Mparo Royal Tombs These tombs are one of the most treasured historical sites in Hoima district, in the Western Region of Uganda and unique among the royal tombs in Uganda. The tombs that were originally owned by the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom demand a lot of respect! A kingdom that gave birth to the Bantu tribes in Uganda; Mparo Royal Tombs is a place to visit. Sitting on an expansive land along Hoima-Masindi Road that used to host the palace of Kabalega, it remains peaceful, beautiful and serene as ever and when visiting the tomb, you have to dress and conduct yourself decently. Mparo royal tombs is well known for its undying history that, once upon a time , there lived a wildly gutsy king! Omukama Kabalega, the greatest of all times in Bunyoro Kingdom. He is widely remembered here for resisting British colonialists who had allied with Buganda to fight Bunyoro for opposing colonialism. He is a key figure in African history and remains one of the remembered figures for putting on a res
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GOLDEN MONKEY TRACKING The Golden monkey ( Cercopithecus mitis kandti) also known as the Sichuan Snub-nosed Monkey and is one of Uganda’s 20 primate species. Compared with other monkey species, the golden monkeys are gorgeous in appearance; they have bright coloured fur with golden-orange patch on the upper flanks and back. Location They are found in the four national parks i.e: Mgahinga National Park in south-west Uganda, Volcanoes in north-west Rwanda and Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Habitat It lives in social groups of up to 60 individuals and moves in between areas depending on the season. During the season where ripe fruit is available they remain in those areas. With the beginning of the rainy season, bamboo is shooting and the golden monkeys move to such habitats. Results of studies indicate that if there is an area consisting of mixed fruit and bamboo, the golden monkeys tend to frequent that area more than areas consisting of only b
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Are you still spending your leisure time in stressful format? Time is gone! Slope/climb depending on your geographical location to Africa where your stressful moments will be left long way in the magical cruising water in the pearl of Africa. Give a chance to Ugandan great national parks to carryout boat cruise. Do you need a launch or group boat trip? Then tap on Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth National park, on Lake Victoria and on the River Nile in Murchison National park. The three mentioned parks are never disappointing instead expect the best beyond your imagination during the sail on this breath taking cruising water. Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) Which of the 3 parks is your first choice, I chose Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth National park (QENP), the most visited park in Uganda. It is located in the Western Region of Uganda, spanning the districts of Kasese, Kamwenge, Rubirizi, and Rukungiri. The park was founded in 1952 as Kazinga National P
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Lesser Flamingos. The Lesser flamingo is the smallest of all flamingos, but has the largest number of population. It is among the unique bird species explored by birders on safari in Uganda . Lake Munyanyange attracts birds that migrate from as far as Kenya and Canada among other countries. Birds including; Lesser Flamingos, the White Browed Robbin Chats, Black Headed Gonoleks, Long Tailed Starlings, African Hoopoes, Winding, Zitting, and Desert Cisticolas. Lake Munyanyange is a small seasonal shallow crater lake located to the North East of Katwe town. The lake is an important habitat for migratory birds and has one of the largest concentrations of the lesser black-backed gulls, Larus fuscus and other waders. These birds are Palearctic migrants arriving in October and departing in April. Thousands of these birds roost at the lake. Because it’s safe for them as at one stage of the year it turns muddy and that makes it difficult for wild animals to wade through the
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Though we are being affected by covid-19 we therefore remind our travelers that there's hope after to explore more about Africa’s pearl amidst the pretty attractive lakes with magical histories. LAKE VICTORIA Lake Victoria is the Largest Lake in the whole of Africa, the world’s largest tropical Lake and second largest lake in the whole world next to Lake Superior found in North America. Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. It has a maximum depth of between 80 and 84 metres and an average depth of 40 metres. Its catchment area covers 169,858 square kilometres. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 kilometres with islands constituting 3.7 percent of this length. Historically, the Lake was renamed Lake Victoria by an Explorer John Speke after the Queen of England but many years before the coming of the Explorer, the natives in the area used to call it Lake Nalubaale or Nyanza. The lake is shared by three countries; Uganda shares 45%, Kenya 6%/and Tanzania with