Popular Adventure Activities you can do on a Self-drive in Uganda
Opt for self-drive adventure safari in Uganda, the alternative has become extremely popular and possible for many adventurous travelers wishing for a private trip. Great there has been high improvements in the road infrastructures and signage making it easy to access any destination opt for.
Looking for a car hire agencies, we don’t end on hiring car services but also give advisory tips to our clients concerning different matters, and now we as selfdrive4x4 Uganda Ltd we bring popular adventures safaris that you can consider when planning a selfdrive trip in the country.
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Inquire from car Rental Company the best car deal you would like to use, we offer variety of car rental services ranging budget, midrange and luxurious travelers offering comfortable and in good condition 4x4WD tourist vehicle. Just make it a complete inquire with all camping tools it’s our pleasure to meet and service to your tailored requests. The car hire period is 24 hours and unlimited mileage in arrangements with your trip requirements which may include; GPS, map, spar tyre.
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Popular safaris and activities
Traveling in Uganda for safari adventure is among the world’s most rewarding safari destinations with numbers of adventure safaris some note even found elsewhere in world. Seated behind of your 4×4 selfdrive safari vehicle below is the list of different safari activities and destination from which you can choose to explore on your self-drive.
Gorilla tours
This is the highlight of all African safaris in Africa, here you drive southwest of Uganda about 8/9 hour drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to trek the world most endangered species. Trekking the mountain is an amazing and the most popular activity in Uganda as it involves walking through the thick jungle in search for mountain gorillas. The activity takes about one to eight hours looking for the giants is more challenging and tiresome search however, summit on a face to face with gorillas is a lifetime experience as you have an hour in their presence.
Mountain Gorillas in the forest
Uganda has more than half of the world mountain gorillas in the two parks of Bwind Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park with about 19 habituated gorilla families makes Uganda offering more trekking opportunities than any other gorilla destinations.
Game drive
Game drive is one of the most rewarding safari activities in Uganda, seated behind the wheels in your 4×4 selfdrive tourist vehicle there opportunities of viewing a wider range of wild inhabitants in an open Savannah parks. sighting the big five for which in summary the five Savannah national parks including Murchison falls national park, Queen elizabeth national park, Lake Mburo national park, Kidepo valley national park and Semuliki are sightings for the big four including elephants, leopards, lions and buffalo. And rhinos can be located at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary along Kampala Gulu road, there several of wildlife catches on your selfdrive on need to just to settle for more game sightings.
Chimpanzee tracking
Beside Mgahinga and Bwindi Uganda’s gorilla parks, Uganda’s Kibale National park is the world’s primate capital with 13 different primate species and Chimpanzee tracking highlights the park activities, the best destination in Uganda to track Chimpanzees in their natural home. As well Chimpanzees in Uganda can be tracked from Budongo forest in Masindi your way to Murchison falls national park gives the same one hour experience in the presence of chimpanzees
Mountain climbing
The Rwenzori Mountain also known as the mountain of the moon rewards with world first class hiking experience. Reaching the snow caped magharita peak the 3rd tallest range in Africa after Kilimanjalo and Mount Kenya respectively is spectacular. Trekking Mount Rwenzori you experience different climatic ranging from alpine, montane, bamboo, tropical and savannah.
Mount Elgon hike taking you to the highest altitude and the hike can take about 5-17 days. Depending on which mountain range trekked trekking to the tallest peak takes about 7/15 days.
White water rafting
This is a lifetime experience not ever to miss on your adventure trip in Uganda adventure safari list. Rafting up to grade 5 for advanced rafters, the beautiful rivers that Nile with super wander rapid water falls, rafting is accompanied by other adventurous you can do in particular on your safari to Jinja the adventure capital including; Kayaking Joining prince Williams of Great Britain kayakers who kayaked in 2015, speed boat.
Bungee jumping-your adventurous activity
Bungee jumping this adventurous activity that bring the whole body in use as you facing gravitation with the head leading. The standards at which high bungee jumping was built is a 5 stars and was made to that of Australia standards, operated by professions to ensure the safety of jumpers. Nile high campis the only bungee jumping service providers with the best technologies to ensure comfort ability and softness as jumpers surrender their whole body suspending jumping ropes.
Boat launch
Boat launch is of the rewarding safari activities done on Lake Victoria, river Nile, Lake Gorge and many other destinations. On a boat cruise sailing leads to viewing a number water animals and concentration of many other animals gathering to draw water at river banks.
Boat cruise in Uganda safari parks is done in three parks of Murchison falls national park, Queen Elizabeth national park and Lake Mburo national park. Boat launch at the Nile Rver leads to the source of the longest world river and the long boat ride from Entebbe to Jinja rewards with wide scenic view of different islands on the Africa largest lake.
Bird watching
Bird watching is among the trending tourist activities in Uganda, Uganda in 2016 hosted the world birding expo at one of the beautiful Botanical beach at Entebbe due to its fantastic flora. Uganda is home to over 1030 different bird species where some are seasonal and much of the species inhabit here and with species birder guide you can catch a good number of bird species on a sight. Due wide range of Uganda forests, Savannah and several water bodies makes Uganda genuine and birders catching destination.
Uganda birders safari crossover the all country starting from the central covering the rest of the regions. Topping the birders destinations in Uganda Queen Elizabeth National Park has the highest number of 600 bird species, Murchison falls national park has about 450 different bird species, semuliki national park the birders heaven with over 300 bird species and traveling to any of parks in Uganda be expectant of spotting a number of bird species.