Uganda
About this book
The Bradt Guide to Uganda, now more than 500-pages long, is the definitive travel handbook to this wonderful but oft-neglected destination, not only providing comprehensive background information to its varied national parks, towns and other cultural attractions, but also including detailed reviews of the ever-growing selection of world-class lodges and budget hotels that service them.
Uganda boasts the most varied - and arguably the most exciting - safari circuit in Africa. The lush montane forests of Bwindi protect the world's largest remaining population of mountain gorillas, many of which have become habituated to tourists and can be tracked to within a few metres on foot. Elsewhere, Queen Elizabeth National Park, set below the snow-capped Mountains of the Moon, is renowned for its tree-climbing lions and abundant buffaloes. Elephants abound in Murchison Falls National Park, coursed through by a dramatic stretch of the White Nile dense with hippos, crocodiles and waterfowl, while Kibale Forest offers superb chimpanzee tracking as well as the opportunity to see ten other monkey species in their natural jungle habitat. For birders, an astonishing checklist of more than 1, 000 species - in a country similar in size to Great Britain or the state of Oregon ¬- includes dozens of Western rainforest specials difficult to see elsewhere, as well as the iconic great blue turaco and shoebill.
Philip Briggs is the world's foremost writer of guidebooks to Africa. He has been exploring the continent's highways, byways and backwaters for over 30 years.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Uganda Essentials
- Colour Map
- List of Maps
- Photos - Don’t Miss
- Introduction
- At a Glance
- Part One General Information
- Chapter 1 History and background
- Chapter 2 Natural History
- Chapter 3 Practical Information
- Chapter 4 Health
- Part Two Entebbe Kampala and The Southeast
- Chapter 5 Entebbe
- Chapter 6 Kampala
- Chapter 7 Around Entebbe and Kampala
- Chapter 8 Masaka Ssese Islands and Environs
- Chapter 9 Jinja and the Upper Nile
- Chapter 10 Mbale and the Mount Elgon Region
- Part Three Northern Uganda
- Chapter 11 Gulu and the Northeast
- Chapter 12 Pakwach and West Nile
- Chapter 13 Bunyoro
- Chapter 14 Murchison Falls Conservation Area
- Part Four Southwest Uganda
- Chapter 15 Fort Portal Kibale National Park and the Toro Crater Lakes
- Chapter 16 The Semliki Valley
- Chapter 17 The Rwenzori Mountains and Kasese
- Chapter 18 Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Chapter 19 Kabale and Kisoro Districts
- Chapter 20 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Chapter 21 Ankole and Lake Mburo
- Appendix 1 Language
- Appendix 2 Glossary
- Appendix 3 Further Information
- Index
- Author
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover
