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Uganda – The Pearl Of Africa!
Visit Uganda, the Pearl of Africa and Experience for yourself the heartbeat of Africa. Uganda a land of verdant biodiversity offers some of the greatest opportunities to experience the best of East African Culture, Climate, Flora and Fauna and land. This is the only way you’ll really find out for yourself what it’s like where the Earth Comes Alive!.
Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison Falls became one of Uganda’s first national parks in 1952.
Location: Masindi District
Size:3,840km2
Altitude:127 m
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Kidepo Valley National Park
The park contains two rivers – Kidepo and Narus – which disappear in the dry season, leaving just pools for the wildlife.
Location: Karamoja District
Size:1,442km2
Altitude:914m and 2,750m
Semuliki National Park
It is the only tract of true lowland tropical forest in East Africa, hosting 441 recorded bird species and 53 mammals.
Location: Bundibugyo District
Size:220km²
Altitude:670-760m above sea level
The park is home to over 95 mammal species and over 600 bird species and it crosses latitude 00.
Location: Kasese D
Size:1,978km²
Altitude:1,300m
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Kibale National Park
Thirteen species can be sought, and a good variety of diurnal monkeys invariably encountered, but the stars of this trail are the chimpanzees.
Location: Karamoja District
Size:1,442km2
Altitude:914m and 2,750m
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Rwenzori Mountains National Park
The Rwenzori is not volcanic like East Africa’s other major mountains but is a block of rock up-faulted through the floor of the Western Rift Valley
Location: Bundibugyo District
Size:996km2
Altitude: 5,109 m
Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rain forests, which dates back over 25,000 years and contains almost 400 species of plants.
Location: South – Western Uganda (Kisoro)
Size:1,978km²
Altitude:1,300m
Lake Mburo National Park
It is the smallest of Uganda’s savannah national parks and underlain by ancient Precambrian metamorphic rocks which date back more than 500 million years.
Location: Nyabushozi County, Kiruhura District
Size:370 km2
Altitude:1,220m – 1,828m above sea level
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
It is the only tract of true lowland tropical forest in East Africa, hosting 441 recorded bird species and 53 mammals.
Location: Bundibugyo District
Size:220km²
Altitude:670-760m above sea level