Planning a Trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park

The main highlight of Queen Elizabeth National Park is you can indulge in various game drive activities that will allow you to get up close and personal with the animals. The best time to enjoy the game drive is during morning hours where you can come across the most elusive of park’s fauna. Experienced guides will guide you throughout and give you knowledge about the abundance of wildlife and the entire region. While on your tour, you can spot elephants, lions, buffalos, hyenas, warthogs, leopards, giant forest hog to name a few.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the famous birding spots in Uganda where you can spot various bird species. The park is home to more than 600 birds and is the major highlight of the park. For all the enthusiastic bird watcher, the national park is a haven for everyone who wants to just spend their time amidst the nature and animals. You can spot bird species like Sedge warbles, Papyrus canary, the martial eagle, Pink backed Pelican, Yellow throated Cuckoo, and the Verreaux’s Eagle Owl and many others inside the park.

Apart from watching wildlife, you can choose to go for a boat cruise that takes place on the Kazinga channel. This is a long natural water channel that links to Lake Edward to Lake George. Attracting tourists from all walks of life, boat cruise has become one of the famous things to do in Queen National Park. While on your cruise, you can enjoy various sights and sounds that is heard from the rich aquatic life of the park. If you are lucky, you might see large hippopotamus taking dip in the water, fierce crocodile basking on the channel banks and lush greenery that will take your breath away.

Not every day you will see a lion climbing trees, but in the Ishasha sector of the national park, you will come across many of them on the top of the resting and relaxing. This portion of the park houses lions that are perched up on acacia and fig trees which is complete sight to behold. Apart from the amazing tree climbing lions, Ishasha sector is home to other variety of animals such as buffaloes, elephants, warthogs and antelopes which can be seen roaming around freely in the area

Home to abundance of chimpanzees, Queen Elizabeth National Park is famous for its chimpanzee tracking which has garnered tourists from all walks of life. The Kyambura Gorge inside the park is well known as the valley of apes and you can see variety of chimpanzees roaming around freely in their natural habitat. You can choose to go on a chimpanzee tracking tour where you will be escorted by professional guides who will tell you all about the place and the apes

Queen Elizabeth National Park is an excellent place where you can join hiking trails and explore the stunning landscape of the entire region. If you are a nature lover, you can indulge in hiking trails that will allow you to explore the entire region at your own pace. Explore places like Maramagambo Forest, Kyambura Gorge, and the Mweya Peninsula which is the best place to hike in Queen Elizabeth National Park.