Kidepo National Park
Kidepo National Park also known as Africa’s prime Savannah Destination with a vast wilderness is located in the remote North Eastern Part of Uganda. The Park is known for inhabiting many wildlife animals, rare species of birds i.e the Black-breasted Barbet and Karamoja Apallis in the Narus Valley. The Park has very many plains at a distance.
Activities at Kidepo National Park
Bird watching
Bird watching is very exceptional to do at Kidepo National Park as the park inhabits very many bird species that are fond of flying from one place to another around the park. The Birds you watch here include; Vinaceous Dove, Hoopoe, Nubian Woodpecker, Mosque Swallow, Ruppell’s and Superb Starlings, Scarlet chested Sunbird, Little Weaver and Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, clapperton’s Francolin, Black Coucal, African Moustached, Broad tailed Warblers, Marsh Tchagra and Crimson rumped Waxbill.
Game drives
Game Drives are the most prominent safari to do in the park and these are done using 4×4 vehicles in company of a skilled park ranger guide who leads you to various tracks in the park watching wildlife wander around their natural vegetation habitat. The wildlife animals you watch here include; the bushbuck, bush pig, ostrich, leopard, elephants, bush duiker, jackal, buffalo, etc. These are watched in the Narus Valley.
Hiking and Nature walks
Hiking and Nature Walks in Kidepo National Park are exciting as you transfer with a skilled park ranger to the Lomej Mountains proceed via the Narus Valley. En-route you encounter the local people of the IK Tribe that stay in the Morungole Mountains which are outside the park. En-route you view the beautiful River Valley along the borders of the borassus palm forest
Cultural Encounters
Kidepo National Park offers unique Cultural Encounters as you visit the local communities as you engage in Music, Dance and Drama. The Local people take you through many traditional dances and some of these include; the Emuya of the Nyangia, Naporre ethnic groups with Larakaraka and Apiti dances which are usually presented by the natives of Acholi land.