The Hidden Gem- Kidepo Valley Park
Kidepo Valley Park where the stunning scenery simply takes your breath away is believed to be Africa’s third wilderness park according to the CNN and the only park in Uganda where the tourist can see the cheetah.
While in the park, it is just you and a stillness only broken by the cry from the wild and the sounds of the winds sweeping through the valley.You will be amazed by Kidepo Valley Park due to the abundance of wildlife, the rough-hewn scenery and an absence of people, no caravans of vehicles meandering down the game tracks- it is simply a scene from Karen Blixen or Ernest Hemingway’s Africa – it is the Africa as you imagined it but rarely find in the 21st Century.
The Park is home to many lions especially during the dry season of the year (even some tree climbing ones), Elephant, Buffalo herds roaming, Giraffe, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, ostriches-pangolins, the bat eared fox, striped hyena, aardwolf, caracal, and hunting dog – antelopes such as eland, bush buck, bush duskier, defassa water buck, bohor reed buck, jackson’s hartebeest and oribi.
In Kidepo Valley Park though very remote, you will encounter most of the wildlife making it the best all-around wildlife Park in Uganda. Though few people visit the park due to the long distance to the park, those that do rave about their Safari Experience in this remote Park.Unlike other parks in East Africa, Kidepo Valley Park in Uganda is where you can experience Africa as it was 50 years ago, making it an amazing fun and memorable experience.The Karamoja region of Uganda is very remote and is still undiscovered, we are always on the lookout for new experiences in the park and beyond that the experiential African Traveler might enjoy including the new Rock paintings near Moroto.
