Showing posts with label gorilla safaris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gorilla safaris. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Thing to have and remember for ever

Top Uganda Safari Offers

Whether you enjoy wild adventure expeditions and challenge, or quiet relaxation and serenity, you will agree that nothing compares to a vacation safari in Uganda. From the rare mountain gorillas to gorgeous sceneries, rafting on the Nile, extreme sports, bird watching, gorilla treks,  hikes and treks, wild game viewing in rolling grasslands teeming with wildlife, and truly unique cultural experiences, Uganda has much to offer and all these adventure are within your reach. below are some of the top safari offers;

 

Gorilla Safaris - Trips to the Gorillas in Uganda & Rwanda

There are two gorilla parks in Uganda which are prime areas for tracking these endangered giants. The Kigezi gorilla Reserve, [Mgahinga National Park] located on the northern rim of the Virunga volcanoes and Bwindi Forest. The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the south west of Uganda is the richest forest in the country in terms of plant species, and there exists more than half (about 350) of the world's population of mountain gorillas.

There are eight gorilla families that have been habituated for gorilla tracking. We offer several gorilla safaris in Uganda Safari and Rwanda. These trips range from 3 days gorilla treks to longer holidays that are combined with other adventures in Uganda, Rwanda and the East African region.

 

Chimpanzee Trekking Tours

Kibale Forest National Park is inhabited by many large families of chimpanzees, several of which are accessible to human observation by walking trails cut through the dense forest. There is also a wonderfully diverse community of other primates, including red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, gray-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L'Hoest's monkey, and black and white colobus monkey. Along with these are olive baboon, bushbaby, and the nocturnal potto. These animals have been the subject of long-term research projects, so they are now tame and easy to observe. Apart from Kibale Forest, you can also track chimpanzees in Queen Elizabeth and Murchison Falls National Parks.We offer exciting chimpanzee safaris in Uganda.

white water rafting  and Adventure trips a long River Nile,

The world's longest river roars to life as the White Nile minutes after slipping quietly from Lake Victoria. It thunders between heavily forested islands and then leaps wildly into a series of spectacular drops. The roar of the rapids drift upstream with the gently breeze. People living near the river's edge and wooden canoes laden with excited locals are mesmerized as they watch the rafts in action.

To the amazement of our audience, we plunge into the maelstrom and ride the mountainous waves downstream. The rafts explode through huge walls of whitewater and drift through the warm green pools (27°C) in the equatorial sunshine. This is white water rafting at its very best. This is the Source of the mighty Nile River, and the source of adventure and excitement. Join us for the wildest rafting trip on the planet. Enjoy the thrill and exhilaration of the best extreme sports activities Africa has to offer, knowing you are in the safest hands with Activenture Safaris Uganda.

 

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Gorilla Safaris: Leaving Behind Adventurous Memories to Cheer for a Lifetime

There cannot be any trip bigger and better than Gorilla Safaris if you are looking forward to have a blast during your vacations. The ultimate exuberance you would experience during your expedition to Uganda and Rwanda on your way to Gorilla Safaris is indeed unparalleled and untouched.

Attractions at Gorilla Safaris

The entire belt of this African paradise is all filled with breath taking sceneries that hold the capability to captivate your senses almost any time. To add further, the world-renowned apes of the likes of chimpanzees and gorillas can be seen all around this African line in bulk, that are a rarity otherwise. If you want to enjoy the excitement of all these attractions to the most, it would be better to approach a reputed travel and tourism company that holds vast experience in offering Gorilla Safaris tour packages.

Tips for Gorilla Safaris

While you opt for safaris, it would be a smart move to know some important things regarding the trip well in advance. Guides from local travel and tour companies would be the best to help in you in this regard, they are well aware of the local surrounding and hence can guide you better on which locations to travel and which ones to avoid. If you are keen to visit the wildlife parks and want to observe the activities of animals in real, make sure to keep a considerable distance, any of your unfamiliar activities may provoke them.

Tour packages for Gorilla Safaris

There are plenty of things to enjoy during your safaris in Uganda and surrounding countries, hence it would be better to plan a convincing trip that may range from 7 to 12 days or more. Though travel planners can also offer your short packages that would limit your tour to some restricted places. In either case, it is you to decide which of the package suits the best according to your requirements.

