Rubondo Island National Park
The Rubondo Island national park is located on an island in the middle of Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world. The island is uninhabited and 90% of the island is still forested. Here you can find native wildlife, such as hippos, crocodiles, antelopes and elephants and giraffes. Birds are also omnipresent on the island and make the Rubondo Island national park an insider tip for ornithologists.
Rubondo Island offers many deserted sandy beaches that border directly on the forest. Here you will find bushbucks, which move smoothly and silently through the labyrinth of tamarind, palm trees and sycamore figs.
The shaggy-coated aquatic sitatunga, which lives by the water, with its distinct webbed feet, can be observed particularly well here. Savory tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) are the main food of the yellow-spotted otters that hunt around the island’s rocky bays, while the predatory Nile perch, weighing up to 100 kg, is a tempting challenge for hungry fishermen in Rubondo Island national park.
Wild jasmine and numerous colorful orchid species grow in the forest, from which a mysterious potpourri of scents flows. 90% percent of the park is considered to be forest.
There are also open grasslands and papyrus groves by the lake. Indigenous wild animals such as hippos, crocodiles, vervet monkeys, genets, dikdiks and mongooses share their habitat with the chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys, elephants and giraffes that have subsequently settled here. The remoteness of this national park allows them to develop freely.
Activities
Rubondo Island is a haven for the endangered chimpanzee.
Other common animals include:
- Black and white colobus monkeys,
- Elephants,
- Giraffes,
- Antelopes,
- Hippos, Crocodiles
- Many bird species, tilapia fish and hippopotamus.
