Antelopes of the shapes and sizes exist in Uganda in fairly large numbers. One most often associated with the country (often referred to as its ‘national antelope’) is the Uganda kob, a stocky, russet – colored animal about size of a water buck, to which it is related. Preferring moist, savannah – like habitats, the Uganda kob (also known as Thomas’s kob) can be easily seen in Lake Mburo, Murchision Falls, and Queen Elizabeth national park. In Queen Elizabeth, in particular, it is worth spending time at the kob mating ground, which is demarcated with signs, to observe some of the interesting habits of this animal.

Another, much smaller, antelope is endemic to Uganda: Bate’s pigmy antelope, weighing only tree kilos 9 seven 1bs). The smallest ungulate in East Africa, it inhabits the country’s western forests, but is rarely seen as it prefers thick cover and is very shy. Africa’s largest antelope, the eland, is also found in the country. The rare giant, or Land Derby’s eland – the male of which could weigh up to 900 kilos (2,000 1bs)  -was once was found in Northern Uganda west of the Albert Nile, but it is doubtful that any remain.

The smaller common eland  -weighing in at round 700 kilos (1,500 1bs), occurs in kidepo Valley  National park in the south of the country .Both  species feature long, spiraled horns and large dewlaps.

Kidepo Valley national park is also a home of two other beautiful, spiral – horned antelope, the greater kudu and the lesser kudu. Although, true to its name, the lesser kudu is about half the size of greater, both varieties having light brown coats and delicates white stripes down the sides of their bodies. Only the males have horns.  Two species of the awkward – looking hartebeest, with its long mournful face, exist in Uganda. Most common is Jackson’s hartebeest found Kidepo and Lake Mburo national parks. While the lewdly hartebeest occurs west of the Nile. The hartebeest’s darker cousin, the topi, is frequently seen in the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Any visitor is pretty sure to see the shaggy – looking water buck while on safari in Uganda, as it occurs trough out the country, often grazing near water the variety that occurs there is the defassa water buck which has a solid white rump. (Its relative, the common water buck, found further to the East, has a white ring on its rump.)

The handsome roan antelope is a red –dish- brown animal with short, back ward – curving horns and a small mane on the  on the back of its neck. Although said to be present in Lake Mburo and Kidepo valley National parks, it must be few in number, as sightings are rare. The rapier – horned, gregarious beisa Oryx, weighing over 200kilos (440 1bs), is a truly desert – adapted species that makes its home in Uganda in the drier parts of Kidepo Valley National Park.

Another species preferring the arid lands found in Kidepo is the delicate Grant’s gazelle, a light brown animal with lyre- shaped horns. Although herds can number up to 400, it is more common to see 20 to 400 of these gazelles grazing together on the plains.

Although quite common elsewhere in East Africa, the chestnut-colored Impala is found in Uganda only in Lake Mburo National park. Only the males have horns. Impala are tremendous jumpers, and it’s a fantastic sight to see a heard, white tails flashing, leaping over bushes and rocks, often seemingly just for the sheer joy of it.

More elusive is the bushbuck, common but shy antelope of the forest and rerine woodland. In Uganda, bushbuck can be found in most forest and national parks; it is particularly plentiful in Queen Elizabeth National park. The male bushbuck is handsome animal with dark chestnut coat flecked with white spots and stripes. The female is smaller and lighter colored and is often mistaken for a duiker, of which there are numerous species in Uganda. Most Ugandan duikers prefer forest as their habitat, but one, the grey duiker, is more often seen in woodland and savannah. The red Harvey’s, blue and yellow-backed duikers are wide spread in the country’s forests.

One of the more unusual antelope’s resident in Uganda is the situnga, found in many of the country’s papyrus swamps, where the animal’s greatly elongated hooves enable it to walk on floating vegetation. Its is very shy and hence difficult to see; when confronted, it dives under the water and hides, with only its nose showing.

The medium-sized, yellowish Bohor reedbuck, which prefers rank, medium-height grasslands as its home, may be found in Lake Mburo, Queen Elizabeth, Murchison falls national parks. Featuring small, crescent-shaped horns, it is often seen in pairs in open country near water.

Look for the smaller, 18-kilo (40-1b) Klipspringer prancing about on cliffs, rocky hillsides, and mountain screes. It is thought that the klipspringer mates for life; they are often seen in pairs. Lake Mburo National park’s home to the straw-colored Oribi, readily Identified by a large black mark, a gland, below each ear. Very much a grassland animal, it lives in small herds

Caring for the Young
Mountain gorillas have a slow rate of reproduction. Females give birth for the first time at about age 10 and will have more offspring every three or four years. A male begins to breed between 12 and 15 years, when he is in charge of his own group. Able to conceive for only about three days each month, the female produces a single young. Newborn gorillas are weak and tiny, weighing in at about 4 pounds. Their movements are as awkward as those of human infants, but their development is roughly twice as fast. At 3 or 4 months, the gorilla infant can sit upright and can stand with support soon after. It suckles regularly for about a year and is gradually weaned at about 31/2 years, when it becomes more independent.

