Kidepo Valley National Park

Kidepo Valley National Park

Kidepo 1.442kms in size is among the most spectacular Parks in Uganda, located in the Northeast of the country, bordering Sudan and Kenya, in the Karamoja region. It lies at an altitude ranging between 914 meters and 2.750 meters above sea level. Charter flights can be booked to reach Kidepo from Regional Airlines Airports.

Kidepo Valley National Park Species. The vegetation is dominated by an open Savannah, with dry Mountain Forest and Acacia Forest. The park hosts at least 86 mammal species (Elephants, Zebras, Giraffes, Buffaloes, Bush Pig), including many predators like Black Backed Jackal, African Hunting Dog, Bat‐eared Fox, Cheetah, Caracal, Lions, Leopards. There are 17 Antelope species. The Bird checklist is of 463 species recorded, including 56 Raptors, like Pygmy Falcon, Tawny Eagle, Secretary Bird, Vultures. Etc

Kidepo Valley National Park Activities Attractions: A number of Game Drive loops direct visitors to Wildlife viewing locations in the Narus Valley in the South West of the Park, Karamajong cultural visits, hill climbing and nature walks.

Kibale National Park (KNP) Activities and Attractions

Kibale National Park (KNP)

Located about 350km west of Kampala (about 4.5hour drive). Kibale National Park 766km forms a contiguous block with Queen Elizabeth National Park, on an altitude of 1.100 to 1.590 meters above sea level. The Tropical Rainforest dominates the vegetation.

Kibale National Park Species. At least 60 mammal species are present, including Elephants, Buffaloes, Hippos, Warthog, and Bush pigs, Kibale is well known for Primates, with 13 different species. Particularly, it hosts a large population of Chimpanzees, also there are Vervet, Red‐tailed, Honest and Blue Monkeys, Red Colobus, Black and White Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, olive Baboons. The Bird list records 335 species, of which four are only found here (Nahan's Francolin, Cassin's Spinetail, Blue‐headed Bee Eater and Masked Apalis). Furthermore, more than 250 species of tree have been recorded.

Kibale National Park Activities and Attractions: The main attraction of the Park is the "Chimpanzee Trekking" from Kanyanchu gate. The second main activity is Bird Watching at Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, at Bigodi, a trading centre just outside the Park's boundary; the activity consists of a Guided Walk through the Magombe Swamp, with the possibility of seeing among others the great Blue Turaco and the Papyrus Gonolek. Nature Walks are open in the Park, to see Primates, Birds, and Reptiles, Medicinal plants.

Jinja ‘the adventure capital of Uganda’

Jinja ‘the adventure capital of Uganda’

Jinja is the industrial and tourist heart beat of Uganda with an attractively lush location on the northern shores of lake Victoria above the Ripon falls identified by Speke in 1862 as the source of the Nile but submerged following the construction of the Owen falls dam.

The adventure capital is known for the source of the Nile Africa’s longest river, the seat of the Busoga Kingdom, numerous hotels and resorts, the Nile high bang jumping, white water rafting, Bujagali falls, Bujagali shrine, art centres, plantations and industries.

Activities during the tour expect to visit Mabira forest for forest walk, Ssezibwa Falls and plantations for those interested in agritourism as stopovers. In Jinja you will visit Endowoza Art center, scenic view of Bujagali falls and the source of the Nile, Nile riverboat ride, birding.

Other option activities will include horse riding, Kayaking, Bungee jumping, white water rafting, quad biking, cycling and mountain biking.

Wellcome to The Pearl of Africa Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo +Tailor made and flexible tours across the Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo with a dedicated guides drivers who knows the best places to visit and stay

Wellcome to Uganda , The Pearl of Africa

Tailor made and flexible tours across the Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo with a dedicated guides drivers who knows the best places to visit and stay.

Visit Uganda and Rwanda top tourist attractions with the comfort and experience of Kisoro Tours Uganda dedicated team of experts, always ready and willing to take you an extra mile.

Guaranteed Flexible Group Departure tours

In order for us to be competitive in the market given the current status of the economy, we came up with special group programs with the best low rates ever, These trips will still run at the same price even if there are only 2 people on safari and clients can also have the luxury of their own dates of travel.

Choose from either saloon cars, 4x4’s Mini buses and Landcruisers depending on you destination or size of group.

