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Uganda Gifted by Nature
Uganda is set to be a major tourist destination once the proposed 7 Wonders National Program takes center stage. The campaign will also boost Uganda’s revenue earnings with figures estimated at over $2.5b each year. The initiative designed by Amos Wekesa Masaba a tourism investor and President Uganda Tourism Association is supported by the Private [...]
Uganda a must place to visit in 2012
Ugandais home to largest number of primates including mountain gorillas, one of the rare animal species in the world. It is the source of the mighty River Nile which offers the best white-water rafting in the world, it’s blessed with snow-capped mountain range in Africa-Rwenzori, and wonderful water falls, birds and vegetation. Ugandaas a country [...]
Tour a round with Access Africa Safaris
Access Africa safaris are here to take you around Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo for wildlife safaris, Gorilla safaris, Chimpanzee safaris, Birding safaris, Hiking safaris, Cultural tours, Flying safaris, primate safaris, honeymoon, and so many others. At Access Africa Safaris, we offer an exclusive range of scheduled tours depending on the number of days [...]
Entebbe Airport is emerging as a top destination for giant global airlines.
By 1993, Entebbe Airport was handling about 400,000 passengers annually. Today, the figure has risen to over one million passengers, which is an attractive growth pattern. Ignie Igundura, the CAA head of corporate affairs, says the current passenger traffic was the figure that CAA expected to get by 2018. “We are ahead of our projection. [...]
Uganda National Parks:
Uganda proudly boosts of 10 National Parks that have the vast potentials as tourism destinations. While visiting the parks, visitors are privileged to enjoy exceptional wildlife to Queen Elizabeth national park, Lake Mburo national Park, Semuliki national Park, including incomparable and unique game viewing, bird watching safaris, and Mountain hiking safaris to Rwenzori National Park, [...]
Cultural Safaris to Uganda:
Ugandais a diverse nation made up of several broad linguistic groups, the Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and northwestern portions of the country. The first category includes the large and historically highly centralized kingdom of Buganda, the smaller [...]
Birding safari
If you care for wildlife or what takes place on the nature calendar you were part of the birding activities last month (September 30). On this day Bird lovers were in Murchison falls national park to celebrate Uganda’s famous bird species. This was a competition of numbers, for which group would register the biggest number [...]
Journalists and UWA wardens climb the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park hills in the 2011 gorilla census exercise
Tourism to Bwindi focuses on gorilla tracking, Slightly more than half the world’s mountain gorilla population is resident in Bwindi and the number of tourists tracking gorillas has increased from 1,313 in 1993 to 15,112 last year. The number is expected to increase even further, there are three more gorilla groups to open and these [...]
Conservation body disagree over planned cultural centre
The International Gorilla Conservation Programme officials say the planned centre will generate more revenue to support gorilla programmes contrary to competition claims. A disagreement between local tourism operators around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) over a planned establishment of a parallel cultural centre likely to compete with the one [...]
Ngorongoro Crater: A jewel of Tanzanian
Ngorongoro Conservation Areawas separated from the Serengeti Eco-system in the 1959 to conserve the natural resources in the area. The area encompasses three spectacular Volcanic Craters, the Olduvai Gorge, huge expanses of savannah, forest and bush land making it the flagship of Tanzania’s tourism industry. Formerly part of the Serengeti National Park when the latter [...]