the ones allowed to be tracked by humans. Tracking is entering deep into the forest and getting ready and soon discover that coming until you face to face with a chimpanzee isn’t something you can ever really be prepared for.

It’s a lot like unexpectedly running into an old friend you haven’t seen in years, or being startled by your own reflection. For a moment you freeze as you try and make sense of it all. Simply put, it’s impossible not to be moved. You will spend some hours with different chimp groups. We will see elders with grey beards, dominant alpha males, and females with newborn babies. But we will see even more wild animals like elephants if you are lucky may encounter leopard mongoose etc.  We see how intelligent these beings are when they decide to use their language, tools, and make a ‘home’ to sleep in come dusk. So this is seeing another society you have not seen before focusing on them.

Amazing Birding safaris experiences in Africa are found in Uganda. Uganda has the best diversity of habitats that support over 1000 bird species and the highest in any African country. Uganda Birding tours will avail special bird species like the shoebill stork and numerous endemics of Albertine Rift Valley that are difficult to be found elsewhere on African soils. Our Bird Guides are knowledgeable and will help you to identify more than 100 species in a single day here in Uganda.  We shall tailor-make your birding safari to suit your interests. Travel hemispheres have specialized Bird Guides that will conduct you on birding safaris of Uganda a lifetime birding tour. Uganda avian life is rich in many savannah acacia grassland species, Swamp species,  montane forests, and water birds. Our national parks have developed Acacia grass woodlands that harbor many bird species in Africa. So Uganda the best country where to watch woodland, rainy forest species as it is believed in Uganda its where the grasslands, woodlands meet the semi-desert habitats in Africa. shoebill, secretary bird, Abyssinian roller and a ground hornbill, pied Kingfisher, Red-throated bee-eaters lignin at the banks, Goliath heron, saddle Billed stork, sacred Ibis, Fulvous whistling Duck, Senegal, and water Thick Knees, Black-headed and long-toed lapwing, little Bittern, Osprey, red Necked Falcon, Blue Breasted Bee-Eater, Vinaceous Dove, and Grosbeak Weaver.

Uganda is still predominantly of rural setting people by settlement. Its last decade that most societies are transforming into modern – urban settlements with clusters in small towns spread countryside. Traditional lifestyles and tribal cultural ways of life are still live in many parts of Uganda. Uganda was recently listed among the top countries with the happiest people in the world. Ugandans are generally reputable for openness and very friendly to visitors.  There are many various people of different cultural backgrounds who make up Country Uganda each with their traditional customs and way of life. These customs are kept alive in their traditional colorful ceremonies at different historical events while performing dances, or storytelling.  The Karamajongo in the northeast of the country still practices traditional rich culture.

While on the Kidepo valley National Park wildlife safari, Visitors will be entertained by traditional dances such as the Emuya dance of the Napore and Nyanga, ethnic groups, and the Lakaraka and Apiti dances of Acholi. Visitors will who do cultural safaris will visit Karimonjong  Manyattas (homesteads) and probably Kraals to see traditional customs, stools spears, headdresses, knives, bows, and arrows, and jewelry, some of which may also be obtained from the park tourist offices.  Travel hemispheres will help you to arrange guided cultural safari in Karamajongo settlements.

In addition to the cultural experiences, visitors will be choosing souvenirs from traditional cultural art craft shops where they can pick art pieces, handcrafts, skins,  usually along the roadside shops and curio shops in Kampala city. Uganda has got a rich history displayed in songs, dance, music theatre, and art. Our Cuisine is as eclectic as her many ethnic groupings.  Over forty languages are spoken in Uganda.

Uganda has some rich cultural sites like the Bulange the seat of the Kabaka of Buganda. Kasubi Royal Tombs and other historical sites can be explored while on a cultural tour in Uganda.

Uganda offers the most challenging mountain of all African mountains. The Rwenzori Mountain ranges with its peak at 5109m make it among the tallest in Africa.  This mountain was sought by Ptolemy in 150 AD who referred to it as snow-capped mountains of the moon. It comes after mountain Kenya and Kilimanjaro in height in Africa. Uganda is also famous for the volcanic mountains of Mount Elgon with the biggest caldera in Africa.  Uganda volcano mountaineering tour will consist of three challenging peaks to climb in southwestern Uganda to climb up the mountain peaks and include Muhavura, Gahinga, and Sabinyo all situated at Mgahinga national park. Our Mountaineering safaris offer a lot, a variety of mammals and variety of vegetation and fascinating scenery. The Rwenzoris have snow-capped peaks along the Equator.