Distance from Entebbe Airport to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Distance from Entebbe Airport to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Distance from Entebbe Airport to Queen Elizabeth National Park; Queen Elizabeth national park is located in the western region of Uganda a short distance to the border of Uganda and the democratic republic of Congo (DRC). Queen Elizabeth national park has a spanning size 1978sq. km and covers the districts like, Kamwenge, Rukungiri, Rubirizi and Kasese where it is located on the map of Uganda.
Queen Elizabeth national park is located 410 km away from the Kampala capital city by road. However, there are other ways and different routes that can make Queen Elizabeth national park accessible to the entire visitors that wish to visit Queen Elizabeth national park. There are several ways you can reach Queen Elizabeth national park from Entebbe; by plane, car, self-drive car or bus. The distance and the transport fares depend on the means of transport you choose to use to take your from Entebbe international airport to Queen Elizabeth national park in the far west.
By plane, you can chose to fly from Entebbe international airport by plane to Kihihi Airport that is located in Ishasha south of Queen Elizabeth national park in Mitoma district. From Kihihi you can then use a car hire to take you to Kasese or the Ishasha gate to Queen Elizabeth national park. This route will only take about 2hrs to reach Queen Elizabeth national park. To note, by air, you can take a flight from Entebbe international airport – Kajjansi Air field to Either Kasese airport of Mweya Air field.
By car, you can as well reach Queen Elizabeth national park by car it can either be self-drive or special hire that will come and pick you up from the airport and drive to the bus park that will take about 3hours and 30minutes to reach Mbarara, and from Mbarara to Queen Elizabeth national park is just a 2hours drive.
Another alternative is bus, from Entebbe you can board to Kampala bus terminal where you board a bus to Kasese at affair price through Mubende, fort portal and then Kasese town, and then to queen Elizabeth national park main entrance at Katunguru. This route is a 7 (seven) hours and about 10 minutes to Queen Elizabeth national park.
A self-drive is an awesome adventure to Queen Elizabeth national park from Entebbe International Park. You can either use the Kampala –Mbarara- Kasese Road to Queen Elizabeth national park which takes approximately 6 hours, but you can also drive through Bushenyi to Rukungiri and enter from Ishasha gate to Queen Elizabeth national park.
The road transport is not only easy to use by the majority of the visitors but it is also so interesting. Along the journey to Queen Elizabeth national park you can get a chance to learn about the lifestyle of the local people along the route. And as you approach the western part of the country; rural area, you will start to experience the scenic view of the undulating hills on the roadsides and the vegetation cover from different areas.
Despite the beauty you can see along the journey by road, the air transport is still the fastest it is just about four hours to Queen Elizabeth national park with en route at Kihihi Airport (KHX) in Ishasha. And it is also not tiring compared to the road transport. But still you will miss a lot of interesting views along the road. So here the choice is yours to either indulge in a real African adventure along the journey, or save your time to do some evening activities when you reach Queen Elizabeth national park like the Kazinga launch cruise and perhaps the hot air balloon experience.
A trip prepared by a tour company is recommendable, it is indeed personalized and stress free. It is mainly recommended for the foreign non-residents because sometimes it is their first time to be in Uganda. A tour company vehicle can pick you from the airport in Entebbe at head on to your African safari in the Wild West.
