Through the unmatched rolling tropics across the Albertine rift valley of the western, the stretching thickets, and splints of Savannah that runs from western through the northern and the mixed shrubs and tropic of the central to the ends of semi-arid Savannah of northeastern. All these stature Uganda into a country of variety with mixed accommodative scales.
The prolonged status of adventures Uganda offer include this frantic luxury flying safaris. With this kind of Uganda safari tours, you forgo the long driving trails and rather choose to charter across. Uganda is a rich country as far as safari are concerned with a lot of Africa’s highlights, but reaching from zones varieties sometimes it’s more adventurous and this may not be your way.
Through the tropic, are highlighted with mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, golden monkey, Mangabey, and many primate species alongside several tropical bird species. The Savannah are highlighted with a lot among which include; Big five games, beautiful zebras, giraffes, warthogs, variety of antelope species, cheetahs, hyenas among so many wildlife species. And the montane classic zone which offers spots of Africa’s 3rd and 4th highest peaks of both Mt. Rwenzori and Mt. Elgon respectively.
The combination of the tropical, Savannah and Montane experience draw a better line of adventures. Sometimes and somewhere traversing all these experiences might be very possible and you may not be able to experience by road long drives. Yes, it’s still possible to make your reaches with shorter drives. Right from Kampala, there is an option of scheduled and chartered flights which almost reach to all parks in Uganda.
With a solo operating international airport in Uganda, there are several airstrips, and airfield which are splinted across Uganda. Almost all major cities in the country and region towns can possibly be fed with domestic airlines. So, for your luxury flying safari will always take a chartered flights with long drives which can last for about 3 and more hours of drive.
Though Uganda is a smaller interior of East African with a total land cover of about 241,000kmq. A drive from the central point to the borderlines on western or northern means a full day drive. This means even reaching to some of the top tourist destinations of Uganda, you need a just a full day of driving which is bit hectic. And the best solution not to miss out on this beautiful Pearl of Africa is to take either a chartered or scheduled flight.
Domestic flights used for Luxury Safari in Uganda
There are currently two domestic flights that offer both scheduled and chartered flights across the country. These two flights serve through the country and both offer scheduled and self-tailored flights.
Aero Link, Kampala Executive Aviation and Bar Aviation, these all start their journey from either Entebbe airport, or Kajjansi airfield and fly across the country as well across borders to neighboring countries like Tanzania and Kenya offering combined tours like Kenya Uganda Safari and Tanzania Uganda Safari Holidays.
Domestic airfield and airstrips in Uganda
These airstrips and airfield are located in National Parks and major regional towns and cities across the country. So, this means to any region you can reach with a flight. Don’t limit yourself to your target of reach, just mention of any spot you want to reach.
The Uganda Luxury safaris are determined with many considerations, but a luxury flying safari must include domestic flights reaching to various destinations with luxury safari lodges. Below we discuss various domestic airfields and airstrip where you can land when take a flight on your trip.
Northern Uganda
The region is very large, and there are several airfields and airstrips to land on. The first one is located in Arua district in the well-known west Nile. Arua is the largest city and town in the West Nile region. Then another one is located in Gulu city, the largest city in northern Uganda. Gulu is the capital of northern region, the airstrip is located within the city.
Murchison Falls National Park
This is Uganda’s largest protected areas with an area coverage of 3,893kmq. Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda’s most visited tourist destination and is famously known for majorly two, the might Murchison Falls National Park and being the park that can reward with the Big Five games with Ziwa en-route.
A Uganda safari to Murchison Falls National Park rewards with some of the longest adventure lists. Among the things to do at Murchison Falls National Park include game drives, boat cruise, top of the falls drive and hike, sports fishing, wild camping, nature walks, Budongo chimpanzee tracking, Rhino tracking at Ziwa, Community visits among others.
There are three airstrips in Murchison Falls National Park, these are Bugungu airstrip, Chobe airstrip and the famous one Pakuba airstrip. Aero Link has a daily scheduled flights to Murchison Falls National Park and as well can organize a chartered flight. With a minimum of two passengers, a flight can fly from either Entebbe or Kajjansi to Murchison and there are en-route flights from Murchison Falls National Park to Mweya in Queen Elizabeth and Apoka in Kidepo Valley National Park.
Northeastern Uganda
The major town here is Moroto town, among the daily scheduled flight, there is no program for Moroto. However, with chartered flights there is an airstrip in Moroto town. It’s the biggest town before reaching Kidepo Valley National Park. Northeastern region is known for accommodating the nascent Karamojong people.
Kidepo Valley National Park
CNN in 2017 named Kidepo Valley National Park to be the Africa’s remotest park. And the park is known for being the True African Wilderness, with the widest scale of landscape view. Kidepo Valley is the only park in the wider northeastern region with the accompaniment of the three Matheniko Bokora and Pian-Upe game reserves that forms the Karamoja conservation corridor.
Accessing Kidepo Valley National Park by Aero Link on a scheduled flight there are three made routes of Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. However, on a safari to Kidepo Valley National Park there can be a chartered flight provided the flight reach the minimum passenger required of 07 passengers to operate.
Eastern Uganda
There is one national park within the eastern region, this is Mt. Elgon National Park. However, the region is a basket of adventures among which include the Nyero rock paintings, the Sipi waterfalls, the source of the World’s longest river, and a lot of considerations. When to take a flying safari including the eastern region. Both Mbale and Jinja cities have airstrips where you can charter your flight.
Western Uganda
The region is an adventure hub with numbers of tourist destinations. The region seats in the shadow of the Albertine rift and Lake Victoria. The region harbors Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kibale Forest National Park, Lake Mburo National Park, Semliki National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park.
Western Uganda is sub-divided into two that is southwestern Uganda with Bwindi and Mgahinga. On a luxury gorilla flying safari to southwestern Uganda there are mainly two airstrips.
The Kisoro airstrip and Kihihi airstrip, both these serve travelers/tourist on a safari Kigezi region. By road southwestern Uganda is the longest a day drive to the region. And a drive can last for about 8 to 9 hours, to escape the burden of longer day drives then consider either a scheduled or chartered flight right from Entebbe to Kisoro.
And also, there en-route flight to other regions and tourist destinations, from Kisoro your flight can connect either to Mweya at Queen or Murchison Falls.
Queen Elizabeth National Park can be access by air by either flying to Kasese which an hour drive to the park or Mweya airstrip within the park. From Mweya or Kasese you can access other destination still by flight like Bwindi and Murchison or even flying back to Entebbe.
Flying to Mweya or Kasese gives you access to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Mt. Rwenzori National Park and Kibale Forest National Park which is only 2 hours’ drive from Queen Elizabeth National Park and an hour from Kasese.
A round circuit Flying Safari
Luxury means comfort and best service nothing else, so can decide to make a chartered luxury flying safari in Uganda. It’s very possible to fly from all national parks in Uganda and all major cities of Uganda. The major cities in Uganda include Kampala, Mbarara, Gulu, Mbale, Soroti, Arua, Fort Portal, and Hoima.
