Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has been listed among the 25 of the world’s most beautiful places by the CNN.
On 8th March 2023, the CNN released its round up of the most beautiful places in the world, and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest topped the list.
The destinations have been rated as most spectacular, full of hidden and overt beauty by the CNN and it is no surprise that Uganda made it to the list.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a UNESCO world heritage site in south western Uganda. It is an ancient rain forest that dates back about 25000 years ago.
It protects almost half of the world’s remaining population of mountain gorillas, great apes that are endemic to Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The park is a hotspot for travelers looking to gorilla trekking in Africa and every year thousands of travelers make it to the Kigezi region of Uganda for meet up with the great apes in their natural habitat.
At the beginning of the year, the same US television channel (CNN) named Uganda among the best destinations to visit in 2023.
Only two other African destinations made it to the list of the 25 most beautiful places to visit in the world and these are Samburu National Park of Kenya and Mount Toubkal of Morocco.
Other destinations on the list are;
- Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
- Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
- El Nido, Philippines
- Rotorua, New Zealand
- Kata Tjuta, Australia
- The Maldives
- Petra, Jordan
- Atacama Desert, Chile
- Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
- Ciudad Perdida, Colombia
- Dominica
- Svalbard, Norway
- Lake Bled, Slovenia
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Positano, Italy
- Lake District, UK
- Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
- Denali National Park, Alaska
- Vancouver Island, Canada
- Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
- Badlands, South Dakota
- Monument Valley, Utah
