DESTINATION HIGHLIGHTS

KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK

Offering some of the most stunning scenery of any protected area in Uganda, Kidepo Valley National Park is hidden away in a lost valley in the extreme northeast of Uganda some 700km from Kampala. There is an option for flights to/from Entebbe Airport and connecting flights to/from other Parks. The rolling, short-grass savannah of the 1,442-sq-km national park is ringed by mountains and cut by rocky ridges.

Although it is the most isolated, it is a magnificent Park most notable for harbouring several animals found nowhere else in Uganda, including cheetahs, bat-eared foxes, aardwolves, caracals and greater and lesser kudus. It has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as around 475 bird species. The park has two rivers – Kidepo and Narus – which disappear in the dry season, leaving sporadic pools to sustain wildlife – and the park's prime game viewing location.

Other activities:

• Trekking

• Cultural tours – The pastoral Karamojong people, similar to the Maasai of Kenya, and the IK, a hunter-gatherer tribe whose survival is threatened.

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