Vocal communication among gorillas is important in within-group interactions as well as extra-group interactions. Within-group calls, include “copulatory grunts” and “whimpers” during copulation, “whines” and “whimpers” by infants, “play chuckles” during play, “intense” and “mild cough grunts” during mild threat displays, and “close” calls that include both “syllabled” and “non-syllabled” calls such as “train-grunts” and “dog whines”.”Close” calls are commonly given within the group in situations of either potential separation or potential conflict. Extra-group calls serve to alert group members of potential predation and include “barks” or are given as long-distance threat displays upon detection of another group and include the “hoot series,” which may be accompanied by chest beating. Most calling occurs within-groups during feeding times, though gorillas also call during rest periods as well.

Uganda good food, Uganda’s good living

As soon as you land down to Entebbe international airport, the first welcome is the good fresh Air than enters through you nose, however any thing more is that you will be living in the Land that where any thing grows! Your meals, will therefore likely to be packed with colorful, delicious produce, fresh from the local markets.

Not only does this ensure that you will be thoroughly nourished, ready to make most of your Uganda safari Adventure interesting, it also means that you will be contributing to the national economy with through the payment of your bills after enjoying the fresh food. Policies are made to encourage visitors to source from the producers as much as possible for the goods consumed by our Uganda trail guests. This makes for better value, a more solid and stable local employment system, fresh food and healthier planet.

Besides it seems insane to fly food from whole over the world when the local trees and fields are groaning under the weight of our own produce. While you are with us, make sure you try the local dishes such as Nile parch or tilapia for those who enjoy fish dishes, or tuck into the gloriously tasty and colorful local fruits salads and vegetables.

Those who prefer to stay with what they know will still benefit – because even the other dishes like the British, Italian, Indian, Greek, Chinese, and other international fare on offer are still made with freshly local ingredients in different hotels, Lodges and restaurants, the choice is yours

9 DAYS MURCHISON FALLS , KIBALE, QUEEN, BWINDI, L.MBURO

On the first day A pleasantly planned safari will head towards the north a journey pleasant to travel and  it will allows a  lunch break in Masindi town before driving through to the budongo forest to the mighty Murchison falls encountering with variety of birds, monkeys, and baboons. on arrival to the park, a late afternoon refreshing walk to the top of the Murchison falls and will stay over night at to your pre-booked hotel in the park.

On the second day, a rise early in the morning for game drive that enables one to see some Giraffe, lion,  Elephant, Oribi, Bushbuck, Bohor reedbuck hyena and if your lucky, the leopard and a three hours boat ride in the afternoon after lunch cruising to the bottom of the falls, this allows  more bird watching of species like the shoebill and animals like: – crocodiles, hippos and elephants, before retiring to the hotel for over  for dinner and overnight on ful board.

This day three after an early morning breakfast, will include a departure to Kibale forest national park through Hoima with some packed lunch stop a long a cool place under a good looking tree before proceeding to Kibale to stop at the  hotel for dinner and overnight

The fourth day in the Early morning will transfer to the park for chimps tracking and after lunch transfer to Queen  Elizabeth arriving for dinner and overnight at the pre-booked hotel/lodge.

Fiffth day will includ a game drive after an early warm up tea or coffee, return for afull break fast before proceeding for a second game drive. Return for lunch and take an afternoon boat  ride on the Kazinga channel.Dinner and overnight at same hotel.

Day six, will be transfering from Queen Elizabeth National Park while enjoying the Landscape of Kigezi Highlands via the Ishasha Sector with box lunch and later arrive to Bwindi national park for overnight at hotel in this park

Seven day, Morning gorilla tracking in Bwindi, and afternoon lunch, village walk to the pygmies return for overnight on full board basis.

Eigth day will be  departing from Bwindi to Lake Mburo National Park. Have a stop over in Mbarara for Lunch and proceed to Lake Mburo have a game drive while entering the park. Lake Mburo National Park is a savannah park and has marked different fauna to other parks and Reserves, it is the best place in the country to see the gigantic Eland Antelope, as well as Zebra, Top, Impala, and several Acacia associated birds. The five Lakes within the park attract Hippos, Crocodiles, and a variety of water birds, while fringing swamps hide secretive papyrus specialists such as the sitatunga Antelope and red, Black and yellow papyrus Gonalek. Have an evening game drive and overnight at he hotel in the park.

The Ninth and last day after breakfast return to Kampala while birding, Lunch in Masaka town, stops over at the Equator for photos and performs earth’s magnetic pull experiments, overnight stay at the hotel in Kampala.

End of uganda safari

Uganda sprawls across the Equator line that divides Africa into two. The country boasts of 10 beautiful Nationals parks that are located and distribute to offer the best safari in Africa. These places offers wildlife visitors a thrilling opportunity to experience Uganda’s biodiversity not only in the tracks of thorn bushes savannah mingling with antelope, buffalo and Elephant that one tends to associate with the Equatorial East Africa, but with lush expanses of tropical rain forest, lakes and rivers supporting the aquatic life and the glacial peaks of Africa’s tallest Mountain range know as the Mountains of the moon because of its spackling appearances.

