In addition, this country is popularly known its tourist attractions and many interesting activities that tourists can do while exploring around different areas and some of these activities include the following below;

Gorilla Trekking. 

Gorilla trekking is always on a bucket list of almost all individuals who are on a safari in Uganda and this activity is best done from destinations like; Bwindi Impenetrable national park and Mgahinga Gorilla national park, which are known for hosting large remaining populations of world’s Mountain Gorillas. Gorilla trekking always involves tourists to move through different jungles of the park in search for these fascinating and thrilling primates. Tourists while on a Uganda gorilla trekking safaris are always accompanied with an experienced park guide or ranger who are familiar with all the parts of the park. During the trekking, you will also get to see a lot of the park’s hidden gems like the animals who live in the parks forested area such as the forest elephants, forest buffaloes, different primate’s species including the chimpanzees, bird species as well as the stunning views of the park’s vegetation. Gorilla trekking safaris in Uganda only allows visitors one hour interaction with these exceptional primates, observing their daily activities in their natural habitat and also taking pictures and videos to show home people. Tourists planning to trek these fascinating primates are required to book a Ugandan gorilla tracking primate with any of your trusted tour operator and these permits are only allowed to persons above 15-year-old with a maximum of 8 individuals to trek one habituated group in a day.

Wildlife viewing / game drives

Uganda offers incredible wildlife watching game drive experiences with good privacy in less crowded safari parks. Uganda is a home to the famous African Big animals including lions, elephants, giraffes, hippos, buffalo, zebra, and many antelope species. wildlife viewing one of the best safari experiences in Uganda because of the fewer tourists within the national parks. Uganda has four famous national parks that offer the finest safari game drives that cannot be experienced anywhere else in Africa, such national parks include Lake Mburu, Queen Elizabeth, Murchison Falls, and Kidepo Valley National Park. Lake Mburo, the smallest national park, and offers exceptional safari experiences including walking safaris, boat trips, and horseback riding safaris that get you an arm’s distance to big animals. Queen Elizabeth National Park, very famous to most tourists, offers the best game viewing and boat safari experiences that get close to big animals like lions, buffalo, hippos, elephants, leopards, and small animals like antelope and warthogs

Birding safaris

Uganda is a bird watcher’s paradise, rich with diverse habitats and abundant bird species making it a must-visit destination for anyone interested in bird watching. Uganda offers a unique and unforgettable bird watching experience that will leave you in wonder of the country’s natural beauty. Uganda has got a lot of birding spots scattered all over the country such as the national park, swamps, forests, rivers, lakes, mountains among others, making it an excellent birding destination sites with a variety of habitants. While on a gird watching safari in Uganda, you will be amazed with different bird species as well as those that are endemic to the Uganda’s Albertine Rift such as the blue swallow, pallid harrier, papyrus gonolek, and swamp flycatcher, the pygmy goose, white-winged warbler, lesser jacana, Vieillot’s weaver, palm-nut vulture, grosbeak weaver, kingfisher, black-headed weaver, Clarke’s weaver, and Carruthers’s cisticola, and northern brown-throated weaver. Brown-throated Weaver, Papyrus, Gonolek, Albertine Owlet, Shelley’s Crimsonwing, and Rockefeller’s Sunbird White-Winged. Rwenzori Turaco among others.

Chimpanzees tracking

Chimpanzee trekking is one of the famous activities offered to visitors while a Uganda safari. Chimpanzees tracking in Uganda is mostly done in Kibale national park, Mgahinga gorilla national park, Bwindi impenetrable national park, Nyambura gorge in queen Elizabeth national park Semliki national park among others, and Kibale National Park is highlight of Uganda chimpanzee tracking. The park offers opportunities to visitors to who seeks to have a closed encounter with is fascination creatures in their habituated families.  Uganda safaris offers a guided chimpanzees trekking safari experiences to visitor, where tourists get a guide walk to the dense rainforest in search for these fascinating creatures. These parks are à home to several habituated chimpanzee groups where chimpanzee trekking experiences are conducted daily. During the trekking process, you will also get to meet with other species such as primate species, wildlife species and others bird species that makes the forest their habitant. Once you these fascinating endangered Chimpanzee are encountered, you will be allowed to interact with them for only 1 hour observing chimpanzees as they forage for food, play with each other, and interact within their social groups. When planning to have this fascinating safari experience in Uganda, you will be requiring to book a permit which authorizes you to carry out this exciting adventure at the cost of US$ 250 per person.

Tree climbing viewing

Uganda is famous for its exceptional tree climbing lions, the Queen Elizabeth national park is the only destination in the world tourists can see the tree climbing lions that are best spotted within the Ishasha sector. Therefore, touring around this national park, tourists will sight see the tree-climbing lions as they are always relaxing and resting on big tree branches and it is noted that they always climb tree because it helps them to protect them from being bitten by the parasites and from the heat on the ground, it also helps them to watch where their prey is located which makes it easy during their hunting process.

Whitewater Rafting on The Nile

Uganda is the only safari destinations in Africa has the best rafting experiences done at the start of the mighty Nile River in Jinja. Jinja alone is famous with tourists for its adrenaline adventures enlisted on the best safari experiences in Uganda list. Visitors here will experience some of the world’s finest grade 5 whitewater rafting, bungee jumping, horseback riding, and quad biking adventure activities. Whitewater rafting in Uganda is considered one of the best one-day safari experiences, especially if you are an active adventurer and want to know how Ugandan cultures intermix with contemporary east and western cultures. It is an excellent addition the Uganda’s safari experience.

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