Kidepo Valley is Uganda’s most remote national park as few undertake the pilgrimage to the park but the spectacular beauty of this pristine wilderness impresses all that make it. Forlies in the rugged, semi-arid valleys of Karamoja province on the far northern border with the Sudan. Kidepo ranks among Africa’s finest wildernesses, it was gazetted as a national park in 1962 and is named the third-best national park in Africa which makes it a must-visit for everyone in Uganda. Its estimated to be 1442sq km in the Karamoja region, northeast of Uganda. From Apoka in the heart of the park, a savannah landscape extends far beyond the gazetted area, towards horizons outlined by distant mountain ranges.
The park contains one of the most exciting faunas of any Ugandan national park. Along with the neighboring Karamoja region, it houses many species found nowhere else in Uganda, including the greater and lesser kudu, eland and cheetah. Carnivores here include the lion, leopard, spotted hyena and black-backed and side-striped jackals. Other large species regularly seen here are elephant, Burch ell’s zebra, bush pig, warthog, Rothschild’s giraffe, Cape buffalo, bushbuck, bush duiker, Defassa waterbuck, Bohol reedbuck, Jackson’s hartebeest and Oribi.