GORILLA TRACKING: BWINDI IMPENTRABLE NATIONAL PARK

3days 2nights

A day to remember in life time: trekking the Mountain Gorillas

Day 1 cross the Equator, pass villages bananas and tea plantations to Bwindi (9 hours)

Day 2 The day has come: briefing early morning then trek the Gorillas

Day 3 Say bye to the spectacular rainforest head back Kampala

Tariffs: $ 1350pp for 3days, $1540pp for 4days

$1790pp for 5days (minimum 2people)

QUEEN ELIZABETH NATION PARK

3days/2nights

A great weekend popular safari

Day 1 Cross the Equator, lunch en route, great rift valley, enjoy on evening game drive

Day 2 Early morning game drive and afternoon fabulous boat cruise to see hippos, birds, sundowner

Day 3 Track Chimpanzees in Kyambura gorge. Drive back to Kampala

Tariffs: $630pp for 3days, 995 for 4days

(minimum 2people)

MURCHISION FALLS NATIONAL PARK

Ugandan most popular safari

Day 1 Scenic drive to Murchison Falls with a visit to Zziwa Rhino sanctuary, lunch break in Masindi Town

Day 2 Scenic game drive in morning, Enjoy a boat cruise on the placid Victoria Nile, up stream to the base of the Falls, hike to the top of the Falls to see the rainbow created by water plunging 40meters through a 7-meterconyon

Day 3 Return to Kampala with excellent bird watching and primates galore at pabidi forest

Tariffs,$493pp for 2days $765pp for 3day $985pp for 4days (minimum 2people)

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK

A home to 13 types of primates: Chimpanzee Tracking

Day 1 Start from Kampala, the landscape is packed with beautiful crater lakes with tea plantation and tropic forest of Kibale National park.

Day 2 Early morning briefing then track Chips, Kibale forest is a home to 13 types primates including Chimpanzee and Red Colobus and 355 bird species.

Day 3 Drive back to Kampala through beautiful landscape with stopover for lunch in Mubende Town

Tariffs: $497pp for 2day, $782pp for 3day (minimum 2people)

LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK

Game Viewing and Horseback safaris

Day 1 Depart by road to Lake Mburo National Park (the drive will take approximately 3-4 hours). You will have a stopover to look at and stand at the Equator for a photographic opportunity and also listen to some few interesting facts. Continue to Lake Mburo National Park, After checking in at your accommodation and having lunch, you will take a late afternoon boat trip or a dugout canoe.

Day 2 Take an early morning game drive through the park in search of plain game like zebra, hippos, crocodiles, eland, antelope, impala and a variety of birds. You will return to your accommodation for breakfast after go for Horseback safari

Day 3 In the morning after breakfast it’s the park exploration there after we will travel back to Kampala and have lunch there.

Meet The Local People

Meet the local people and spend days with them, have a meal together, visit a schools or a typical African Church Ceremony, or visit one of the projects. Kisoro Tours Uganda supports the local people and we encourage our clients to visit some of our community programs and give them support.

Kisoro Tours Uganda donates $5per client to our community Programs

Kisoro Tours Uganda Community Best Tourism

Kisoro Tours Uganda is working together with Beekeeping projects, coffee farmers, Community local primary schools, Vocational Training Project and Community Based Tourism. This unique combination gives the opportunity to meet the local people of Uganda and visit local tribes. It’s not a treasure to see Uganda without meeting the local people, so shape your safari with local people!

ASK ABOUT OTHER DAY TRIPS

Kampala city tour

Entebbe full day tour

Jinja/Source of the Nile full day tour

Fishing, Birding and Horse Riding full day

Golfing and Tennis

White Water Rafting full day tour

Ssesse Island tour

Bungee Jumping

Equator with Mabamba full day tour

Ngamba Island full day tour

Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary full day tour

LONGER TOUR SUGGESTIONS

3 days Ssesse Island Explore

4 days Bwindi and Queen Elizabeth National park

4 days Gorilla and Chimp Tracking in Rwanda

5 days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari

7 days Uganda wildlife and Chimp Tracking Safari

10 Days Ruwenzori Mountain hiking

10 Day Uganda Birding Safari Bird Watching in Uganda

12 Day Uganda Primate and Wildlife Safari

14 Days Bird Watching and Primate Safari in Uganda

14 Days Uganda Purely Primate and Gorilla Tracking in Uganda

17 Days Discover Uganda

RWANDA Safaris

Rwanda is landlocked Country in Central Africa also known as the land of a thousand hills. Rwanda has five Volcanoes, twenty three lakes and numerous rivers, some forming the Source of the River Nile.

