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Uganda - Africa's Top Favorite Destination

Uganda has once again become an outpost to many travelers taking their safaris to Africa. With unique tourist attractions and improving tourist facilities, travelers have returned in ever-increasing numbers to enjoy Uganda's stunning landscape, green rolling hills, lush rain forests, snowcapped mountains, majestic rivers and massive lakes—and its fascinating wildlife, including about half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas. Uganda has become one of Africa's major tourist destination in the past 10 years. Bordered to the west by the Rwenzori Mountains, named a World Heritage Site for their eerie, craggy tips and giant vegetation, and the majestic Virunga volcanoes rise along the southwestern border with Rwanda, Uganda is one of Africa's top favorite destinations. First proclaimed the Pearl of Africa by Sir Winston Churchill in 1903, Uganda is the source of the Nile that empties out of Lake Victoria—the world's second-largest lake—at Jinja. The country is hom...