Primate Safaris
Contact us
T : +256 392 159 498
T : +9 1 9544 666 665
E : info@primatesafaris.com
Primate Safaris
Contact us
T : +256 392 159 498
T : +9 1 9544 666 665
E : info@primatesafaris.com
National Park
Pian Upe Game Reserve
About the Park
Uganda's largest savanna reserve doesn't announce itself loudly. It draws you in slowly through wide open plains that stretch toward the Kadam and Napak mountains, through the rustle of dry grass in a warm northeastern wind, through the quiet thrill of spotting a topi on a ridge at golden hour with no one else around for miles.
Covering over 2,000 square kilometers in the Karamoja sub-region, Pian Upe is Uganda's best kept wild secret. Where other destinations offer the familiar, Pian Upe offers the rare roan antelope, eland, ostrich, Jackson's hartebeest, Bright's gazelle, and one of the country's most significant topi populations, all moving freely across a landscape that feels genuinely untouched. Over 200 bird species inhabit the reserve, making it a quiet paradise for those who know where to look and how to listen.
This is not a place that performs for you. It is a place that simply is ancient, unhurried, and breathtakingly alive. The Pokot and Karamojong people have called this land home for generations, and their deep relationship with the territory adds a human warmth to the wilderness experience that you will not find anywhere else.
Come with curiosity. Leave with something harder to name a stillness, a sense of perspective, a memory of a sky so wide and so honest it recalibrates something inside you.
Wildlife
- Lion
- Leopard
- Elephant
- Cape Buffalo
- Giraffe
- Zebra
- Hyena
- Warthog
- Ostrich
- Secretary Bird
- Vulture
- Hornbill
- Crowned Crane
- Marabou Stork
- Impala
- Gazelle
- Eland
- Waterbuck
- Topi
- Hartebeest
- Dik-dik
- Bushbuck
- Baboon
- Mongoose
- Pangolin
- Aardvark
- Serval
- African Civet
- Jackal
- Porcupine
- Chameleon
- Monitor Lizard
- Python
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Weaver Bird