Overland trip in Uganda with camping
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- Aparna Patel
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- 20 Jul, 2023
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There are plenty of camping options in Uganda especially if you would like to keep the costs down.
if your interested in Visiting Queen Elizabeth National park then you could use Elephant home or Little elephant camp,Simba safari camp,Kasenyi Lake retreat. You would spend roughly max $25 per night caping.
Murchison falls,Kibale,Kalinzu would offer camping at various campsites and budget hotels/motels are almost similar rates as with Queen Elizabeth National park.
With Kidepo ,Bwindi, Lake bunyonyi you would have to spend roughly $50 per night minimum for value for money.
As for tour Operators, Inbox me as for further details.
Please not that Most of the parks charge park entrance per person roughly $40 dollars if you don’t have permits(trekking permits for gorillas and chimpanzee)
In Uganda, outside of the main urban centres, it’s hard to find accommodation that’s reasonable value for money. Either it’s very expensive (and not too bad), or extremely cheap (and quite bad, if not really bad). Or there’s nothing at all.
Camping inside the national parks is not too much of a problem, though you will have to pay park fees, which, for foreigners, are steep, and typically also a nightly fee for pitching a tent. You would want to pitch your tent in a designated area, typically meaning close to a hotel or a park ranger.
I would not advise camping in the wild. That is, somewhere on the side of the road. And I would not at all advise this if you’re on your own.
One way around this is to find hotels with their own grounds and to ask if you can pitch your tent on their ground. Don’t expect to be able to do that for free, though.
Several tour operators in Uganda offer road trips, both self-drive and organised. They are great ways to see Uganda (‘the pearl of Africa’), but they’re not cheap.
Here are a few that are well regarded (I also have had good personal experience with all three):
- Non-EU: Travelling within the Schengen without a passport because its held at the US embassy
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Gorilla Tracking is an exhausting activity and one should be physically fit to enjoy gorilla trekking. Skilled guides will accompany groups but no porters are available to carry personal belongings and the minimum age is fifteen years. Anyone with signs of communicable disease like cough or runny nose will not be allowed to trek.
While ownership of a gorilla permit is a guarantee of trekking, it isn’t a guarantee of finding. However the chance of finding is high – 95% or more. Maximum time allowed with the gorillas is one hour at a minimum distance of 7 meters.
If you want to do it cheaply than you would be best off if travelling on your own (with a Lonely Planet guide, probably optimal group size is 4).
I found public transport in Uganda reasonably usable between major cities (not very comfortable though), and in national parks you can always hire a guy with a 4×4 (to get around and do a game drive).
Regarding camping, it is possible to camp in most (I haven’t checked all of them) national parks (which is VERY sensible thing to do if you are on a low budget) and in backpacker oriented hostels. Usually its more pleasant than sleeping in a cheap hotel, which are usually run-down and dirty by western standards.
If you want to see the gorillas, you have to get it organized months before your trip (we tried too late).
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