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Kidepo Valley National Park, Things to do and see – Accommodation

Kidepo Valley National park, also managed by Uganda Wildlife Authority was gazetted as a game reserve in 1958 and later became a national park in 1962. It is 1,442 km2 and ranges from 900 to 2.750 m in altitude.

Kidepo Valley national park is the most wild of all the national parks in Uganda with breath taking savannah landscapes and endless views of the horizon. It is one of the less visited national parks in Uganda and so you experience the feeling of having the whole national park by yourself. On guided game drives, you will see many elephants, giraffes, buffalos, lions, baboons, and a variety of antelopes, warthogs, jackals and countless savannah birds. It is the only national park in Uganda where you can see cheetahs. The park has the largest buffalo population with a herd of about 1,700 buffalos, not recorded any where else on earth. You may also go for bird watching, a guided walking safari and a nocturnal game drive.

There are different types of accommodation for each traveller from high end to budget accommodations and camping is also available for the more adventurous ones.

A Uganda safari to this scenic park is a must. It is a long distance from Kampala to Kidepo but our safaris to Kidepo have a stopover in Gulu or Kitgum to breakdown the journey and you can also fly-into Kidepo Valley National park for an experience that should not be missed.

For a traveller who loves getting off the ‘tourist track’, then you should not miss visiting Kidepo Valley National park on your Uganda Safari

From Kidepo Valley National park, you can easily connect to Murchison falls national park, Uganda’s biggest conservation area named after the famous Murchison falls. Safari For All has designed Uganda wildlife safaris that combine these two national parks and if you are interested, contact us.

Because of its uniqueness and spectacular wilderness, Kidepo Valley National Park was recently rated 3rd-bes

Will the Rothschild’s giraffe survive?

When it comes to rare mammal species in Uganda, almost immediately the mountain gorilla is mentioned. But in Uganda, with its abundant flora and fauna, lives an even rarer mammal: the Rothschild’s giraffe (also called Uganda giraffe or Baringo giraffe). Today (September 2015), the total number of wild individuals is estimated at around 840 individuals, spread across 13 populations in Uganda and Kenya (in South Sudan, the species is already extinct). This makes the Rothschild’s giraffe one of the rarest mammals in the world. To compare: although still in the danger zone, today more than 900 mountain gorillas inhabit again the afromontane forests of Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo.

Since 2007 the Rothschild’s giraffe is recognized as a species and not as a subspecies. In 2012 the Rothschild’s giraffe was listed endangered by IUCN. If no immediate action is taken, the Rothschild’s giraffe will extinct in the near future. Extra bitter is the fact that there are almost as much of these beautiful animals in zoos around the world as there are in the wild.

Distribution in Africa

Originally the Rothschild’s giraffe inhabited the region from the Rift Valley of west-central Kenya across Uganda to the Nile River and northward into southern South Sudan.
Nowadays, the Rothschild’s giraffe occurs in the wild only in Uganda while in Kenya small, reintroduced populations occur in mutually isolated, fenced areas, including Lake Nakuru National Park. In connection with inbreeding mixing is required between the Kenyan populations, but unfortunately not possible.

The drastic decline of the Rothschild’s giraffe population began in the sixties and seventies of the last century during the civil war. From about 2000 individuals around 1960, the population dropped to about 200 individuals in 1999. Today the greatest threats are the massive human population growth, habitat encroachment, segregation of giraffe populations, severe poaching and human-wildl

LAKE VICTORIA

In and around the Lake

Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the chief reservoir of the White Nile. Its waters fill a shallow depression in the centre of the great plateau that stretches between the Western and Eastern Rift Valleys. Among the freshwater lakes of the world it is exceeded in size only by Lake Superior in North America.



The search by Europeans for the source of the Nile led to the sighting of the lake by the British explorer John Speke in 1858. Formerly known to the Arabs as Ukerewe, the lake was named by Speke in honor of Queen Victoria of England. Though other headwaters in the mountains of Rwanda and Burundi are being researched, the mighty Lake Victoria is still seen by many to be the source of the Nile.

Waters from the large lake leave via the Victoria Nile to head north to join the Albert Nile in northern Uganda to become the full White Nile.

What to do

The lake also offers plenty of tourist activities. You can visit the source of the Nile in Jinja, visit one of the Ssese islands, feed the chimpanzees at Ngamba Island or relax at one of the fine resorts which are located on islands or peninsula’s in Lake Victoria. Of course you might also consider a fishing trip on the lake in search of the giant Nile Perch! Lake Victoria has more than 200 species of fish, of which the Tilapia is the most economically important. Safari For All