Kidepo River is a seasonal river along the Kidepo Valley in the Karamoja region of Uganda, this river traverse the district of Kabongo and flows its water in White Nile of south Sudan. The Kidepo River is always flows during the rainy season in months of April to May and September to November where animals gather and drink water and sometimes they disperse from the valleys, moving to higher and drier ground where they are not so easily seen.
During the rainy season, even if you decide to see it from far, the side of calm water gives you the reason to cool your body no matter the weather. As the tradition is with the Uganda water bodies Kidepo River is surrounded with savanna vegetation this include grass, bushes, trees and medicinal plants including acacia tree this grows both side they feed on Kidepo River. Over the year, shortage of surface water implies that less wildlife is seen within river, although it is still definitely worth the drive to go to the dried out Kidepo River to walk along its 50 meter wide river bed comprised of white sand in between the banks blanketed with borassus palms.
The river is located 11 kilometres past the Kanangorok Hot Springs along the Sudan border. It is a marvelous place to sit down and observe the mountains far past the frontier. Kidepo drives its name from its season river called Kidepo, the word Kidepo in Karamojong local diorite meaning picking up something from down, and this valley was frequented by people travelling to collect fallen borassus fruits to use for fermenting when making palm beer. The magnificent Kidepo river valley dominated by Borassus palm forest can be viewed by interested visitors as describe Kidepo Valley Nation Park as conservation on a large piece of land on its based.
Kidepo Valley National Park is Park like no other filled with almost 100% of Uganda’s wildlife bit animals, flora or the wild experience. The National Park is in north eastern part of Uganda particularly in Kabongo district, a trip to Kidepo is either by road transport or by air whichever way you decided to cheer be assured of the greatest experience. The journey set for 12 hours from Kampala the Uganda capital city to Karamoja region in north eastern part of Uganda of about 700km forms, it what you must get ready for in order to meet the magnificent Kidepo River.
Activities in Kidepo Valley National Park
Kidepo Valley National Park has exciting tourism activities in the wilderness of this area include game drive, nature walks, birding and hiking, culture visit and so on all this will leave you wondering the beauty of Kidepo Valley National Park and making it third most beautiful Park according the CNN ranking in 2013. Visiting Kidepo Valley National Park makes it more adventurous as you ties up with other National Parks in Uganda to make your safari unforgettable, such National Parks includes Murchison falls National Park the most visited Park in Uganda, Queen Elizabeth National Park the most popular National Park in Uganda, Kibale National the home of 13 primates including chimpanzees, red tail monkey and black and white Columbus and so on. Finally you can’t miss out visiting the home of over half of the world remaining mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.