Uganda
Queen Elizabeth National Park
The boat safari that ruins other boat safaris.
The gorillas are why you come. These are the reasons people stay two weeks instead of three days — the Nile at Murchison, chimpanzees in Kibale, tree-climbing lions at Ishasha, rhino on foot at Ziwa, and a lake at the end of it where you can actually swim.
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Nine parks and places across Uganda
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Murchison Falls National Park
The whole Nile through a seven-metre gap.
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Kibale Forest National Park
The best chimpanzee tracking in Africa.
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Lake Mburo National Park
The park you can walk in.
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Kidepo Valley National Park
The emptiest place in Uganda.
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Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
The only wild rhino in the country.
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Lake Bunyonyi
The place of many little birds.
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Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Glaciers, thirty kilometres from the equator.
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Three more, within a morning of Kigali
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Nyungwe Forest National Park
One of the oldest rainforests in Africa.
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Akagera National Park
A conservation recovery you can drive through.
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Lake Kivu
The shoreline that connects the gorillas to the chimpanzees.
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Kigali
Give it a day; most people wish they had given it two.
Also
The gorilla parks themselves
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park — around half the world's mountain gorillas, across four sectors
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park — one family, three volcanoes, golden monkeys and the Batwa Trail
- Volcanoes National Park — twelve habituated families two hours from Kigali
- Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega — the DR Congo, access permitting