Exploring Uganda on a Self Drive Safari
Travel independently with a self-planned itinerary on such wonderful safaris in the pearl of Africa.
Most travelers have got different desires when it comes to making trips that will always make a difference in their life. Visitors as of current prefer making their own esteemed safaris depending on the dream destinations; a self-esteemed traveler has a choice to make when it comes to ideals of benefit.
It all starts by making a booking with the best of your travel’s agency that is well organized with a potential of hiring you a well facilitated vehicle. It requires reading terms and conditions for the potential company that hires you a car in the original place. There are many car hire agencies in Uganda but it will depend on the choice that you make after successful negotiations with ample car hire company.
There are several fleets to hire in the meantime depending on the places of interest to visit, in this case there are long serving trips that will extend to upcountry drive and those that will cover short distances for example road trips in town or cities. Lots of comfortable cars are on market and for you to hire for both budget cars and luxurious cars, the opportunity to hire a car of you interest is welcome.
Clients have always ran for RAV4 cars that are not only cheap to hire but also very easy to relate with. For the fact that they are pocket friendly when it comes fuel consumption, a RAV4 is a saving car for tourists that go travel for longer distances. They are also comfortable and they have a 4 wheel drive transmission in which it’s very had to get stuck in slippery areas. At only USD 50 you are guaranteed a 4x4wheel drive Rav4 at that price negotiable depending on the days of use hired at the analysis of the terms and conditions that you sign before your departure.
Nowadays, there are numerous visitors who prefer traveling with their families and more so there are serviced family cars to hire for self-drive safaris in Uganda. A super custom is one of the best family cars that several clients have opted to use for longer distances like those may extending to national parks. Booking for a super custom will only require you from as low as USD 80 per day for self-drive and a guided booking with a chauffeur driver will require you from USD 110 per day depending on the number of days hired.
Spend your holiday with a self-proclaimed principle. For clients interested in honey moon plus those aiming at long term rentals for holidays in Uganda, driving up country routes is eventful, full of experience and adventure. There are different places to visit that will bring a smile on your face. Go spend your holiday and kill off the stress in the jungle.
Bwindi impenetrable national park is the jungle you should not miss when it comes to explore the unexplored; on a safari of your own you can take a gorilla trekking adventure to Bwindi, an activity that attracts many visitors all year. You can enjoy a gorilla safari experience in only 3 days; at the park you are entitled for a detailed briefing before a trail starts for rare mountain gorillas in the mist. The hike is an educational trek where by a professional guide well knowledgeable will take you around this awesome activity. The trek is estimated to take 3-4 hours in a search for gorillas in the park. Clients are given one hour to relate with giant apes after finding them.
A Self drive in Uganda is one of its own.You enjoy deciding where, when and how to go by yourself with no pressure exerted on which activity you are start with, in other words you’re your own guide to a tailor made trip.
Independent travelers enjoy making special activities, when clients visit Uganda they are always optimistic to go to the wild. Some even yearn to get close to the king of the jungle and the other’s fortune is finding the big five wild animal, full filling this can only be done through extending the bounds to perimeters of the game parks well known for wildlife.
A land cruiser safari car is better for this; at times clients may prefer camping gears for true wildlife safari camping experience in the reserved places. Hiring a Toyota Land cruiser at a simple cost is flexible after getting to agreed terms for car hire services. Link to Uganda wildlife safaris on a self- drive itinerary, making a trip to Queen Elizabeth national park is full of wonders. In this park you will enjoy an early guided game drive in search for wildlife with a chance of seeing the lions in there hunting for kobs to feed on.
This kind of adventure is full of amazements and wonders as it covers visiting the nearby fishing grounds of Kasenyi on Lake George as a community activity in the park. Before Kasenyi, you will get to LakeBunyampaka to experience salt extraction and also relax to buy crafts as souvenirs.
During the afternoon you will be proceeding to Mweya for a boat cruise, they are two boats companies and each company has a scheduled time for when to depart for a cruise; the UWA boat usually goes at 3pm and the other is king fisher that sails at 2:00 pm, at the boat here you will get close with wildlife on bunks of Kazinga channel, herds of buffalos, elephants, different species of antelopes, and several of bird spices, for almost 2 hours an experienced guide will provide educative and information on the species that you will come across.
For self-drivers who wish to extend to Uganda’s biggest national park commonly Murchison Falls, it’s their mandate to prepare accordingly for a 3 or more days in this park, a journey starts from your respective lodge or any sort of accommodation for the a planned road trip with the essence of driving upcountry.
It is suitable that you take an early self-drive depending on the itinerary drawn to follow and the activities intended to do that very day. For the first day before you reach Murchison Falls Park, you may decide to make a stopover at theZiwa Rhino sanctuary located almost 176 km from kampala along Gulu Road in Nakasongola district to embrace the re-introduced Rhinos in their family, here you can have a rest too, before heading to your destiny.
Reaching Murchison is estimated to be 5 to 6 hours with your time calculated from Kampala the capital city of Uganda to Murchison Falls, along Kampala – Guluroad you branch to road a way to connect to Murchison via Budongo forest.
The top of the falls is a distance before you reach the main falls gate to cross the ferry; here you can decide visiting the top for a long lasting memory adventure as you will witness the rainbow with waters splashing into the narrow gorge and also a nature walk to view both the top and bottom of the falls.
After this experience you check in to your accommodation depending on the where you booked, there are several lodges in the central part of the park or the Para side; Red chill Rest Camp, Geo lodges Nile Safari Lodges, Para Safaris Lodge, Sambiya River Lodge, Shoebill Camp Site, Yobe Safari Camp to mention but a few.
A word para is a Luo word that means the land or home of hippos, and accessing the southern and the northern banks will mean crossing the ferry to access the roads either way.
Game drive is a fascinating activity in Murchison national park;travel and watch different wildlife species in their families, enjoy a morning game drive that usually start early morning after crossing with a ferry for the case of those who checked in at either red chill, Nile safari lodges, sambiyi river lodge.
The king of the jungle can be seen early morning in the den although it’s not always a must due to nature as a factor where by lions keep hiding in different areas not on the demarcated tracks to go wild. Other wildlife species include the giant African elephants, buffaloes that always keep in their herds, Uganda kobs, oribs, bush bucks and other antelopes
Boat cruise
A link to the fascinating river Nile bunks is a special one, booking the boat in advance is ever recommended especially when it comes the pick seasons, cruise and sail on the white waters where you will have chances to see hippos swimming and diving as they splash waters by their nose while floating, it is such an adventurous moment sharing the route with crocodiles sun bathing and lying stride the rocks, wild animals go by on river bunks to rest in big numbers, elephants, herds of antelopes and buffaloes , birds and predators .
The cruise takes you down to the bottom of Murchison falls for the magnificent view of the falls eye close; here water fixes its self in a narrow gorge to make roaring sound forming a fantastic thunderous water fall with a beautiful rain bow.
The fruits of a self-driving safari are still amazing and the experience takes you along with adventure of a life time.
