Wildlife-rich, dirt road drive through Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park (so named in the 1950s to commemorate a visit by the Queen)
The Ruwenzori Here are veiled wonders: East Africa’s Ruwenzori, also called the Mountains of the Moon. They hide their summit splendours behind an almost permanent mantle of cloud and it is only when veering winds tear back the curtain of mist that their snow-capped grandeur is revealed.
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These are the rolling hills and valleys of stunning Kisoro in southern bwindi. You have to see it to believe it! 🇺🇬
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natgeowild Video by @alexbraczkowski Two Uganda kob fight for territory and access to females at a mating ground in Kasenyi, Uganda. When not mating males will fight, chase and pose against other males to assert dominance and gain access to females. I shot this at 4x slower than real life to capture the dust and the horns of the kobs locking together.
natgeowild Video by @alexbraczkowski Turn your sound on for some hungry lion sounds! When lions feed it can get competitive and at times even fierce! @alexbraczkowski has been filming a new @natgeowild show on tree-climbing lions in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Many of the lions he sees are full of scars and scratches and you can see why in this video of a pride of 11 lions (three mothers with 8 cubs) feeding on a male Uganda kob which they've just killed. Although male kobs can weigh over 200 lbs, they don't last for more than one meal for this pride of lions and on this particular occasion Alex filmed them eating the whole carcass in just four hours! If you're wondering why the video has a weird purple color, it's because Alex is using a special infrared light. He's been doing this so he doesn't affect the lions when they are hunting (you can imagine how a hot white light will give away the position of a predator or worse blind the prey its trying to hunt!). Follow @alexbraczkowski and @natgeowild for more shots of lions and other big cats!
natgeowildJoin @alexbraczkowskifor an Instagram Story takeover! | Click on our profile picture to follow along! • Did you know that the lions of Ishasha, Uganda are one of only two populations of lions in the world which actively climb trees? Here are three members of a pride of lions which regularly climb the branches of large sycamore fig trees (Ficus sycamorus). Some think this behavior is to avoid the irritating tsetse flies which bite them, others think it's to keep cool in the heat of the day. Maybe they just like to hang out and look over their vast territory. Why do you think lions climb trees in Uganda?
This lake in Jinja, Uganda represents the farthest, original source of the Nile River.
- natgeotravel Video by @ronan_donovan // The Virunga Massif as seen from the Rwandan side. This string of volcanoes that straddle the borders of Rwanda, DRC and Uganda are home to the famous Mountain Gorillas that Dian Fossey first studied 50 years ago. Learn more in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine as we celebrate 50 years of conserving these magnificent giant apes. Hop on over to @ronan_donovan and check out his Instagram story about climbing these volcanoes in search of the Mountain Gorillas.
Awesome wildlife expedition through Uganda
In 2016, we went a short overland trip in East Africa. We were truly amazed by the warmth and openness of the people. We visited Kigali, Bwindi, Queen Elisabeth National Park, Bunyoni and Kivu. We hope you enjoy this video/timelapse, always nice to hear your comments.
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The Crater Lakes of Uganda offer extraordinary hiking in places near Fort Portal in Western Uganda, including the famous “Top of the World Hike” that leads travelers to several of these lakes through villages and tea plantations with the tallest African Mountain range-the Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon- in the distance. A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater and arrange as the created depression, within the crater rim, is filled with water from precipitation, groundwater circulation, or melted ice.
Uganda’s crater lakes were formed 8 to 10,000 years ago, young on the spectrum of Earth’s volcanic formations, through violent volcanic activity, just as all other crater lakes. Explosion craters did not build cones as volcanoes do, but blew ash and rock far and wide. Fire and brimstone still erupted from these explosion craters as recently as 2000 BC while the Pyramids in Egypt were being built, but today only the serene remnants remain for our viewing pleasure.
Other magnificent crater lakes across the world include the turquoise and deep blue Lake Pinatubo of the Phillippines formed after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, the deep and concaved Mount Aso crater lake in Japan, Costa Rica’s bright green Irazu crater lake, Nicaragua’s Maderas murky crater lake on Ometepe Island surrounded by vivid, lush greenery, and one of the clearest lakes in the world and deepest in the United States, Crater Lake, in Oregon.
Due to their unstable environments, some crater lakes only exist sporadically. While most crater lakes are majestically picturesque, for instance neon lagoons and glowing bodies of water amongst ice-capped mountains and wildflowers or thickly wooded surroundings like those of Uganda, a visual of oasis or paradise, they can also be deadly due to gas discharges and acidity, with some lakes still secreting sulphurous smells. CK
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