Jungle Safaris Uganda

15/01/2020

28/06/2019

Cost sharing is the major benefit of a group tour. Before you join a group tour, consider group leadership, size, itineraries, age, reviews, communication or weather.

30/11/2018

The Batwa also known as the Twa in Rwanda are an indigenous group of people who originally lived in the ancient Bwindi forest in Uganda until it was gazetted as a National park in 1991. The Batwa lived in harmony in the jungle with all creatures including the mountain gorillas. The Batwa were regarded as the Keepers of the forest. Some anthropologists say that most pygmy tribes such as the Batwa/the Twa have existed for more than 60,000 years in the equatorial forests.

02/07/2018

Lake Albert is located between the Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo in Western Uganda and is the most northern of the lakes in the in the Albertine Rift which straddles parts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.

Lake Albert was so named in 1864 by European explorers Samuel Baker and Sass Flóra when they "discovered it" and named it in honour Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert who had died three years previously.

It was briefly renamed as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko after by President Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga of the Congo (President 24 November 1965 – 16 May 1997) before reverting to its widely known name and is Africa's seventh largest lake measuring some 100 miles long and 19 miles wide with a maximum depth of 168 feet.

18/06/2018

Ngamba Island is a project of the Chimpanzees Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust (CSWCT), established in 1997 and it provides a home for over 40 orphaned chimpanzees to live out their lives, since a return to their natural habitat is not possible, while educating visitors and local communities about their remarkable species and the importance of conserving their fragile forest habitat.

Ngamba Island consists of approximately 100 acres, 98 of which are forested and separated from the visitors area by an electric fence where the chimpanzees roam through the day.

18/06/2018

Kitagata Hot Springs are natural hot springs in the Western Region of Uganda. The springs are believed to have natural healing powers.

08/06/2018

KABAKA'S LAKE IN KAMPALA: It was dug on orders of Kabaka (king) Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa of Buganda Kingdom in 1886.

25/05/2018

Situated about one and half hours’ drive west of Kinshasa, the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary is one of the amazing projects that offer refuge to the orphaned bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…

30/04/2018

Edirisa Musuza, a.k.a.Eddy Kenzo is now Uganda's Tourism ambassador. In a statement by Uganda Wild life Authority, they explained that the singer would unleash to the world Uganda’s unique Wildlife and promote Uganda’s tourism destinations. Kenzo at the beginning of April 2018 donated his awards to the Uganda Museum to boast tourism.

27/04/2018

RIP: Another tragedy has occurred in Uganda's Tourism sector following the death of Chimp ZAKAYO who has been living in Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC) formerly known as Entebbe Zoo. The world-renowned chimpanzee Zakayo has passed on at the age of 54. The Uganda's oldest Chimpanzee
Zakayo succumbed to chronic Gastroenteritis.Tributes are coming in from as far as NatGeo Wild, African Wildlife Foundation and the local folks. WILD KANDA organisation has also sent their condolences to Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. We feel gutted too.