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From
Masindi Hotel visit Murchison Falls National Park, Budongo
Forest, Kaniyo Pabidi Chimp Tracking, Busingiro Chimp Tracking,
Birding at the Royal Mile, Western Rift Valley, The Escarpment,
Lake Albert, Kibiro Hot Springs & Butiaba Port.
An
8 hour day trip from Masindi Hotel to the Busingiro Ecotourist
Site can be organised that covers the ‘Royal Mile’
in Nyakafunjo, Budongo Forest . The Royal Mile is a forest
road lined with spectacular trees where the late Kabalega
of Bunyoro Kingdom used to walk during his leisure time. There
is also time to visit the Polish Cemetery and Church near
the Forestry College at Nyabyeya where Polish priests were
buried after the locals rebelled against them and killed them,
finally you will get a glimpse of the spectacular and varied
birdlife of Budongo Forest. Longer trips involving an overnight
stay allow time for primate watching including chimpanzee
tracking. |
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The
Busingiro Ecotourist Site is part of the Budongo Forest
Ecotourism Project, which was started in 1992 by the Uganda
Forest Department and aims to conserve the forest by working
closely with the forest edge communities. The project provides
local employment; encourages sustainable income generation
from the forest for local communities; and runs a Conservation
Education Programme.Busingiro is located in the north-west,
40km west of Masindi on the road to Butiaba where the road
to Lake Albert and the Rift Valley winds through the forest.
It is a mosaic of tropical high forest and grassland. A
small lake attracts water birds and it is an ideal site
for forest bird watching.
Busingiro
Ecotourist Site offers: guided forest walks, primate tracking,
including chimpanzees, two bandas, one with a double bed
and one with 3 single beds, campsite with borehole water,
toilets, hot overhead showers and firewood, picnic shelter,
bird and butterfly watching.
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A
little further away is Murchison Falls National Park. The entrance
to the park is less than an hours drive from Masindi Hotel,
but it takes a further hour to get to the River Nile crossing
where you can take the ferry across the river to go on safari
or take a trip up river to Murchison Falls. Leaving the hotel
first thing in the morning there is plenty of time to take the
boat trip to the Falls , usually seeing plenty of wildlife including
hippos and crocodiles and be back at the hotel by late afternoon. |
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