Item Code: 66-1270

Kidepo Valley National Park Covers 1,442km2, and the park’s altitude ranges between 914m and 2,750m above sea level.

The park contains two rivers – Kidepo and Narus – which disappear in the dry season, leaving just pools for the wildlife.

The local communities around the park include pastoral Karamojong people, similar to the Maasai of Kenya, and the IK, a hunter-gatherer tribe whose survival is threatened. The IK are believed to be the indigenous occupants of this region of Uganda before the coming of other tribes.

Kidepo Valley National Park lies in the rugged, semi-arid valleys between Uganda’s borders with Sudan and Kenya, some 700km from Kampala. Gazetted as a national park in 1962, it has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as around 475 bird species.

Kidepo is Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the few who make the long journey north through the wild frontline region of Karamoja would agree that it is also the most magnificent, for Kidepo ranks among Africa’s premium wildernesses. From Apoka, in the heart of the park, a savannah landscape extends far beyond the gazetted area, towards horizons outlined by distant mountain ranges.

During the dry season, the only permanent water in the park is found in wetlands and remnant pools in the broad Narus Valley near Apoka. These seasonal oases, combined with the open, savannah terrain, make the Narus Valley the park’s prime game viewing location (UWA, 2018).

 

 

What is included:

  • Transportation
  • 3 nights’ Accommodation in Kidepo Valley National Park and 2 nights’ Accommodation in Kampala or Entebbe
  • Entrance fees
  • Game Drives
  • English Speaking Driver/Guide
  • All meals excluding drinks during the tour

What is excluded:

  • International air transport
  • Visa fees
  • Insurance
  • Optional Extras
  • All drinks not mentioned above
  • Tips and Personal shopping

Optional Extras:

  • Ndere Center Cultural Performances
  • Visit to the Karimojong and IK communities
  • Visit to the Source of the Mighty River Nile
  • Shopping at the Buganda Road Crafts Village
  • Mabamba Swamp Shoebill Stork expedition
  • Kampala City Tour

 

Details

Day 1

Transfer to the Hotel in Kampala/Entebbe

Day 2nd

Drive to Mbale Town Via the Source of River Nile

Day 3rd

Hike Sipi Falls in Kapchorwa and drive to Soroti

Day 4

Drive to Kidepo Valley National Park

Day 5

Game drive in Kidepo Valley National Park

Day 6

Game drive to the hot springs in Kidepo

Day 7

Drive to Kampala/Entebbe

Day 8

Transfer to Entebbe International Airport