The President of Uganda Promotes Tourisim In UK.

The President of Uganda Promotes Tourisim In UK.

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni not so long ago officially opened his Presidential program for Sustainable Tourism (PRESTO) in the capital of England London in an effort to draw a larger number of tourists to Uganda than they currently are. At the ceremony, there were a number of tour operators, numerous prospective investors, so many business people, with Ugandans and people from other countries in African in the Diaspora. The presentation was intended to reveal Uganda’s tourism potentials by using posters and pictures of different wildlife, flora and fauna plus the cultural tradition especially the rich Karamanjong culture. During the exhibition, Ugandan coffee and tea was served to the guests at Central hall Westminster. The PRESTO launch comes after the Brussels Expo Holiday Fair in Belgium at the beginning of this month in which Uganda apart.
The minister of Tourism ,Wildlife and Heriatge  Prof Ephraim Kamuntu together with his Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Patrick Mugoya also attended the PRESTO’s official opening. The president  added that the tourism sector is very important sector in the economy of Uganda given the fact it is a source of employment of  number of people in and at the same time a large sum of foreign exchange.
Yeweri Museveni precisely had to launch his program from London because UK is the major source of tourists that come to Uganda while in 2011 Uganda was honored and identified as the best Tourism Destination for this year 2012and was selected by the Lonely Planet. He added that Mountain Ruwenzori national park is one of the best hiking places in the whole of Africa and in the world at large; Virunga Volcanoes is one place that one visits in this year and other 20 selected places that one has got not to miss out. Meanwhile the Bwindi Impenetrable forest which popular because of the existing mountain gorillas selected as best birding place in Africa.
Murchison Falls National Park was among the best 10 birding places in Africa while the popular tree-climbing lions in Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth national park were selected as the photos of the month in the National Geographic magazine.

In The Amboseli National Park, Elephants Gather as female deliver

In The Amboseli National Park, Elephants Gather as female deliver

A huge herd of elephants took take a role of being body guards for a particular female while it gave birth to its young to protect her from lions and hyenas which were most like to attack it and cause harm to it and its young one.  This happened in the Amboseli National Park which is situated in Kenya at the beginning of this very month.

Wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio was the one who observed the strange behavior amongst these elephants while on his early morning drive and he was amazed by all that they were doing just to keep the female safe from predators.  They were all round the female, closed any little gap between them in an effort to prevent any carnivorous animal from seeing what was going on. A few minutes after the calf was born, it was hanging on to the tusk of its mother with its trunk as it tried to get on its feet for the very first time.

A raiding hyena had to find it way away from the herd after the elephants stamped and throw dust into the air to scare it way. They pulled out grass and soil throwing it all over the area something that Paolo Torchio thinks is done just to cover the smell of the blood as well as the placenta and therefore prevent the predators like hyenas and lions from attacking; he also added that this was atypical firm flock. They set up a very tough wall using muscles and tusks which could definitely scare any other animal. They usually do this especially during an attack from predators like lions and while there is a female that is giving birth after a period of 22 months and therefore needs protection from its fellows.

The Amboseli National Park is about 3,100 square miles covering parts of Kenya at the boarder of Kenya-Tanzania and it is very well known for being the greatest place in Africa where you can find free-ranging elephants. Paolo also said that this was amazing to him because it very rare to get a chance to see an elephant give birth in the wild since it is so hard to know the real time when it will give birth.

This was a nick  experience  to see the kind of unity that the elephant have amongst themselves and willingness to protect one another as animals of the same family.