5 days Kidepo Safari | Untouched Wilderness!

This 5 days Kidepo safari will let you explore Uganda’s most remote national park, Kidepo Valley National Park. This is a park of true wilderness and scenic nature. You will have a chance to tick off “the big 5” with lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo in Kidepo and then the impressive Rhinos at Ziwa rhino sanctuary. Another highlight during the safari is a visit to the Karamojong people’s village to see how these cattle herders still live in a traditional way.

Itinerary for our 5 Days Kidepo Safari

Day 1 – Transfer to Kitugum Via Lira/ via Soroti or Gulu

Be picked up by your Yala Safari guide in the morning who will brief you before heading out to Kitgum which is in the northern part of Uganda as we start your 5 days Kidepo safari. Be prepared for a long day in the car, but with a lot to see as you enjoy the Ugandan landscape passing by the windows during this day of transfer.

Overnight: Boma hotel

Day 2 – Transfer to Kidepo valley National Park

After breakfast drive northwards through Lira in a landscape of vast plains and semi-arid savannah framed by jagged mountains and wooded hills, Kidepo is one of the wildest and most spectacular reserves in Africa. The landscape throughout the park is studded with small hills, rocky outcrops and inselbergs from which one can obtain stunning views in all directions enjoy panoramic views of the Narus River Valley and photographic opportunities of wildlife from all corners, An evening game drive along the Narus River Valley for game Viewing and photography of Elephants, herds of Buffaloes, Jackals, Jackson’s Hartebeest, Klipspringer and possibly Lions.

Overnight: Apoka Bandas

Day 3 – At Kidepo Valley National Park

After an early breakfast, go for a morning game drive to Kanangorok hot spring. A variety of animals can be seen roaming around including Ostrich. In the afternoon have a cultural experience that will bring into contact with Karamojong peoples at Karenna and Kapedo. Meet the local elders and have an opportunity to interact with them. They will show you the kraals, the grinding stones and many more interesting items.

Overnight: Apoka Bandas

Day 4 – Transfer back through Gulu

Travel through the remotest zones of Uganda, seeing the villages and thatched houses passing by the window. View the wild domestic and Cultural richness of this pearl of Africa, experience quality Vegetation Spend the night in the town of Gulu.

Overnight: Acholi Inn

Day 5 – Transfer to Kampala via Rhino sanctuary

You leave Gulu, Uganda’s second biggest town, after breakfast. Along the way to Kampala take a light break at the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary to look at rhinos being reintroduced to Uganda. Before Kampala your guide will point out to the Popular Luwero triangle and continue through to the City as he drops you at your hotel at the end of your 5 days Kidepo safari.