Kidepo Valley National Park

Location:

560 km from Kampala via Kampala – Gulu- Kitgum Road.

Air: 396.05 km (246.09 mi) North East of Kampala.

Coordinates: 3.7229443, 33.6924934

Charter flights to Kidepo take about two hours.

Kidepo Valley National Park offers Uganda’s and most probably Africa’s ultimate wilderness experience.

Covering 1442 km² in the rugged, semi-arid valleys of North Eastern Uganda in Karamoja sub region, the park borders Sudan and Kenya. Its isolation makes it one of Africa’s enjoyable and finest wildernesses. The park sits approximately 700km from Kampala.

Kidepo has a profusion of big game and hundreds of bird species hosting over 77 mammals and around 476 bird species. It is a dream destination for birdwatchers because it features several species not found in any other Ugandan park.

Cultural tours

The Karimojong

The Karimojong tribe are found in North-Eastern part of Uganda (Karamoja) where Kidepo is located. A visit to the community helps you learn about the closed culture of the Karimojong They stay in communal enclosed traditional homesteads called “Manyattas and adorn colourful attire. They decorate their faces with tattoos. One of their most popular dances is Edonga where dancers compete for the highest leap in the air. The Karimojong, are traditionally conservative and have tried to resist external influences on their nomadic lifestyle but are now torn between tradition and modernity.

The Ik tribe

Up in the in the mountains the border with Kenya live the Ik also called Teuso who are one of Uganda’s smallest and marginalized tribes numbering about 10,000. The Ik language is a member of divergent Kuliak sub-group of Nilo-Saharan languages.

The Ik used to live in the fertile plains of Kidepo until they were evicted when Kidepo was made a National Park in 1962.

Birding in Kidepo Valley:

Kidepo Valley National Park has about 476 bird species, which is the second-highest of any protected area in Uganda after Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Among the birds in Kedepo, 60 species haven’t been recorded in any of Uganda’s other National Parks. Among them are: Ostrich, Rose-ringed Parakeets which only in East naturally occur in the and Clapperton’s Francolin. Kidepo has a good number of with 56 species on record, ranging in size from the Pygmy Falcon to the Secretary bird often seen striding across the open plains. Migratory birds are present from November to April.

Kidepo Valley National Park bird list

Source eBird

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