Discover love in Uganda, you have to understand that there is love in Africa and with a romantic, or honeymoon safari in Uganda, you will create the most special memories and deep bonds for life. Have you ever considered the best romantic spots to take your partner, you don’t have to wonder much longer, we have compiled 4 of wilderness safaris most romantic experiences across the Uganda National Parks. Each of these areas is remote, wild, scenic and adventure-filled. Below are the ideal destinations to enjoy quality time with your most loved one in Uganda’s finest wilderness areas.
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Fall in love with the bush as you drive through the wonder of this Savannah. A road trip, with sights, sounds and smells that will always remind you of a love of Uganda that has to be experienced to truly understand. Despite this being Uganda’s most well-known and regularly visited wildlife area, it is far from overcrowded. What I like most about Queen Elizabeth is that it boasts a spectacular array of habitats and landscapes for tourists to appreciate.
Boat cruises along the game-rich Kazinga Channel are a perennial favorite with wildlife enthusiasts and birders alike. On a clear day you can see all the way to the Rwenzori Mountains, but there’s no need to travel that far because volcanic features dominate sections within the park. The result is a stunning landscape peppered with crater lakes best appreciated from the air.
The Kyambura Gorge on the edge of the national park is also a good place for tracking chimpanzees. But, without doubt, my favorite part of the park is the wild Ishasha sector: famed for its tree-climbing lions, which can regularly be found hanging out in the shady figs along the main road. This is a park with plenty of wildlife and lots to offer the discerning safari aficionado.
Murchison Falls National Park
Every relationship is unique, so why not celebrate yours in Murchison Falls National Park, a nice destination for a romantic road trip. Murchison Falls is both Uganda’s largest and oldest conservation area, occupying just under 4,000 square kilometres in the far west of the country. It is named for the impressive cataract formed where the waters of the Victoria Nile squeeze through an eight-meter-wide gorge on their way downstream to Lake Albert, the shores of which also lie within the park.
A highlight to any visit is a boat trip up the Nile to one of the most spectacular sights of water pushing through a cleft in the escarpment: Murchison Falls. Gliding on this mighty river is an unforgettable experience: hippos snorting everywhere, elephants playing in the water and lots of water birds along the shore.
The afternoon boat trip is great for spotting animals coming to drink. Head west, downstream, for your best chance of seeing a shoe bill, perhaps Africa’s most sought-after bird, and a denizen of the papyrus swamps at the Lake Albert Delta.
Bird life is extremely rich throughout the park, including in the adjoining Budongo Forest reserve to the south, where there is also chimp tracking and a full range of other primates.
Kibale National Park
On this self-drive drive safari, fall in love with Kibale Forest, best-known for its habituated chimpanzees, and in my experience, it is certainly the best place in Uganda to track man’s closest relative, though sightings of these fascinating and delightful creatures tend to be less intimate than in Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains or Gombe Stream National Parks. It’s not a typical safari stop, but if you love primates, you’re going to love Kibale Forest.
The latter is what brings most people here because some have been habituated to humans and the chances of finding them are quite good, plus the tracking is not very difficult. There’s the usual option to spend an hour with the chimps, but Kibale offers a day-long experience too. You might also see elephants, buffaloes, or leopards, but don’t count on it – the dense forest makes finding them very difficult. On the other hand, night walks are excellent here with bush baby and civet sightings fairly common.
But the great thing about Kibale Forest is that it offers so much more than just chimp tracking. At least 12 primate species are resident here, and I have often seen five or six in a day not just chimps but also the acrobatic Red Colobus or Black-and-White Colobus, the more secretive Grey-cheeked mangabey or Red-tailed monkey, or the relatively terrestrial Vervet or L’Hoests’s monkey.
Bird watching is also very good though most birders focus their efforts outside the park in small preserves like the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary which offer grassland and wetland birds alongside Kibale’s forest species.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Uganda truly delivers the most unforgettable romantic vacation experiences. There are few places on earth where you can see and track mountain gorillas, that is Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo only 3 countries.
This park is called impenetrable for good reason. Its dense rain forest make gorilla tracking hard work but the hour spent with these wonderful creatures is totally worth all the effort and expense and one you’ll never forget. Be prepared for some steep, muddy climbs on indiscernible tracks that frequently demand machetes to hack a way through the vines, thorns and shrubs.
Gorilla trekking is the star attraction, but nearby Bwindi Impenetrable National Park offers other adventures: Gorilla Habituation Experience, Birding, Batwa Cultural Experience, Bwindi Forest Walks, Mountain Biking, and Buhoma Village Community.
Because this is one of the few African forests to have survived the last Ice Age, Bwindi hosts an exceptional biodiversity (There are more mammal species here than in any other park in Uganda, albeit mostly small ones, and birdwatchers can tick off as many as 150 species in a day, including all but one of Uganda’s Albertine Rift endemics.), but the same factors that make gorilla tracking so difficult make spotting elephants, golden cat, giant forest hog, chimpanzee or any of the forest’s other large animals almost impossible. Walks among others.