10 most popular Tourist Attractions in Uganda

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    The lists provides the most visited places in Uganda for both local and international tourists throughout Uganda and from the world. A report made by the independent organization produced the most visited place in Uganda by hardrockmedia

 

      1.      Kampala City

Kampala City was named the highest visited place in Uganda with Tourists who visited the place for leisure only exceeding 1 million people in the year 2021 making it the most visited city in Uganda. Kampala attracted people because of its various tourist attraction and vast history and status in Uganda.

 

Murchison Falls second most popular Tourist attraction in Uganda

       2.      Murchison Falls National Park

Murchison National Park was named the second best tourist attraction in Uganda located in Masindi at the shore of Lake Albert with Bugungu Wildlife, Tangi gate side which are one of the most visited place in the park with over 568,000 people visiting the tourism centre last year.

 

      3.      Jinja City

Jinja city is the Thir most popular place visited in Uganda with Tourists exceeding 989,000 people in the year 2021 who came to discover the wide scope of tourist attraction in the East from the Dams in to their sources of the Nile in the Jinja , with hospitality industry accounting for over 60% of the local tourists who visited the place.

 

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      4.      Queen Elizabeth National Park

Queen Elizabeth national park is the fourth most popular Tourist attraction in Uganda receiving over 539,00 visitors to the park in 2021 with internal tourist accounting for over 39.8% of the number of people that visited the place.

 

      5.      Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is the fifth most popular Tourist attraction in Uganda located in Western Uganda in the Kigezi Region where the park was named one of the biggest rainforests in Uganda with it being impenetrate where it adapted its name.

 

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      6.      Fort Portal Uganda Tourism City

Fort Portal city which is the tourism city OF Uganda is the sixth most popular Tourist attraction in Uganda which received over 793,000 visitors throughout the year2021 accounting for over 10% of visitors in the Country Uganda who travel for leisure throughout the country.

 

     7.      Kibale National Park

With Chimpanzee trekking as none of its biggest activates Kibale National received over 321 tourist through 2021 which was one of the highest visited national parks in Uganda making it one of the most popular national parks and tourist attraction in Uganda with lakes such as Lake Nkuruba, Lake Nyabigere and Lake Nyinambuga.

 

      8.      Ssese Islands 

Ssese Islands are the 8tyh most popular tourist attraction in Uganda located on the Northwestern park of lake Victoria which is strategic right in the Centre near the capital Kampala. The Ssese Islands receive over 320,000 tourists in 2021 making it one of the most visited places in the country.

 

      9.      Lake Mburo National Park

Lake Mburo National park received over 279,000 tourist through the year 2021 which is the most for the national parks in Uganda making it one of the most visited national parks in the country due to its location in Kiruhura district in the Central Western region.

 

      10.   Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

Mgahinga Gorilla national located in the Kigezi region in the South Western Uganda was the 10th most popular tourist attraction in Uganda with over 267,000 Tourists in 2021 to January of 2022 with Gorilla Trekking being its biggest activities which attracted tourist throughout the world with international tourist accounting for  over41% of the tourists in the national park.

 

 

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