Kidepo Valley National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Uganda
About Kidepo Valley National Park
The park contains unusual, not often sighted predators such as the aardwolf, bat-eared fox, caracal, cheetah, hunting dog and striped hyena. the park also contains the usual plains animals such as lions, leopards, giraffe and other common herbivores. Small cats are also found within the park. Before the area was gazetted as a national park, there lived the Dodoth pastoralist and Ik people who used their own land communally for keeping cattle, farming, and at the same time their hunting grounds. Later, the area was gazetted as a game reserve (Kidepo valley Game reserve) by the British colonial government in 1958. This was to aim to protect and conserve the animal life from hunters and control tsetse flies in the area. In 1962, the newly independent government of Uganda under the late Milton
Where to Stay in Kidepo Valley National Park
- 🏨Apoka Lodge
- 🏨NgaMoru Wilderness Camp
- 🏨UWA Bandas
Kidepo Valley National Park Travel Guide Sections
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