
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 & other cultural attractions but also including detailed reviews of the ever-growing selection of world-class lodges & budget hotels that service them Uganda boasts the most varied
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- 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 & 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 & abundant buffaloes Elephants abound in Murchison Falls National Park coursed through by a dramatic stretch of the White Nile dense with hippos crocodiles & 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 1000 species
- in a country similar in size to Great Britain or the state of Oregon
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Includes:: dozens of Western rainforest specials difficult to see elsewhere as well as the iconic great blue turaco & shoebill Philip Briggs is the world's foremost writer of guidebooks to Africa He has been exploring the continent's highways byways & backwaters for over 30 years