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Best Safari Jeeps to use on a Family Holiday in Uganda.

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Uganda is one of the best recommended and exciting destinations to go in the African continent suitable for group and family holidays of a lifetime granting opportunities for different exciting activities performed including the mostly wanted Mountain Gorilla trekking.

Adventurous activities like Chimpanzee tracking, Golden monkey tracking, mountain hiking, launch trip cruising, mountain biking, white water rafting, bungee jumping, zip lining, and more.

Other activities performed include game driving, quad biking, Batwa cultural experience, fishing, Bird watching, Nature walks, Gorge walk and more.

This amazing destination is geographically located in the Eastern part of the African continent sharing borders with Kenya in the East, Democratic Republic of Congo in the West, Rwanda in the South west, Tanzania in the South and South Sudan in the North.

It’s characterized with both Mountainous and flat areas, with the mountainous areas being characterized mostly in the Western part of Uganda, Central, Eastern and Northern Uganda is more of flat areas.

It usually experiences two seasons including dry seasons and rainy seasons, Central part and western part of Uganda receives high precipitation as recorded while Northern Uganda is dominated by dry seasons characterized with high temperatures, rainfall also occurs during some months but at a low rate.

Uganda usually receives huge numbers of tourists from different countries of the World mainly because of the major key attracting factors which include ease of accessibility, favourable climatic conditions, available good service providers, wide range of different attractions and exciting places, stable financial status and stable security.

How to get there? All visitors to Uganda, access it by air transport means arriving in at Entebbe international airport which is located in the south eastern part of Uganda just 37km southwest of Uganda’s capital city “Kampala”.

To be issued with entry permission to Uganda you must present three required documents which include valid passport, valid yellow fever vaccination card and entry visa which costs $50 USD per person. A passport is considered valid when it’s still six months or more to its expiration date.

Uganda is recorded with different exciting places to go including National parks, Sanctuaries, Game reserves, cultural sites, major towns, forest reserves, and more.

Some of Uganda National Parks include Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kidepo Valley National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and Mgahinga Gorilla National park, Lake Mburo National Park, Semliki Valley National Park, Kibale Forest National Park, Mountain Rwenzori National Park and Mountain Elgon National Park.

Currently travellers are exploring Uganda by two options including hiring a Car and go self driving or arrange customized Safaris and tours with a local tour operator, therefore willing to explore Uganda as a group listed below are the best recommended jeeps to choose from comfortably provided by 4×4 Car Hire Uganda.

Land Cruisers.

This is a stable jeep manufactured by Toyota a popular Japanese car manufacturing company, they are distinguished by five doors and eight seating capacity features.

They are manufactured in two modes including four wheel drives and two wheel drives with automatic transmission or manual transmission.

These jeeps are manufactured with eight seating capacity but according to tourism standards, these jeeps are provided accommodating only four people including the driver such that every client is seated next to a window exposed to long distance sighting of different Wildlife species and other attractions within range.

Different types of Land cruisers are provided including Land Cruiser Prado, Land Cruiser Prado TX, Land Cruiser Prado TZ, Land Cruiser V8 and more all characterized with pop up roof favoring long distance sighting of different Wildlife species particularly Wild animals.

Safari Vans.

These jeeps belong to fourth generation of hiace range also manufactured by the Japanese popular company “Toyota”. They are distinguished by four doors and seven, eight, nine and ten seating capacity features ranked to be very suitable for group tours.

They are manufactured in two modes including four wheel drives and two wheel drives with automatic mode of operation or manual mode of operation, these jeeps are usually supplied for tailor made or Self drive safaris in Uganda by 4×4 Car Hire Uganda with pop up roof mostly especially when you are interested in doing several game drives in some of Uganda’s major National Parks like Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and more.

Super Customs.

These also belong to the hiace range, are characterized with four door and eight seating capacity features, its seats rotate into different directions. They are also manufactured in two modes including four wheel drives and two wheel drives with manual transmission system or automatic transmission system.

But always for Safaris in Uganda, 4×4 wheels drive Safari jeeps are recommended, these jeeps are not usually supplied for self drive but rather provided with a driver.

Safari Cruiser Extended.

This is a comfortable Safari Jeep used in Uganda for Safaris, it’s distinguished by four doors and seven or eight seating capacity features.

These jeeps are referred to as self contained jeeps because are provided with a fridge inside, cooler boxes, sockets for charging your phones, tabs, laptops and other electronic devices. Only four wheel drive jeeps with pop up roof are provided for Safaris in Uganda.

Toyota Coaster bus.

These jeeps are mainly provided for group tours in Uganda and accommodate about thirty people suitable for Wild life Safaris, these jeeps are not characterized with pop up roof but suitable for long distance sighting of different Wildlife species through use of windows.

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