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Discovering Uganda on a Self Drive Road Trip

There are very many things that can make a Ugandan safari memorable than what you can expect, Uganda is one of the African countries which has very many tourist attraction which everyone can’t wish to miss to see when in this east African country. When in your own rental car you can discover Uganda’s secretes within few days. Crossing from one region to another could be a walk over and at your own convenience. With a rental car in Uganda you can drive wherever you wish to go with our self-drive comfortable vehicles.

In each region of Uganda there is an interesting attraction, in the far northern part of Uganda is the Kidepo Valley National park, this park is ranked among the top interesting places in Africa with a wide variety of wildlife some of which are rarely seen in other parks like giraffe, Burch ell’s Zebras, lions can be spotted sited on rocks, buffaloes, hyena among many others, the Sand along river Kidepo offers resting opportunity. When you try the north eastern part of Uganda you meet Uganda’s largest and bio diversified national park Murchison falls with spectacular view of the River Nile. It’s where the Nile squeezes through an 8m wide gorge and plunges with a thunderous roar into the Devil’s Cauldron’’, creating trademark rainbow you’ve never seen, the park is gifted with different species of life like giraffe, chimpanzee, baboons, lion and buffaloes are also present among others. From here, crossing to Kibale forest national park can be done in just about 7-8 hours. This wonderful park is blessed with over 13 species of primates coupled with chimpanzee the closest relative of man sharing almost 98% genes with human, however other primate species have also attracted very many travelers to this park like the baboons, black and white colobus monkey, civet monkeys just to mention but a few, bird watching is superb as the park is gifted with over 300 species of birds, other activities include community walk, nature walk make the park a can’t miss to visit when in a self-drive safari.

From Kibale you can proceed quickly to Queen Elizabeth national park for a drive of about 3 hours up to the park. QENP is gifted with rare and interesting species like the tree climbing lions, buffaloes, elephant, leopard, various species of antelopes and birds and all these can be seen during a game drive in our flexible and comfortable vehicles like Rav 4, 4WD super custom, Land cruiser. The park has many interesting activities like boat cruise at the Kazinga channel that connects lakes Kyoga and George, here you will be fortunate to come across several species of animals in a close distance like schools of hippos and crocodiles, buffaloes and elephants can be seen at the shoreline and many birds that feed on the lake.

Why not drive to bwind impenetrable national park to meet the rare primate the mountain gorillas which are only found to this park and Mgahinga gorilla forest national park. You will park at the park headquarters and then head to the rain tropical forest with a ranger guide and start searching for these giant apes. Gorilla tracking is the most interesting done activity on earth spending two hours while studying the behaviors of these giants is a moment in life difficult to forget. You can decide to visit other Uganda tourist attractions like Lake Bunyonyi the second deepest lake in the world enjoy activities like canoe ride, visit Semulike valley for chimpanzee and game drive, Lake Mburo for a game drive, boat ride, cultural walk. Enjoy Kampala city tour to meet very many interesting places like the national museum, Kasubi tombs and many others interesting places in the city. Indeed these and many other Uganda tourist attraction can be explored if you hire a self-drive car its very flexible to go to each and every corner of Uganda.