Kidepo Valley National Park Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour
Kidepo Valley National Park Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour – Kidepo Valley National park Is an isolated Uganda Safari park found in the rocky semi-arid of Karamoja bordering between Uganda, South Sudan and Kenya, located on a 1442 square meters dominated by rugged savannah and beautiful blue mountains such as Napore-Nyagia mountain, Morungole mountain, Lotukei mountain and many more others. The fact that it is in a semi-arid area, water supply is scarce and can be found along a few places such as Narus River and Kidepo River
Initially, Kidepo valley national park was not a national park as it was just another area inhabited by the Dodoth pastoralists who are famously known as the Karamajong and the IK farmers.
Sights
Map
Info
There were many Borassus palm trees that attracted so many people that came to pick the fruits and make things out of them such as beer, therefore the Dodoth pastoralist named it Kidepo from their verb a kidepo meaning ‘to pick up’. In 1958 the area was gazetted because people were burning down the bushes as it was infested with tsetse flies and the fact that animals were attacking people and their livestock/homesteads, it was therefore gazetted to protect both the animals from being poached and attacking people with their livestock.
