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Follow a western road loop through Nile and savanna country, primate forest, Rift Valley lakes, Bwindi's rainforest, and the gateway towns and communities that join them.
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Parks and wild places
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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi's Buhoma sector brings steep rainforest, mountain-gorilla habitat, and forest-edge communities into the western loop.
Gateway: Buhoma
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Kibale National Park
Kibale is the circuit's forest-and-primate anchor, reached through Fort Portal and mapped to Kanyanchu.
Gateway: Fort Portal
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Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo closes the wildlife sequence with a compact wetland, lake, woodland, and savanna landscape beside the western road corridor.
Gateway: Mbarara
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Murchison Falls National Park
The northern anchor of the circuit joins the Victoria Nile, Murchison Falls, savanna, woodland, and riverine forest.
Gateway: Masindi
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Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth is the water-and-savanna hinge between Kibale's forest and Bwindi's rainforest.
Gateway: Kasese
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Gateway Home Bases
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Safari gateway
Buhoma
Buhoma is the forest-edge gateway for Bwindi's northern sector on the route from Ishasha and Kihihi.
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Safari gateway
Entebbe
Entebbe is the international arrival and return gateway beside Lake Victoria.
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Safari gateway
Fort Portal
Fort Portal is the practical western gateway for Kibale and the crater-lake country around the Rwenzori foothills.
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Safari gateway
Kampala
Uganda's capital is the road-loop gateway for the Western Safari Circuit.
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Safari gateway
Kasese
Kasese is the Rift Valley and Rwenzori gateway on the road into Queen Elizabeth National Park.
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Safari gateway
Masindi
Masindi is the Bunyoro road gateway on the southern approach to Murchison Falls.
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Safari gateway
Mbarara
Mbarara is the western road hub that reconnects Bwindi with Lake Mburo and the return toward Entebbe and Kampala.
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