Viajar a Uganda

With a size of 241,000 square kilometres (half the size of Spain), Uganda is home to a number and variety of animal landscapes which is unique on the African continent. Therefore, to travel to Uganda is to travel to the “Pearl of Africa”, as the famous politician Winston Churchill once called it.The country in the Great Lakes region (bordering South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo) proudly boasts a mild climate, with year-round temperatures of between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius. This is partly due to its location in East Africa, with the equator running through it.Travelling to Uganda also allows you to experience different landscapes: the savannah to enjoy the best safari you can visit, the rugged mountains, the rich wetlands and the great lakes or dense rainforests. And it is here that travelling to Uganda becomes more meaningful, with a unique setting where the world’s last mountain gorillas are tracked (along with Rwanda and Congo).The famous primates are not the only ones that inhabit Uganda. Chimpanzees, colobus or Golden Monkey are part of this peculiar list of ten or so members, complemented by more than a thousand birds and mammals of all kinds.Travelling to Uganda also means returning to a world of ancient explorers who travelled from the sources of the White Nile, in the heart of Lake Victoria, to the Murchinson Falls, via Lakes Albert and Edward. A world of anthropological richness, where we find the Karamajong pastoralists and the Ik (in the north), the Batwa of the equatorial forests or the Bakiga around Kabale.Uganda captures the traveller from the first moment they land in the residential Entebbe, crosses the populous capital of Kampala and travel through the country of a thousand faces. Uganda represents the essence of Africa.