Bert Baguma

Sprawling savannah plains, soaring mountains, spectacular landscapes, and dark buffalo herds spread across the grassland and make Kidepo Valley one of Africa's most picturesque safari destinations. 

Few reserves in the world can boast such a high biodiversity rating as Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwestern Uganda. Covering 1,978 square kilometers (764 sq mi), one of the country's largest, the scenic park is the most famous protected area.

Featuring some of the country's most dramatic scenery, Murchison Falls National Park includes the most powerful falls, Victoria Nile, and vast savanna plains. It lies at the northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley, where bounding escarpments fade into north Uganda's anonymous expanses.

Covering 766 sq kilometers (296 sq miles), Kibale National Park in western Uganda has an alluring landscape scenery, biodiversity, and various remarkable tourist activities including the exhilarating chimpanzee trekking adventure.

For thousands of years, the tropical forest has provided a reliable sanctuary for hundreds of animals through human's most destructive times of war, hunting, habitat destruction, and disease. The 459 endangered mountain gorillas native to the region are the most critical inhabitant among the many.