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Murchison Falls National Park
The Murchison Falls National Park, best described as the “jewel in Uganda’s crown” is Uganda’s largest National Park and one of the most attractive places in Africa. The Park is dissected almost in the middle by the River Nile and its landscape stretches from the thick rainforests of the hills in the southwest to the unexpected savannah areas in the northwest. The forest gives many primates, including chimpanzees, protection and a home. Along the course of the river one will meet different types of antelopes, buffaloes, elephants and Rothschild-giraffes.
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Queen Elizabeth National Park
Under protection of the UNESCO, QENP was declared a Biosphere-Reserve since it is a jewel under the National Parks.
The fauna and flora of the park are rich and the landscape has a wide range from savannah with Acacia and Candelabra trees, rain forests, thick Papyrus-Swamps, craters and crater lakes to the water body of Lake Edward. The environment in the Queen Elizabeth National Park is miraculous and awaits you with one of the richest varieties within one National Park worldwide.
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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Such a wonderful sight of Verdant swathe. The steep edges of the Albertine-Rift-Valley are covered with this old tropical forest – one of the few that survived the last ice age in Africa – and are the habitat for about half of the population of the last Mountain Gorillas of the world.
Exchanging a glance with one of these gentle giants is among the most exciting adventures that those who love animals can experience in Africa.
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Lake Mburo National Park
Lying in a part of Uganda with extended acacia forests and bush land, Lake Mburo National Park has a completely different fauna compared to the nature reserves located further west of the country. Its semblance is rather more of the typical landscapes of East-Africa.
Lake Mburo offers the best opportunities for viewing the big Elands, Burchell’s Zebras, Topis, Buffalos and Impalas. With roughly 310 species, birds are also well represented.
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Kibale National Park
Kibale is one of Uganda’s most accessible main tropical forests with an immense range of animals and plants. The National Park is habitat to an astonishing 13 species of primates among which are the rare Red Colobus and the L’hoest's monkey. Kibale has one the world’s highest diversity of primates in one habitat.
Kibale’s main attraction is Chimpanzee tracking. That means that visitors have the unique possibility to observe habituated chimpanzees in their natural environment.
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Semliki National Park
The great Semliki National Park (or Semuliki National Park) – earlier called Toro Game Reserve – is an easterly branch of the Congolese Ituri Forest and is regarded as the result of climatic change during the Pleistocene time. It is a laid-back forest area between Lake Albert and the underside of the Rwenzori ("Mountains of the Moon") - Mountain Range on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is truly one of the most beautiful regions of Uganda, directly on the East-African Rift Valley.
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Kidepo Valley National Park
The Kidepo Valley National Park is one of the most wonderful parks in Uganda. It is 1,442 sq km large and has a landscape which is unsurpassed by any other National Park in East-Africa. It is accessible either by road or by air. The most commonly driven route from Kampala is via Mbale, Soroti and Moroto, an 840 km journey taking a minimum of 12 hours in a Four Wheel Drive.
Hidden in the extreme North-East of Uganda on the border with Sudan and Kenya, the park offers breathtaking savannah landscapes that end in a steep horizon.
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Rwenzori Mountains National Park
A first description of the "Mountains of the Moon" as the Rwenzori Mountains are called was written in 150 b. C. By that time the mountain chain was imbedded in the kingdom of the Romanian-Greek Ptolemy-Dynasty in Alexandria.
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park is part of UNESCO's world-nature-heritage. Its highest peak, Point Margherita is with its 5.109 m the third-highest summit in Africa. The mountains offer everything that leaves mountaineers, researchers and hikers beaming with joy.
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Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
The Mgahinga Gorilla National Park lies in the south-western region of Uganda and covers the northern slopes of the three most northern volcanoes of the Virunga Mountains: Mount Muhavura (4.127 m), Mount Gahinga (3.474 m) and Mount Sabyinyo (3.645 m).
Mount Mgahinga Gorilla National Park lays in a distance of about 14 km from Kisoro Town and boarders the republic of Rwanda in the south and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west.
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Mount Elgon National Park
Mount Elgon is a 4.321 m high inactive extinct volcano which used to be higher than the Kilimanjaro is today. However, this was more than 10 million years ago, in prehistorical times.
Although Mount Elgon is right at the Uganda-Kenya boarder, its highest summit, the Wagagai Peak, lies within Uganda and can be perfectly reached from this side. The boarders of the National Park are made up by the 1.147 km² of the massif.
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Katonga Wildlife Reserve
The Katonga Wildlife Reserve was declared a nature protection area in 1964 and is a region with many attractions. The reserve is situated on the shores of River Katonga and is a rich ecosystem with different species of animals and mixed savannah, covered with wonderful Acacia trees and partly forest. A big division of the area is permanent and seasonal moor-land.
Katonga’s landscape is special and so driving through by car is not allowed- which anyway would not even be possible. On foot however the area can properly be explored and you will enjoy its beauty in peace and quiet.
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Mount Moroto
Mount Moroto, located in the Karamoja province of Uganda lies in Moroto District in the extreme East of Uganda, bordering the districts of Kenya further East, Kotido in the North, Lira and Soroti to the west and Kumi, Mbale, Kapchorwa in the South.
It is the most accessible place to see some of the dry northeastern beauty of Uganda. Ranging from 920-3084m above sea level, Mount Moroto is one of a chain of volcanoes along the Uganda – Kenya border that begins with Mount Elgon in the south and includes Mounts Kadam and Morungole.
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