Queen Elizabeth National Park is the most popular tourist destination in Uganda. The park's rich habitats, including vast savannahs, lush tropical forests, sparkling lakes, and fertile wetlands, make it the perfect habitat for classic game drive, ten primate species including chimpanzees and over 600 bird species.
Top Attractions @ Queen Elizabeth National Park
Game Drive
For wildlife enthusiasts, Queen Elizabeth National Park is christened as one of the best park and most protected areas for an African wildlife encounter, the Ishasha Sector offers abundant wildlife. The park is noted for its huge herds of buffalos, warthog, hippos, elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, reedbuck antelopes, and a great variety of small animals.
Chimpanzee Tracking
Also known as the valley of Apes, drained by River Kyambura, the magnificent Gorge is. The Gorge is one of the most scenic gorges on the tract of the East African Rift Valley. The gorge is among Uganda's most spectacular gorge and its abundant biodiversity, while on your amble through the gorge, you will be able to spot many primates namely Chimpanzee, olive baboons black and white colobus, red-tailed monkey. The way to the ravine is also a magnificent spot for picnics. The gorge is one of a kind giving you a great perspective to the guests down the forest offering great photography. You will absolutely love tracking Chimpanzees in the dramatic Kyambura Gorge biome.
Launch Trip
The Kazinga Channel is an expanse for many of the interesting animal species that inhabit the park, and taking a boat trip along it offers tourists the opportunity to cruise just meters away from hundreds of massive hippos and buffalos while elephants wander along the shoreline.
Lion tracking experience
This experience allows visitors to actively participate in tracking lions within Queen Elizabeth National Park, a few participants are allowed to track lions with the help of a well-trained ranger guide. When you meet the pride, you'll have a tremendous opportunity to see up-close a family of lions. Watch cubs play in the near vicinity of the resting adults. This experience is truly marvelous and a dream to many wildlife enthusiasts
Equator Experience
Most tourists who visit Queen Elizabeth National Park usually stopover at the equator for photography but when visit the Equator in Kasese (Queen Elizabeth National Park) tourists encounter the water experiments which are usually carried out at the Equator line, the northern hemisphere, and the southern hemisphere. At the Equator, you will witness no movement of any floating object, in the northern hemisphere, you will see a floating object put in water rotating clockwise, and in the southern hemisphere, you will see a floating object moving in an anti-clockwise direction. The most remarkable experience at the Equator takes place twice a year on 21 March and 23 September during the Equinox.
Birding
Queen Elizabeth National Park supports a remarkable 600 species of birds namely egret, flamingo, kingfisher, falcons, eagles, shoebill stork among others. Birding at the park is an incredible excursion as it has a variety of habitats that range from the lakeshore, swamp, grassland to lowland forest. Kindly contact Adyeri Creations Limited for information about African Wildlife Safari in the Pearl of Africa.
