The must visit national parks while on Rwanda and Uganda Tours

In the mix of a visit to Kenya and Tanzania, you can as well combine with unique Rwanda and Uganda Tours. You can expect trekking in the rugged landscapes of Uganda and Rwanda. Here are the only reserves where you can see mountain gorillas in their natural living space. The tours give you the opportunity to experience the forests with the wildest primates and bird watching circuits in all Africa. You can best experience East Africa when you add Rwanda and Uganda. Following gorillas through cloudy, thick woods can be a tricky procedure as the trails can be entrapped and wet. In any case, this exertion of the Uganda gorilla trekking tours seems negligent the moment you experience the excellently graceful animals. You can have an amazing, thrilling and cozy experience with animals when you are at some of the National Parks here.

Murchison Falls National Park

Murchison Falls National Park is a standout amongst the most favored stops in Uganda, and without a doubt in the entire Africa. This is the biggest national park in Uganda. It has the most exceptional variety of animals of the savannah and along the River Nile. The Murchison Falls National Park, with its assortment of vegetation extending from riparian forests and marsh terrains to vast savannah, gives the chance of seeing a significant number of the animal found in Uganda. In the southern area of the national park is the Budongo and Rabongo Forests, home to groups of chimpanzees and different other primates.

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Queen Elizabeth National Park is the second biggest national park in Uganda with an area of 1,978 sq.km lies on the equator in the south west of Uganda. It is adjoining with Kibale forest National Park in Uganda and Parc Nationale des Virunga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Queen Elizabeth National Park is a Biosphere Reserve for Humanity under UNESCO support. The wide different habitats within the park imply that Queen Elizabeth National Park contains the most surprising number of species – very nearly 100 kinds of mammals and 606 species of birds.

Kibale Forest National park

This rainforest situated on the equator was in recent times recognized as a national park. It is a unique habitat for primates on the planet. Twelve distinct primate species can be seen here. The 1500 chimpanzees are the primary attraction. On guided Uganda gorilla trekking tours, you experience the chimps in their natural surroundings.

Akagera National Park

This is Rwanda’s famous Savanna reserve. Akagera National Park was named after the river that runs along its eastern boundary; a vast wetland occupies eats of the park. The mighty Akagera River feeds a complex of a dozen of lakes linked by extensive papyrus swamps and winding water.

There are plenty of animals around including elephants, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and hippos.  The lakes support high concentrations of hippo and huge crocodiles. Leopard, Lion and black rhino can as well be seen.  There are 550 bird species.

Volcanoes National Park     
This national park protects the Rwandan sector of the Virunga Mountains, a chain of six extinct and three active volcanoes along the borders with Uganda and the DRC.

Gorilla trekking is the most popular activity in the park with up to 40 permits daily.  Other activities include golden monkey tracking and mountain hiking. Volcanoes National Park has 180 species.  A local specie present is the vulnerable swamp-dwelling Grauer’s rush warbler and 16 Albertine Rift endemics including handsome francolin, Rwenzori turaco, collared apalis Rwenzori batis, dusky crimson-wing and strange weaver.