Queen Elisabeth National ParkWhat used to be one of the richest parks in East Africa in terms of wildlife lost a large amount of its wildlife wealth to the civil war fighting. In recent years, the Queen Elizabeth National Park, with its 2,000 square kilometres of cacti, savannas, forests, rivers and lakes, has been recovering some of its lost animal wealth. |
Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkIn the southwest of Uganda, along the boundary with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, or Zaire), lies the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Covering an area of 331 square kilometres, this park is one of the largest natural forests in East Africa. |
Kibale Forest National ParkThe Kibale Forest Primate Reserve contains vast tracts of equatorial rainforests. This park contains the world's highest concentration of primates in the world. Located 35 kilometres south of Fort Portal, it also shelters Uganda's third largest population of elephants. |
Kidepo Valley National ParkLocated in the extreme North of the country bordering with Sudan and Kenya, Kidepo Valley National Park covers an area of 1,344 sq. km. Due to it's remote location this park is less visited, but it has the most spectacular scenery of mountains and vast savannah landscapes. |
Lake Mburo National ParkLake Mburo National Park covers an area of 260 sq km and is located 420kms south west of Kampala. It is one of the more popular parks, due to its relatively close location to Kampala, being particularly busy with city weekend visitors. |
Mgahinga Gorilla National ParkUganda's smallest park, covering an area of just 34 sq kms, located on the south western tip of the country on the border with Congo (Zaire) and Rwanda, 510km from Kampala. |
Mount Elgon National Park256 km. north west of Kampala, situated on the border with Kenya in eastern Uganda, Mt. Elgon covers an area of 1155 sq. kms. If offers a diverse variety of scenery, vegetation and cultures. Mt. Elgon is an extinct volcano with a gradual slopes to the crater rim, lying at 4,321 meters above seal level. |
Ruwenzori Mountains National ParkThe Ruwenzori National Park, established in 1993, is 120 kilometres long and 43 kilometres wide and covers a fantastic icy world and afro-alpine vegetation created by the Ruwenzori mountains. Mount Stanley, which at 5109m above sea level is the third highest mountain in the continent, |
Murchison Falls National ParkThe Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda's largest National Park. A major safari attraction in the 1950s and 1960s when tourism was booming, this park and its animals have been through hard times. But they are now recovering. A large number of animals like buffaloes, Rothschild-giraffes and elephants |