The Country lies 75 miles south of the Equator in the Tropic of Capricon , 880 miles as the crow flies west of the Indian Ocean and 1,250 miles east of the Atlantic Ocean literally in the heat of Africa Rwanda with a land area of 26,33km2,is bordered by Uganda to the North, Tanzania to the East Burundi to the South and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the West.

TOUR SUGGESTIONS IN RWANDA

3 days Gorilla Tracking tour

3 Days Rwanda Chimp Tracking Safaris

4 Days Gorilla and Chimp Tracking in Rwanda

4 Days Gorillas and Golden Monkey Tracking in Rwanda

7 Days Rwanda Chimps and Gorillas

10 Day Experience in Rwanda Tour

3 Day Gorilla Safari +Golden Monkey Tracking Rwanda, Price Budget, Mind Range and Luxury

3 Day Gorilla Safari +Golden Monkey Tracking Rwanda, Price Budget, Mind Range and Luxury

3 Days Rwanda Safari, Gorilla Tracking

On your 3 day Gorilla safari in Rwanda, you will be delighted to visit Volcanoes National Park. Parc National des Volcans has an amazing tourism view; you actually enjoy nature at its best. As you adventure with the gorillas, trekking will be done in the volcanoes adjacent to the border of Rwanda along with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hiking through the lush rainforest in search for gorillas will be existing. Visit Rwanda for an adventurous safari.

Day 1: Kigali City tour and transfer to Volcanoes National park.

From Kanombe airport in Kigali, you will be welcomed by our own guide who will gladly take you for a city tour. On arrival, you will be mesmerized by the natural beauty of Rwanda the land of thousands hills. It’s such a clean city with hospitable people who will be warmly happy to receive you. The first spot that tourists visit when on a city tour in Rwanda is the genocide memorial museum; it has information about how this war started. You continue visiting the national museum and other attractive sites in the city. You will enjoy an adventurous drive through the terraced hills as you access the Volcanoes National Park. It’s a famous home for the great mountain gorillas. Our Accommodation ranges from luxury, moderate as well as budget, whichever you decide to choose, you will enjoy a comfortable stay in the wilderness. Dinner and overnight.

Luxury Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

Moderate Accommodation: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

Budget Accommodation: Muhabura Hotel/Kinigi Guest House

Day 2: Gorilla tracking and afternoon Nature walk/Cultural walk.

Have a lovely breakfast in the morning and proceed to the headquarters for briefing about the gorillas and meeting the park rangers. The experience is exhilarating as you get ready to hike through the jungle in search for the gorillas. Some level of physical fitness is required as you head out to track the gorillas; this is because you ought climb the hills in order to catch a glance at them. The experience is tiresome but amazing when you confront the great mountain gorillas. You will see them in groups as they do their daily routine work, mothers feeding their young ones, playing, feeding and some resting.

The local people will be happy to entertain you and get more information about their lives. After a wonderful evening, you return to your lodge for dinner and rest.

Luxury Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

Moderate Accommodation: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

Budget Accommodation: Muhabura Hotel/Kinigi Guest House

Day 3: Golden Monkey tracking and transfer back to Kigali.

Have breakfast early morning and proceed for golden monkey tracking, this is another existing moment. Prior to meeting the golden monkeys, you will see other primates, fauna and flora.

Finally get face to face with the beautiful golden monkeys. You will see them play as they jump from one branch of tree to the other; all this will be amazing and memorable for your safari. Drive back to Kigali and if you still have time, you can visit some craft shops and buy for yourself a souvenir. Continue to the airport for your flight and say farewell to Rwanda.

COST PER PERSON SHARING

Budget USD, 1345 per person

Midrange USD, 1455 per person

Luxury USD, 1571 per person

Exploring DR Congo with Kisoro Tours Uganda

Exploring DR Congo with Kisoro Tours Uganda

Rich in natural resources and staggering beauty, the Congo’s recent history has been a long and tragic struggle that in many ways can be traced back to that first exploratory river journey made by Stanley back in 1874.

Known as Zaire until 1997, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s third largest country. The country had been the private kingdom of the Belgium King Leopold II for over 20 years, before pressure from other European powers, in particular Great Britain, forced the Belgian parliament to declare the territory a Belgium colony in 1908. European involvement in the Congo was largely one of brutality and exploitation and in 1960 a growing nationalist movement under Patrice Lumumba gained independence, paving the way for what many hoped would be a democratic future for the old Belgian colony.