Among the 10 Nationals parks is the countries largest protected are of Murchison Falls National Park located in North part of the country ha psalm studded grassland that support the dense population of the lion, buffalo, elephant and Uganda kob, together with the Rothschild giraffe and patas monkey.

Concentration of hippos can be experience and a number of bird specie have been counted here and observed in the early hours of the morning and afternoon during the boat cruise trip along the Nile below a spectacular bottom of the water falls of which the park is named after.

Rwenzori mountains national park is a nether protected are that protects the eastern slopes and glacial peaks of 120km long Rwenzori Mountains of the moon as it’s called. First class world hiking takes place here in the mountain which destination is as significant as it lines with the source of the Nile in Eastern Uganda. This comes all the way from the 150AD during the formation of the Western Rift Valley that raised it to 5,109m above sea level. It supports large tracks of ever green and bamboo forest, while the higher Mooreland zone is known for its other worldly cover of giant heathers, lobelias and groundsels.

Queen Elizabeth National park is set majestically in the shadows of the giatant Rwenzori Mountains and bisected into two parts by Lake Edward and George that forms Kazinga channel. The open savannah offers prime grazing place to the buffalo, elephant, Antelope, that various in number. About 600 different checklists of bird species and a number of giant forest hog and the most attracted climbing lion is found here on the Ishasha sector.

Most of the western is forested, and one of the reserves, Bwindi forest National Park is the best known places for Mountain gorilla tracking, this place also supports other animals in the forest like Forest Elephants, Chimpanzee, monkeys, small antelope and as well as various 25 species of birds, this is also found on the western arm of the rift valley.

Another National park sitting with gorillas just as Bwindi is Mgahinga National park, though the gorillas here keep crossing boarders between Uganda and Rwanda, but it protects the other Uganda portion of the Virungas, an imposing string of the nine freestanding extinct and active volcanoes that runs along the boarders of three…Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.

Along the Albertine rift is the Semuliki National Park, and extension from Congo Ituri rain forest is set at the base of northern Rwenzori Mountain, is of special interest to ornithologists for some 40 Congolese bird species recorded nowhere else in the country. Nearby, is the spectacular semuliki wildlife Reserve, which abuts Lake Albert, stands as one of the best locations for sighting shoe bill.

Kibale Forest National Park, is a primate called park in the country with the highest population of primates with more than 1000 chimpanzees, about 80 strong community has been habituated to visitors to the park as well as half  dozen of readily  observed monkey species, including the aerobatic red colobus and black – white colobus and handsome Lhoest’s monkey.

The closest to Kampala is Lake Mburo National Park which is a centre of series of swamp-fringed lakes known for their rich birdlife, notably the secretive African fin foot. The green acacia woodland surrounding the lake harbors dense populations of zebra, wathog, buffalo, impala, and various other grazers, including the last surviving population of Eland, the largest African antelope.

Mountain Elgon National park located between the boarders of Uganda and Kenya encompasses the 4,321m is an extinct volcano in the world has lush Afro-montane forest, grassland and moorland habitats makes this park a highly rewarding destination for hikers and other natural historical enthusiasts.

Lastly in the far east, the remote wild place and little-visited Kidepo National Park provides refuge to long list of dry country species not found else where in the country, including cheeter and greater Kudu, while its perennial waters attract large numbers of elephant and thousand – strong buffalo herds, especially during dry spelt

Uganda is truly the pearl of Africa and there is no better place to enjoy the enriching Culture, mountain Gorillas and wildlife than Uganda. This packed experience is regarded as the best and exclusive in Africa. The place seemingly has endless things to see, with its Rivers, Lakes, the green Vegetation, culture mostly in the centre of  the country; gorillas and wildlife to the mountainous highest peaks some known as mountains of the moon.

It also boasts of beautiful islands with beaches; larger Islands found on the largest Lake Victoria where the good fish known as tilapia delicious to eat is got.

Its quiet relaxing and most considered friendly country in East Africa. Most of the country is untouched by the holiday making hordes of exclusivity of tourism. Lake Bunyonyi is the most beautiful place to relax in, found in the western part of the country; a crater lake its depth estimated to be 900m deep is more peaceful and bilharzias free. On it there are a number of Islands with their myth interesting stories in their locations.

Its was Speke that brought out the good news when he discovered the source of the Nile in 1862, in a present town Jinja. This source gashed out water that forms the Nile River. Today, visitors are able to explore the country that has come a long way from different wars from 1962 till 1986 when relative peace returned into the country with none ionhardship all this is because of the discovery of the source of the Nile in the early years.

The climatic conditions of the country are supper with rain and sun mixing up to form good weather, the weather conditions that range  from 15ºс – 35ºс and most of the heavy rains are in the month of April and November. In addition, the vegetation in the western part of the country is Forested vegetation and one goes up north and Eastern part, savannah vegetation is experienced and lastly in the north eastern Conner of the country in Moroto Kidepo Valley National park area the place is semi arid, with weather conditions rising to 30ºс – 45ºс

The lasting peace that is existing, is increasingly being experience by people visiting this country, include its beautiful landscape. Your experience is every ones experience