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Bahr el Jebel is the Arabic name for the White Nile that flows through Northern Uganda, into Southern Sudan and onward to the Mediterranean Sea. Long before Europeans arrived and changed the river's name it was known as the Bahr el Jebel. This is where our safaris take place.

Our concept is to use vehicle ground transport only when necessary. We instead use aircraft and river boats to make a more enjoyable safari for you. The time used in traveling between areas on safari by vehicle can waste over 50% of your vacation time. Due to the location of our camp it is actually cheaper to fly than to drive, also saving money on your safari package.

Our base in Uganda is our Deluxe Tented Safari camp on the banks of the River Nile (Bahr el Jebel) in Northern Uganda. Daily flights from Entebbe International Airport to Arua Airport (1 hour drive from the camp) take our clients in and out of the safari area, eliminating a boring 15 hour roundtrip vehicle drive.

From the camp, high speed swamp boats, built in the Florida everglades, take clients to see animals along the river, into Murchison Falls National Park, Ajai Game Reserve, East Madi Game Reserve, Otzi Forest, Theordore Roosevelt's 1910 Rhino camp, Emin Pasha's 1885 Wadelai Fort, the area where the movie "The African Queen" was filmed and up the Nile to Nimule National Park on the Southern Sudan border.

From the camp, via safari 4x4 vehicle, we also visit Budongo forest (within Murchison Falls National Park system) to see habituated groups of chimpanzees and Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to see reintroduced white rhinos. On July 2nd, 2009 the first Rhino was born at Zwia. It has been 30 years since a Rhino calf has been born in Uganda.

Hippos, crocs, fisherman in dug-out canoes, river villages and incredible bird life all appear as you glide along the river in a high speed  swamp boat. On the river banks elephants, giraffe, nile buffalo, kob, hartebeest, oribi, waterbuck, warthog come down to drink.

The Nile River in this area has no rapids, but has a swift current traveling north. All along this stretch of the Nile are huge papyrus swamps, secondary river channels, coves, lagoons and a maze of hidden water ways to explore by swamp boat.

Bahr el Jebel or Bahr al Jabal is classic Arabic for literally "The Sea of the Mountains". This refers to the giant swamp (the size of England) known as the Sudd, that the Bahr el Jebel flows into. In Juba Arabic (the Arabic of Southern Sudan) Bahr el Jebel means "The River of the Mountains".

Swamp Airboat, driven by an aircraft prop, that skims over the surface of the River Nile at high speed. Our company uses these boats to carry you to areas of wildlife viewing and explore the labyrinth of water ways on the River Nile. From Lake Albert in Uganda and into Southern Sudan our boats will operate.