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Table of Content

PART ONE: THE ALBERTINE RIFT VALLEY

  • Introduction
  • Setting the scene: A journey through the Rift Valley
  • Virunga volcanoes
  • The QENP rift: Lakes Edward and George
  • Mpanga Gorge
  • Semliki Valley
  • Fort Portal and the Kijura Escarpment
  • Lake Albert
  • Murchison Falls
  • Delta Point
  • Lake Victoria and the Source of the Nile

PART TWO: A HISTORY OF THE RIFT

  • A Prehistory: The Rift and the River
  • Earch Moving - Still in Progress
  • A Human Prehistory
  • Recent Times
  • The People of the Rift
  • The First Tourists
  • A Conservation History

PART THREE: PARKS & WILDLIFE RESERVES

QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
  • Introdution
  • Wildlife & Habitats
  • Around the Park: A Tour of QENP
    1. Mweya Peninsula...the heart of the park
    2. Kazinga Channel
    3. Katwe Explosion Craters
    4. dfdf
    5. Katwe and Pelican Point
    6. Kasenyi
    7. Shoebill Swamp
    8. Kyambura Gorge
    9. Kyambura Wildlife Reserve
    10. Mpanga Falls
    11. Maramagambo Forest
    12. Kigezi Wildlife Reserve
    13. Ishasha
SEMLIKI NATIONAL PARK
  • A Tour of Semliki
TORO-SEMLIKI WILDLIFE RESERVE
KABWOYA WILDLIFE RESERVE

APPENDIX ONE: A BEGINNER’S BIRDLIST
APPENDIX TWO: LARGE ANIMALS
APPENDIX THREE: FURTHER INFORMATION

Maps

The Albertine Rift Valley
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Western and Eastern rift valleys
Ugandan national parks
Virungas
Lake Edward
Toro and Semliki Valley
Lake Albert - page
Rift Valley drainage
The First Tourists
Mweya Peninsula (QENP)
Ishasha (QENP)
Semliki National Park and Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve
Kazinga Game Tracks (QENP)
Central Queen Elizabeth National Park