Independence however was followed by internal struggle and civil unrest, until a 1965 coup saw Mobuto Sese Seko seize power. Decades of corruption and political repression then saw Mobuto himself overthrown in 1997, but only for the Congolese to see their country enter a protracted conflict involving neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda.

Today the Congo still has plenty of problems. However there are areas, particularly running along the banks and tributaries of the mighty Mountain Gorillas, Lowland Gorillas, face the active lava of Nyiragongo, Congo River to mention few that offer the adventurous traveller some true off-the-beaten-track encounters. As usual Kisoro Tours Uganda are trail-blazing hot these new routes.

MOUNTIAN GORILLA GUIDELINES WHILE TRACKING GORILLAS IN UGANDA

MOUNTIAN GORILLA GUIDELINES WHILE TRACKING GORILLAS IN UGANDA

Rules and guidelines while tracking mountain gorillas have been carefully developed to try to protect the mountain gorillas’ health and safety. As mentioned previous, Gorillas are extremely susceptible to human diseases and infections, and become stressed if too many visitors arrive or approach too closely. Remember that they are wild individuals, and very protective of their young. To remain healthy and survive these apes need to be undisturbed by visitors, and allowed to eat, rest and socialize with their own species.

If a tourist is ill, the park Staff have the right to refuse a visit to gorillas.

WHY: To protect the great Apes from contracting an illness or disease. Only one visit is allowed per day and the number of tourists is limited to eight per group.

WHY: To minimize behavioural disturbance, stress and possible risk of infection,Visitors must be at least fifteen years old.

WHY: To minimize risk of exposing Gorillas to childhood diseases (e.g. Mumps, Chickenpox Measles) and cold or Flu viruses.

The time spent with great Apes is limited to one hour.

WHY: To minimize behavioural disturbance, stress and possible risk of infection,Flash photographic is not permitted.

WHY: It can upset or frighten Gorillas and may provoke an aggressive reaction or charge.

All visitors must remain at least seven meters away from Gorillas at times. If the great apes approach to two or three meters (as curious juveniles sometimes do), then visitors should slowly retreat back to five meters. If this is not possible, then the visitors will be asked to remain where they are. The guide’s instructions should be followed at all times. Keep your backpack and other items in places where young Gorillas can’t approach and investigate them.

WHY: To minimize disease transmission, stress and behavioural disturbance, to reduce the chance of possible future aggression towards tourists; and to prevent the Gorillas becoming too habituated to humans.

Tourists should remain in a tight group, without spreading out or surrounding the great apes.

WHY: This allows the apes plenty of room to move where they want to, without felling threatened (which may provoke a charge).

Where possible, visitors should sit or crouch whilst watching the Gorillas.

WHY: It can be very intimidating or threatening to Gorillas if you stand taller than they are, and stare. Standing biped ally is part of the great apes’ threat or aggressive displays. Body language is important , and visitors should not raise hands or arms, or point, nor stare at them.

WHY: To gorillas there behaviours are signs of threat or aggression. Visitors should not clear vegetation close to Gorillas so that they get a better view.

WHY: This can disturb or frighten the Gorillas. The guides will clear away vegetation, if it is possible and necessary If a silverback gorilla beat his chest, displays or charges at you, do not run away. Tourist guides are asked to stop tourists from moving or running.

WHY: Although a charge may be frightening, the safest thing to do is remain quietly where you are.

Eating, drinking and smoking are not permitted near the Gorillas, nor within 200 meters of them.

WHY: The behaviours could distract them and cause problems if they approach out of curiosity. Food and other remains can be a source of infection.

Visitors should be as quiet as possible, and whisper. If bitten by Safari ants or struck by stinging nettle, do not scream.

WHY: To minimize behavioural disturbance and avoid frightening and avoid frightening gorillas. Newly habituated gorillas may be afraid to come anywhere near noisy tourists, and if gorillas are already present, they may leave.

If you, the tourist, need to sneeze or cough, turn away from the great apes and try to cover your nose and mouth.

WHY: To minimize the spread of airborne bacteria or viruses that you might unknowingly be carrying.

All faucal materials must be buried. A machete may be borrowed from guides, a thirty centimetre (ten inch) hole dug and then the hole filled.

WHY: Fasces can be highly infectious to great apes and other animals.All rubbish must be removed from the park, and visitors are asked to be particularly careful not to drop small items, such as, film boxes / canisters, tissues or handkerchiefs.

WHY: Apart from being unsightly, rubbish can interest animals, can cause problems if swallowed, and can be a source of germ or disease transmission.