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 home to more than 1,000 species of birds, making Uganda one of the richest birding destinations in Africa, and its richly varied savannah wildlife—large herds of elephant, tree-climbing lions, snorting buffalo and peering giraffe all make Uganda a wonderland destination in Africa. Uganda is also a favourite to primate seekers! The country is home to more than half of the remaining 700 mountain gorillas in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, complemented by one of the highest density of chimpanzees in Kibale Forest National Park, Kaniyo Pabidi and Semuliki Forest National Park. Other primates in high concentration include both diurnal and nocturnal primates species that include pottos, galagos, bush babies etc.

With this Uganda has become famous for gorilla safaris, chimpanzee tours, wildlife safaris, mountaineering tours among others. Bwindi National Park, is the country's premier gorilla-tracking destination and the hottest tourist destination. Other safari parks visited by many tourists include Murchison Falls National Park the most loveliest, Queen Elizabeth National Park, the highest biodiversity conservation area in Africa and probably in the world, Lake Mburo National Park, Kidepo Valley National Park etc. Though Uganda experienced several political instabilities during the 1970s, in the past 20 years Uganda has once again regained much of its luster and it has been re branded the "Land Gifted by Nature".