Enthralling destinations to look for

There are loads of places to visit in and around Uganda that would definitely make up for your investments, right from the first day. To begin with, visits to Uganda museum, Kasubi tombs, and Namugongo Martyrs Shrine would be preferable. In the later days of your tour, trips to Kibale NP, Bigodi swamp for bird watching, and Chimpanzee trekking would definitely make up for your entire Gorilla safari. Throughout the tour, you can always enjoy your meals and rest at the topnotch hotels in the vicinity as per your own wish or as per booked by your Gorilla safaris planner.

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Uganda Safaris and Gorilla Safaris tours offered by ugandasafarisafrica.com, Abeam Safari Company organizing Kenya tours, Uganda Tours, Rwanda Safaris, Tanzania Holidays.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Explore some Magical Locations with Uganda Safari

With innumerable tourists spots found in the world that are rich in flora and fauna and are renowned for picturesque location, people are looking for something refreshing and unique locations that can provide them complete adventure and excitement. Tourists with a different taste will definitely love to explore Uganda safari, which offer them close encounter with some of the most endangered species of wildlife. The rich wildlife of the country is making it a hot tourist destination for the worldwide tourists who have great interest and charm of the wildlife creatures. Thus, Uganda is rightly termed as Africa's best holiday destination, which lays a perfect platform for tourists by offering them with amazing and magnificent safari tours.

Uganda, the pearl of Africa, boast of innumerable safari attractions that a single visit to this magical land will not be adequate to experience all the admiration of this place. The country comprises of incredible array of wildlife and is especially renowned for its gorilla population, where half of the remaining gorilla population is found. Beside this, the tourists also get to experience several other varieties of animals and birds that are difficult to explore in any other location of the world. The lovers of rich wildlife are sure to be delighted with the Uganda safari tour that cover several such destination of Uganda that still remain unexplored by the tourists.

Uganda safaris cover untouched destination as these places are not explored by too many tourists due to unawareness. Thus, to popularize these places the tour operators have design several Uganda safaris that offer visitors to encounter some rarest of the rare animals and birds species along with some magnificent natural attractions like mountain gorillas in Bwindi, abundant wildlife, rolling hills, crater lakes and magical mountains. Beside the mountain gorillas, Uganda safaris also cover chimpanzee trekking, wildlife safaris, mountaineering tours and bird watching safaris. To make people aware of Uganda culture, tour operators also design cultural tours that offer a true reflection of the African rich cultures. All these natural and wildlife attractions back Uganda as the most stimulating African safari destination.

Uganda is not only best for viewing wildlife but also best for experiencing nature at its best. Tourists get the opportunity to safari across the vast savannah, the lush tropical rainforest associated with East Africa. Uganda safari of natural attractions comprises of snow-peaked mountains of Africa's tallest mountain range, dozens of lakes and rivers in Lake Victoria, beautiful and famous waterfalls, and Queen Elizabeth National Park that proves to be a more traditional safari location unmatched in its beauty.

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Uganda tours, Uganda Safaris Tours offered by ugandasafarisafrica.com, Abeam Safari Company  organizing Uganda Safari tours, Kenya tours, Gorilla Trekking Vacations, Rwanda Safaris, Tanzania Holidays.

Enjoy the Breathtaking Gorilla Safaris amidst the Wonderful Location of Uganda

Among the different holiday trips planned by the vacationers there are few trips that leave in their memories all through the life. One such impressive and rewarding holiday trip is of Uganda that offers tourists a genuine bless for eyes in the form of breathtaking landscapes, magical snow peaked mountains, beautiful waterfalls and dozens of lakes and rivers. Innumerable natural attractions of Uganda are sure to mesmerized tourists with amazing beauty and charm. Beside natural attractions Uganda is also renowned for rich wildlife, where one gets to explore different species of animals and birds that are hard to find in any other part of the world. Among all the natural and wildlife attractions, the Africa's greatest treasure is its mountain gorillas.

Half of the world's remaining gorillas can be found in Uganda either at Parc Des Volcanoes in Rwanda or at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Thus, people making mind of gorilla safari will find no better place than Uganda to go for gorilla safaris. The wonderful gorillas found in Uganda are trained by the special teams to tolerate human presence. The distinguished feature of the gorilla safaris is that the tourists get an opportunity to go beyond their perception about these gorillas to develop a new and unique insight about this endangered animal. The special way through which they take care of their offspring or the way they search for food or move around and sometimes even interact with humans.

