Kidepo National Park is
considered one of the most remote safari parks in Africa and is most notable
for harboring a number of animals found nowhere else in Uganda which include
cheetahs, bat-eared foxes, aardwolves, caracal plus the greater and lesser
kudus. A large concentration of elephants, zebras, buffaloes, bushbuck,
giraffes, lions, jackals, leopards, hyenas and Nile crocodiles can also be
found there. Kidepo National Park also
offers some of the most stunning scenery of any protected area in Uganda which includes
the rolling short-grass savannah of about 1442-sq-km which is also ringed by
mountains and cut by rocky ridges.
Kidepo National Park also
contains
unusual and not often sighted predators such as the aardwolf, bat-eared fox,
caracal, cheetah, hunting dog and striped hyena. It also contains the usual savannah
animals such as lions, leopards, giraffe and other common herbivores.
Getting Around Kidepo National Park
Being a remote area with little infrastructure and many hazards like poor roads which have sand, mud, washboards, stream crossings and deep ruts, the tourist is requires to hire vehicles with 4-wheel drive and significant ground clearance because during the rainy season expert off-road driving skills are required to navigate the deep, slick "black cotton" mud which requires 4 wheeled vehicles and also requires a ranger escort.Since there is a presence of dangerous game, most travel within the park is by vehicle. Walking tours are possible with an armed ranger escort.
Kidepo
National Park Flora and fauna
The kidepo
National Park flora and fauna is mainly savannah and a variety of wild game which
include the herbivores like elephants, Rothschild giraffe, Nile buffalo,
Burchell's zebra, Oribi, Klipspringer, Uganda kob, greater and lesser Kudu,
warthog, Bush pig, Topi, grant's gazelle, Eland, Bushbuck, Common duiker, Bush
duskier, Roan antelope, Beisa oryx, Dik dik, Defassa Waterbuck, jackson's
hartbeest, Chandlers Mountain reedbuck and Bohor reedbuck. The park also
includes carnivores like lions, cheetahs, leopards, carcal, serval, spotted
hyena, stripped hyena, aardwolf, african hunting dogs, black-backed jackal,
side-striped jackal and bat eared foxes. The Primates found in the park include
the endemic (found nowhere else) Kavirondo bush baby plus 465 species of birds and
58 birds of prey.
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