Covering 22,800km2 Boma is one of Africa’s largest wildlife reserves with a migration that compares in scale to that of the Serengeti and the famous Kruger and Ruaha parks. Between March and April and November to January, you can see as many as two million animals on the move. The majority of these are kob, […]
With a boat trip on the Sudd one of the largest wetlands in the world South Sudan’s stunning birdlife is best appreciated. More than 400 species of bird can be found here, including shoebills, great white pelicans and black-crowned cranes
The most easily accessible of South Sudan’s national parks, Nimule National Park was established under British rule in 1954 and the park extends 540km2 along the border with Uganda. With wildlife, moving freely back and forth it straddles the White Nile River. In this trip Crossing the river by boat to Opekoloe Island visitors are […]
A closer encounters with elephants and defassa waterbuck at Kidepo Game Reserve is a common phenomena Contiguous with the famous Kidepo National Park in Uganda across the border, it’s a sea of greenery that extends for more than 1,200 square kilometers across the savannah grasslands and gallery woods of the region.
The domed Catholic cathedral in Wau dates from 1913 and is a symbol of the important role that Christian missionaries have played in developing the country since the late 19th century. It is one of the largest churches in Sudan and has some attractive stone carving as well as a stained-glass window. South Sudan’s second […]
The Toposa Tribe: The Toposa are the principal ethnic group living around Kapoeta and are perhaps the most interesting in the whole country. Closely related to the Turkana of Kenya and the Karamojong of northern Uganda, they are herders with an economy based largely around livestock. They are also prolific cattle raiders, which has led […]
The Dinka Tribe: The Dinka people are a Nilotic group with no centralized political power but are rather divided themselves into independently interconnected clans. Most of the Dinka community resides in Sudan’s Anglo-Egyptian historical province of Bahr el Ghazal. The Dinka traditionally believe in one God known as Nhialic who temporarily possesses individuals and speaks […]