Gorilla safaris might seem exciting but getting a chance to see gorillas is not that easy, as one can never be sure of viewing them. The safari to gorillas' groups move through dense vegetation and along steep slopes and it can several hours to reach their place. Tourists going for gorilla safari need to do enough preparation as the dense vegetation is found with burning and stinging nettles and red ant. Thus, tourists need to protect themselves from these dangers. Gorillas are not at all easy to track as they move around from one place to another. Tourists are able to have a close encounter with them just because they habituated to humans. Although tourists going for gorilla safari need to follow the following basic rules:

Tourists must be over 15 years of age

Tourists must not be suffering from any infectious disease

Tourists are allowed only one hour period and they have to maintain a distance of at least 5 meters from the gorillas.  
   
Only 6 to 12 visitors in a group are allowed per day

Flash photography is strictly prohibited

Eating or drinking is not allowed in the proximity of the gorillas

Touching and pointing at the gorillas are not allowed

Following these basic rules tourists can enjoy the gorilla safaris that will surely remain in their memories all through their life. The distinguished feature of the gorilla safaris is that the tourists get an opportunity to go beyond their perception about these gorillas to develop a new and unique insight about this endangered animal.

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Uganda Safaris and Gorilla Safaris tours offered by ugandasafarisafrica.com, Abeam Safari Company  organizing Kenya tours, Uganda Tours, Rwanda Safaris, Tanzania Holidays.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Kenya safaris and beach holidays

 

Safari, in Kiswahili language mostly spoken in Kenya and Tanzania, the word safari means "journey". This actually refers to traveling around. Africa is mostly known for safari, these countries in Africa include Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Uganda and many more that you probably have heard of.

Before deciding to organize and arrange a safari trip to a particular destinations, many things click on your mind such as proper documentation, vaccines that you are suppose to get, air ticket which some may find hard to combine and maybe probably postpone your trip. These are things that you should organize and arrange first.

When you get all these in one place then you are set for a wonderful experience in Africa, most probably Kenya which is known with all the safari lovers. First of all you need to book your safari with your outfitter prior before boarding the plane, and arrange with them the necessary arrangements like transfers which normally cost $20 one way, accommodation in Nairobi which varries according to your budget, your safari programme and make sure to know on these programme and the quote offered whats included and what is not included to avoid unnecessary surprises when you land in Kenya.

Most of the famous national parks in Kenya that you ought to consider when visiting include Maasai Mara national Park, Lake Nakuru national park, Amboseli National park, Tsavo East and Tsavo west national park, Aberdare national park, Lake Naivasha and many. Visiting these national parks you can either join the group that your outfitter will provide (there available group) or you can go private at a different cost cost. The safari in Kenya are of different types commonly known as the camping safari and the lodge safari. Most of the camping safari ranges between 130$ - 150$ per person per day. For the lodge safari they commonly range between  220$ - 250$ per person per day. Accommodation in lodges includes the famous lodges like Mara Sopa lodge, Mara Simba lodge, Mara Sarova tented camp, Keekorok lodge, Lake Nakuru lodge, Lion hill lodge, Amboseli sopa lodge and many more. For camping safaris most of the campsites are self contained with beds and bedding's so you don't need to bring a sleeping bag for you trip, carrying a sleeping bag were the old days and not anymore.

Most safari outfitters offers programmes starting from 3 days to 15 days safari depending on your budget, your programme and the time you have in a particular destination. We should also consider the lovers of trekking, trekking can be done in the Mount Kenya, Mount Meru  and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

The vehicles used for safari in Kenya include safari mini van with open roof ideal for game viewing and Land cruisers, but with land cruiser the price is always a bit higher compared to the safari mini van. All these vehicles accommodate a maximum of 8 pax with each passenger having a guarantee window seat.

Kenya is a home for safari with all the fun, excitement, journey, new discovery starting. There are different communities to lean different cultures if interested and also to enjoy the local foods which is very different from the Western Cuisine. The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai mara will be starting in June and this is one of the most amazing spectacular event you shouldn't miss for anything. When organizing your safari this summer holidays, Kenya is one of the places you should put in your diary. Dont forget your camera, you need to take as much photos as you can to keep in your diary and to remember your vacation in Kenya.

 

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Africa Venture safaris offers Kenya safaris, Tanzania safaris and Uganda safaris in East Africa.