Uganda Safari

Queen Elizabeth National Park is a medley of nature with widest variety of wildlife than in any national park in Uganda. It is the second largest national park next to Murchison falls national park; Queen Elizabeth national park spans over a wide area of 1978sq.km covering the districts of kasese, kamwenge, rubirizi and rukungiri in the western region of Uganda. Queen Elizabeth national park is also the most visited national parks in Uganda according to the tourism statistics.

Queen Elizabeth national park has 95 mammal species including africa’s big five; lion, leopard, hippo, elephants apart from the rhino. Queen Elizabeth national park has over 1000 elephants, over 3000 hippos and 2000 buffaloes and an enormous community of kobs seen in kasenyi plains during the big game drive. During the game drive you can stop warthogs, the huge forest hog, and duikers and lucky enough, you can find the hyenas feeding on the left over meal for the lion pride.

You can enjoy the trip in glorious kyambura gorge for chimpanzee trekking. The gorge has about 10 primate species but the chimpanzees stand at the climax. Kyambura gorge is a miracle of a beautiful rainforest in the vast savannah land of Queen Elizabeth national park; it is indeed a haven hidden in kyambura escarpment. During the chimp trekking you can also see the blue colobus monkeys, velvet monkeys, and the black and white monkeys among others. Kyambura gorge is also blessed with birds and beautiful butterflies; it is truly magical under the trees in kyambura gorge.

The boat cruise at kazinga channel gives you the glance of Queen Elizabeth national park is wild life; it is the experience you do not want to miss. Along the kazinga channel, you can get a chance to see almost all the game in queen Elizabeth national park like elephants, a number of hippo schools, crocodiles, a wide variety of bird life such as the francolins, pelicans, different king fishers, and the African fish eagle.

A queen Elizabeth safari is the only one that will introduce you to research as you join the researchers from the Uganda wildlife authority (UWA) during the experiential tourism activities like the lion tracking research in kasenyi plains, mongoose trekking at mweya peninsula, hippo census and perhaps bird counting. Queen Elizabeth national park gives the visitors to engage directly in the conservation by engaging in the research activities that are headed to confirming the conservation of the wildlife in Queen Elizabeth national park.

As you wide up your Ugandan safari, courtesy of queen Elizabeth National Park, you can unwind your tour with the community walk in the neighboring towns and fishing villages and, perhaps, the farmland in the buffer zones of Queen Elizabeth national park. You can get a chance to visit the owani women cooperative which is dedicated to growing the realest organic coffee in the world. The women of omwani do not use any artificial to their coffee plantation, plus, they go ahead and manually roast the coffee till it is finally ready for export and sale.

Queen Elizabeth national park is the real glance wild Africa with the best services and accommodation facilities like lodges that range from the lavish and expensive lodges, such as mweya and jacana safari lodges, to the standard budget accommodations and camping sites among others.