3 Days wildlife safari-Queen Elizabeth National Park
Touring probably Uganda’s largest game park is not an easy safari but on this 3 day wildlife tour you’ll have indeed seen everything that makes Queen Elizabeth Park unique and one of the most visited National Game parks in Uganda.
Queen Elizabeth Park boasts of open savannah, a section of protected forest reserves, backdrop views of the Rwenzori Mountains and so much more. Wildlife in the park include lions, warthogs, zebras, Rothschild giraffes, buffalos, elephants, hippos, crocodiles, antelopes, spotted hyenas, leopards, and others. Find more than 300 different birds, woodland, savannah and water endemics living in the park, some of which include Black Chested Eagle, the Swallow Tailed Bee Eaters, Open-Billed Stork, Pink pelicans, African Jacana, Malachite kingfishers, long tailed cormorants, Pied Kingfishers and many others. Bird watching on Kazinga channel is good in February and march which coincides with the season of migrant birds.
Kyambura gorge and reserve are part of Queen Elizabeth Park which borders the tropical montane forest called Maramagambo. In Kyambura forest are chimps, baboons, vervets, colobus monkeys, snakes (Rock-Python, Puffadders, Spitting Cobras, Gabon Rippers, Green Mambas e.tc), thousands of bats living in the caves and so much more.
Day 1: Travel to Queen Elizabeth Park
On finishing breakfast at your hotel, meet your escort tour guide and then set off to southern Uganda to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The 410 km journey is 5-6 hours with stop over for a few refreshments and snacks at the Equator point and by a hotel for pre-arranged lunch.
Drive by the scenic Mweya peninsula and rift valley escarpment into the gates of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Have a relaxing evening walk in the park or opt for a swim in the pristine swimming pool at your lodge.
There is accommodation of all tastes, Mweya Luxury safari lodge, Jacana safari lodge, Kingfisher lodge, hippo hill camp, and institute of Ecology Hostel for budget accommodation.
Day 2: Make an early morning game drive to find the elusive nocturnal predators such as the lions, spotted hyena, leopards and others. Return to the lodge for a ready breakfast meal. Take a walking safari into the open savannah with your camera and pair of binoculars and find other animals that visit the Kazinga channel during the dry season for water, small insects and birds.
Meet different schools of swimming hippos in the channel on the boat cruise, some buffalo linger in the shallow river banks, a tremendous variety of birds grace the grasses on the shores and also Nile crocodiles lie along the banks indistinct with the muddy earth in which they lay.
Day 3: Journey back to Kampala
For the morning, a game drive to either Kisenyi area to look for Lion prides and other wildlife like the Uganda Kob or to Ishasha sector further south for the famed tree climbing lions is good enough to bid farewell to the 3 day safari itinerary. Report back to the lodge for breakfast and then proceed on to Kampala having lunch en-route in a hotel or motel.
