Nestled in northeastern Uganda, Kidepo Valley National Park is 1442 km². It has rough hills, seasonal riverines, and a semi-arid Savannah when it was gazetted in 1962. Among the ten Ugandan parks, the park is renowned for its wealth of exotic wildlife, including Rothschild giraffes, the big four of the five (African elephant, lion, leopard, and cape buffalo), warthogs, wild pigs, cheetahs, jackals, zebras, impalas, elands, Uganda kobs, nocturnal animals like mongooses and bush babies, and birds, including ostritch.
Activities That are done within and around Kidepo Valley National Park
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- Game drive
Kidepo Valley National Park’s game drive may be done in two areas: Kidepo Valley and Narus, however Narus Valley is the park’s principal game-viewing location, with a permanent water source that attracts big populations of: lions, buffalo, elephants and antelopes species.
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- Cultural experience
The Karamojong are a semi-nomadic pastoral group with cultural parallels to Kenya’s Maasai, known for their cattle-keeping traditions and martial lineage and the Ik people are a small hunter-gatherer population living in Kenya’s mountains whose traditional way of life is under threat.