It was last year when we planned to visit Uganda and as we were not financially stable we decided to take camping safari than stay in lodge safari, our safari started with Kidepo National Park and we spent 3 nights in this park as it has much to offer that we wanted to discover all and we did so, this park has got variety of wildlife and also visit to the Karamajong cultural groups like the Manyatta, Ik, Geers and Pokot. With our 4×4 Car Rental in Uganda and the professional guide we had 3 consecutive game drive viewing and good photo shoots and videos were taken.
Then our stay at the Uganda Wildlife Authority Banda’s, and us and our guide Alex we prepared for our dinner and later back to our Banda’s. After being filled with all what Kidepo offers we continued to Murchison Falls National Park, and upon arrival we stayed at the Fort Murchison Camp, and this lodge is quite strategically stationed near the park so connecting to do our game drives was so convenient as it took us like 40 minutes into the park and start searching for the wildlife species. Later, we had our lunch near the shores of the shores of the River Nile, and after we took the amazing boat cruise along the River Nile towards the bottom of the falls and then when we reached at the end of the boat, we jumped off the boat and hike the top of the falls and upon our arrival at the top our guide with the car had already crossed with the ferry to meet us at the top and drive us back via the ferry to return to the lodge.
More so for clients that would not like stay at the lodge we stayed there is also other amazing camping places in the Murchison Falls National Park, like the camping near the shores of the River Nile at the delta side and this, the park management provide you with the security officers to protect you from wildlife and camp fire is set too at the camp. You can also opt to stay at Red Chill Camp, Yebo Camp, and Murchison River Lodge Camp among others.
Thereafter, we spent one night extra at the Budongo Forest and here we stayed at the Bomu Women Camp and this is locally home stay place that we loved much while on our safari, here you can practice in activities locally and then on our following day we experienced the chimpanzee trekking and the fee is $ 90 USD per person, and as this is an Eco Tourism destination much primates, birds, butterflies and plants species we experienced and after we embarked our safari jeep and continued to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and stayed in hostels and the meals here are local but so delicious!
After having visited the re-introduced white Rhinos, drove to the Fort Portal town and here we stayed again budget at the Raja Hotel, and then the following day we visited to Semliki National Park for the hot springs and also we experienced the night game drive that is much done in this national park having this experience we had to return to Entebbe for one more night and then visit to the Mabamba wetland for the search of the shoe bill and then in the evening embarked the flight back home and I highly recommend this saving type of travel in Uganda.