Camping Safaris in Uganda

Camping Safaris in Uganda

Camping Safaris in Uganda allow travelers to spend nights deep in remote areas of the national park amidst the wildlife. The Camping tours in Uganda provide typical wilderness adventure trips. You enjoy the trip away from the big rooms and beds and enjoy nights next to beautiful flora and fauna. There are numerous campsites in Uganda especially within the protected areas all over the country.

Luxury and budget camping;

A camping trip can be a budget camping or luxury camping safari depending on the visitors’s choice. The difference here is a budget your tent or organize a camping trip package. You organize it with a tour agency in Uganda that comes with a mobile tent and pitch it up or arrange to sleep in the already tented camps.

Luxury camping safari in uganda makes you experience a camping trip on a luxury level. Here, you stay in permanent tented camps set in facilities. It has facilities that a lodge can provide such as a large tent with an en-suit bathroom and flushing toilet. The tented camp also has a warm shower,dressing mirrors and electricity for light and charging your gadget.

The other difference between budget and luxury camping is the choice to prepare your meals,meanwhile,on a budget bush camping tour, you have meals from camps restuarants.

Most of the campsites in uganda are set in strategic spots. These maybe river anks or on top of the bushy hills. They provide all the basic needs to make one’s stay confortable, they provide clean bathrooms with warm water and toilets. The facilities are usually of low standards without roofs but private enough, these facilities that tourists share are usually so clean and have running water.

What to expect on camping Safaris and tours in Uganda

Uganda Camping trips make you enjoy sitting on an evening campfire. The campfire is set in delightful breathtaking surroundings to make you feel warm before you retreat in your private tent.

Visitors on camping trips can prepare their meals from the campsite bandas. Alternatively, they can order meals from the restaurant. That is if you camp near a permanent tented camp at a small fee of $5- $15 a meal.

Mobile Camping in Uganda reduces the safari cost given the high prices of hotel and lodge rooms. Many lodges and hotels offer camping facilities that come with better facilities. Such facilities include using the swimming pools though at a higher price than camping in campsites and cheap lodges. Bush Camping in Uganda allows visitors to get so close to nature with animals roaming around their tents. You enjoy the night and sleep under the bright stars which is an amazing experience. This amazing experience requires visitors to carry some essential items to fully enjoy the experience. Some of these are warm clothes, small tents that can fit in a backpack, insect repellants, and toiletries. You should also carry enough batteries or power banks. The charging ports in camping areas are usually in demand, while sleeping bags, and headlamps are also necessary.

Some camping precautions

Remember to camp close to a lodge or hotel or in a designated campsite rather than going deep in the forest alone. This may leave you at risk of attack by wild animals. Be careful when leaving the tent at night or when you head out for a game drive safari or trekking. Make sure no animals are around to enter in your absence. Keep food away from the tent or else you will attract monkeys or baboons and always zip up your tent.

Uganda Camping safaris are so adventurous that you get so close to wild animals. You also wake up to the sounds of the birds and the wilderness. It might be scary hearing a hippo or lion roaring next to your small mobile tent. However, it’s a whole great experience altogether. Express your interest in staying in tented accommodation on a Uganda trip. A tour consultant will arrange the best camping experience for your budget and style.

Bush Camping Safari in Uganda is very safe. The armed guards usually guard the camping sites or you can also camp close to other people.

The best camping sites in Uganda include the following;

Campsite, Lake Bunyonyi at Bunyonyi Overland resort

Lake Mburo National Park Campsite at Leopard Rest Camp,

Nile River Camp in Jinja

Camping at Murchison River Lodge and Red Chill Murchison Falls NP and Bush camping inside Murchison Falls National Park

Campsite at Red Chilli Hideaway in Kampala

Campsite at Buhoma Community Rest Camp in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

Campsite at Chimpanzee Guest House and Rweteera Safari Park in Kibale National Park

Campsite at Bush Lodge, Ishasha fig tree camp, Mweya peninsular in Queen Elizabeth National Park and so many more.

Major destinations and tours in Uganda

 As visitors plan to visit Uganda safari, there are quite  great and hidden places they would opt to visit  such as the 10 interesting national parks in Uganda. These 10 national parks are gazetted to be specific, each with a unique and remarkable features. Combing the difference places will reward you with a wholesome experience of Ugandan tour. These include the following;

• Bwindi impenetrable forest national park- home for mountain gorillas and famous for gorilla trekking
• Kibale national park- home fpr primates capital of the world because its diversty of primates species and mainly chimpanzee
• Queen elizabeth national park- this being the uganda second national park and UNESCO world heritage site. The best place to do a boat safari in uganda.
• Murchision falls national park- the largest national park in uganda with remarkable biobevisity and unique for its falls.
• Kidepo valley national park- the masai mara experience in uganda; the park is unique and unspoiled, filled with wildlife species that can not br traced elsewhere in the country making it a game for wildlife safari lover.
• Mgahiga gorilla national park is the other alternative for gorilla trekking in uganda and place to see golden monkeys.
• Lake mburo national park- its the smallest national park in uganda but famous for its zebra which are also only found in kidepo.

There are several other places to go on Uganda safari including cultural sites, mountains and lakes, uganda’s tourism is enjoyable and it has the endless tourist attractions.