Safari To Kidepo Valley
ACCOMMODATION AT Apoka Lodge or UWA Banda Facilities
Day 1
Kampala – Kidepo Valley National Park.
Your driver/guide will pick you from Kampala at 6.00am.You will start the drive to Kidepo Valley National Park with lunch en route at Gulu town Continue to drive past Kitgum town and settle at Uwa bandas for diner and overnight .Thus, the tour activities at the park begin the next day. Alternatively will have Dinner and overnight either at Apoka Lodge for the luxury accommodation, National Park Bandas for the mid range and Kakine Campsite for basic accommodation.
Day 2
Kidepo Valley National Park.
Morning after breakfast do a game drive. You will most likely be able to view those animals that are unique to the African Savannah like giraffe, antelope, lion, elephant, hyena, buffalo and the Uganda Kob.. The splendid Kidepo river valley dominated by borassus palm forest, startling savanna landscape and the stunning view of the Narus valley situated in the southwest of the park. To the north of Sudan at the Lotukei Mountains and the Morongole range which marks the southern boundary of the park and ending the trail at the Kanangorok hot spring with a view of a number of faunas that can be seen wandering around like the tall Ostrich. After will be driven back to Park bandas for lunch and resting
After lunch will take on another game drive in the evening exploring different wildlife in the area. Seeing heards of buffaloes, elephants and a variety of birds like ostrich herons, Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at your facility.
Day 3
Kidepo Valley National Park.
Morning and evening game drive in the park exploring different wildlife in the area. The game drive will give you chances for bird watching having a chance to see some of the rear bird and animal species like the cheetah and hunting dog, bat-eared fox and stripped hyena. The less common ungulates include klipspringer, dikdik and bride gazelle. Other large ungulates include zebras, Rothschild’s giraffes; antelope species you could encounter include roan antelope, bush buck, eland, and bohor reed buck and jackson hartebees buffaloes, elands, bushbucks, waterbucks, elephants and the jackal, among many others. Birds like the Karamoja apalis and the black breasted barbets, black-headed plover, black-bellied bustard, common buttonquail and flappet larks, harriers, red-winged lark, northern red bishops and white-winged widowbird among others.
See herds of buffaloes, elephants and a variety of birds like ostrich herons, Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at your facility
Day 4
Kidepo Valley National Park – Kampala.
Morning will be driven back to Kampala. After stop for lunch on the way and proceed . Arrival will be in the evening. END OF SAFARI:
Please Note the safari cost will include:
- Meals and accommodation at full board
- Full time safari driver /guide
- Park fees, , game drives
- Applicable government taxes
- Drinking bottled water while driving on safari
Excluded are:
- Beverages and bar bills, phone calls, personal insurance and any other services of personal nature like souvenirs, tips, laundry etc
