Day-by-day itinerary

What the operator has planned, day by day, across 4 days.

1. Day 1

   Entebbe To Kidepo Valley National Park By Air

   On arrival in Entebbe you are met by the Oree Safaris guide and taken to a hotel for a few hours at leisure while the charter flight is arranged. You then fly from Entebbe Airport to Apoka airstrip just outside Kidepo Valley National Park, where a guide meets you for the short drive to the lodge. Three nights are spent at Adere Safari Lodge, which looks out over the Kidepo Valley from a private veranda. Day game drives are standard, while nature walks and cultural visits to the Karamojong villages and the Ik in the Morungole mountains can be arranged on request, and because Kidepo is so remote the trip is built around flying in and driving only inside the park. All meals are included.

2. Day 2

   Full Day Game Drive In Kidepo Valley National Park

   The whole day is given to wildlife viewing, which is what it takes to cover ground in a park this size. Driving is concentrated in the Narus Valley, where permanent pools and rivers hold animals for most of the year, while the Kidepo Valley itself carries little wildlife but the best of the semi-arid scenery and is the place for photographs. Along the swamps you look for hippos and buffalo herds, with an estimated 4,000 buffalo gathering at certain times of year. On the valley floor, giraffes, lions lying up on the rock outcrops, cheetahs, plains zebra, topi and hartebeest are the usual sightings, and beyond the Narus River ostriches and secretary birds turn up.

3. Day 3

   Karamojong Cultural Visit Or A Bush Walk

   This day is left open and you choose from several options. A community walk introduces the Karamojong, whose way of life resembles that of the Maasai and who live in clustered mud huts and kraal homesteads known as manyattas. A bush walk with a ranger is the alternative, with short routes around the Apoka tourism centre good for zebra, hartebeest and birds, and longer guided walks crossing the open grassland where lions, elephants and buffalo may be watched at a safe distance under an armed escort. The third option is a cultural walk to the Ik, the smallest ethnic group in Uganda and known as the mountain people, reached with an armed ranger up into the Morungole range 2,000 metres above the Kidepo plains, where you learn about their hunter-gatherer life, their bows and arrows and their fire-making.

4. Day 4

   Departure

   After breakfast you drive to Apoka Airstrip. From there you fly back to Entebbe International Airport.