Top Gorilla habitat, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and five other national parks in Uganda have been awarded Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence 2015.
The parks were recognized for their distinguished customer service, diversified products, scenic beauty, professional guiding and porter services according to a Uganda Wildlife Authority press release.
Trip Advisor is the world’s largest travel site on which visitors to various parks and destinations make reviews on their safari experiences.
Bordering Kanungu, Kabale and Kisoro districts in south western Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has now won this accolade for the fifth time in a row.
The other national parks are Murchison Falls National Park in northern region, Kibale Forest National Park in western Uganda, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Lake Mburo National Park and Rwenzori Mountains National Park which has won it for the first time.
Lake Mburo, which had 15 giraffes translocated to it from Murchison Falls, has won the Trip Advisor certificate for the second time in a row. Murchison Falls National Park has won it twice while Queen Elizabeth and Kibale park were recognized for the third time in a row.
According to the Uganda Wildlife Authority Public Relations Manager Jossy Muhangi, the parks were lauded for their cleanliness without littered trails and tracks, proximity to high standard hotels and other accommodation facilities, professionalism among the staff, quality customer care among others.
“One of the reviewers for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park remarked “the staff/guides are so knowledgeable and the porters extremely helpful,” Muhangi said.
Another visitor commented, “hiking to track the mountain gorillas is a bit strenuous but well worth it.” Others seemed to have a consensus that trekking gorillas in a natural UNESCO heritage site makes Bwindi a special experience.
Reviewers were impressed by diversified products like the Top of falls Trail in Murchison Falls National Park which offers visitors various viewing points for the great water- falls as the Nile plunges into a forty metre abyss at a narrow gorge.
Reviewers nodded the scenic views and the peaks in the Rwenzoris, the pristine environment in Kibale forest while tracking chimpanzees, the scenic landscape of Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake Mburo expansive grasslands with a diversity of mammal and bird species.