KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK

The 1,442 km² Kidepo Valley National Park is tucked away into the corner of Uganda's border with Sudan and Kenya approx. 700 kms from Kampala. Transected by Rivers Kidepo and Narus and well fed with ample rainfall, Kidepo is an oasis in the semi-desert; unsurpassed scenery, dense Acacia geradi forest along Lorupei River and breathtaking savannah landscapes dominated by Mt. Morungole (2750m).

The park’s extremely diverse flora and fauna includes over 500 species of birds and over 80 mammals species, (28 of which do not occur anywhere else in Ugandan), including the bat-eared fox, striped hyena, cheetah and leopard, aardwolf, caracal, hunting dogs, elephants, zebra, bush pigs, warthog, rothschild giraffe, buffalo, eland, bushbuck, bush duskier, defassa water buck, bohor reed buck, jackson's hartbeest and oribi as well as tree climbing lions; game viewing could never be better. Less common residents include the greater and lesser kudu, Chandlers Mountain reedbuck, klipspringer, etc.