Visiting Uganda on safari offers tourists a variety of adventures to explore and enjoy from wildlife, landscapes and primates which make Uganda the best destination to visit. This small country in the far east of Africa is enthralling, it is one place in the world that can refresh one’s mind and at the same time bring exciting and joy in one’s life by visiting its endless tourist places. Uganda has breathtaking landscapes enchanted with a mammoth of wildlife species and eye catching natural physical features that always leave its tourists yearning for while on a safari.

Though Uganda has lots of places to visit, there are those that stand out most when encountered on a safari. Below are the best places to visit in Uganda for a safari

Kampala city

Kampala is the capital and commercial city and more so the most popular city in Uganda. Most of the Uganda safari start from this amazing city. This is a city with history and cultural sites fined up with architectural marvels. Kampala city is majorly dominated by the Buganda kingdom which was one of the most civilized kingdom in precolonial time. This city holds so much history before and after Uganda was scrambled and partitioned by the British in the late 19th century. While on a Uganda safari touring around Kampala city, a tourist encounters the cultural place of Kasubi Tombs where the late kings of Buganda kingdom rest, this is a heritage site under UNESCO, Kabaka’s palace where a tourist gets a comprehensive history of the Buganda kingdom and its relationship with the British and the post-independence presidents of Uganda. Kabaka’s lake is worth a visit, this is a manmade lake which was established by the strong Buganda men on the orders of kabaka Mwanga to find the easiest route to Lake Victoria.

Kampala city also has amazing religious sites with history worth to visualize and interestingly enough the two dominant faith of Christianity and Islam have structures to encounter. At old Kampala Hill, there is the famous Ghaddafi Mosque which is the main shrine for the Muslims in Uganda. This mosque has modern Arabic architecture, it is eye catching to view and a tour to its minaret gives tourists a panorama view of Kampala city. The Christian faith has the Namirembe Cathedral and Rubaga Cathedral, these structures where put up by the missionaries that came to spread Christianity in colonial time. There is also the Namugongo shrine a heritage site, is a memorable place where most of the martyrs of the two faith of Christianity and Islam were killed after disobeying the then kabaka of Buganda Mwanga. Every 3rd June, various people of mostly of Christian faith gather in this place to honor and remember these heroes who fought for religion.

There are also other places, to visit in Kampala like the Uganda museum, Makerere University the first University in East Africa and Baha’i temple. A tourist can also add reveling places to his/her catalogue like bars, Discotheques and pubs for the nightlife.

The Source of the Nile in Jinja

This is was one of the first toured place in Uganda. Its tourism dates back in the colonial times where two explorers of John Speke and Barton came to Uganda looking for it.  The two explorer where the first people to discover the source of the Nile. The Nile is the longest river in the world as it makes 6,000km journey to the top hemisphere of Africa in Egypt. In Jinja on the waters of Lake Victoria is where the Nile starts its journey to the north of Africa. There is no so much to enjoy at the Nile other watching the monument of HatiBagandi where John Speke and Barton stood to discover the Nile and also boat ride to go near to see the water tidings where it is said the Nile starts from.

Away from the actual spot of the source of the Nile, there is so much to enjoy in Jinja the Nile waters. As the Nile flows through Jinja, it leaves lots of amazing features that hold tourism activities for example, the Itanda falls where whitewater rafting is done, bungee jumping at the Cliff near the Jinja Nile Resort Hotel, there is also spot fishing and tubing on the waters of the Nile. For camping lovers, at the shores of the Nile, there are normally camping grounds where you can have a night to remember with your peers.

Bwindi impenetrable national park

Of recent years, Bwindi impenetrable national park has become the best destination for a Uganda safari because of being a home to a half of the marginal world population of mountain gorillas. Bwindi located in the southwestern part of Uganda, about 330kms away from Kampala is one place not to miss out a Uganda safari. This natural gem is one of the few places in the world to go gorilla trekking. Gorilla trekking encompasses around trekking through the tropical rain forests in search of the endangered species of