ADS 002Q : 3 Days Queen Elizabeth Park

Lion stretching in Queen Elizabeth Park seen during game drive

Highlights:
-Mountains, Fresh water lakes and salt inland lakes, Marshland, broad savannah, wetlands, gallery, lowland forest, Over 550 species of birds,95 mammal species, over 100 species of butterflies, Chimpanzees, monkeys, baboon cliffs, bat caves
Queen Elizabeth National Park has a variety of wildlife.

The launch cruise along the Kazinga channel will definitely give you the opportunity to view these animals in their natural habitat. The number of Elephants in their natural habitat is really fascinating. The game drive in this park will certainly leave you excited! Queen Elizabeth National Park is also a birding paradise for birders as it hosts more than 600 species of birds.

Most notable of these are the rare shoebill stock, grey-headed kingfisher, Collard Pranticles, African Fish eagle, Great White and Pink-backed Pelicans, Common Stucco Heron, African Open-billed Stock, African Fish Eagle, Black Crake, African Jacana, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers.


Day 1:
Pick up from Kampala or Entebbe international Airport and transfer to Queen Elizabeth Park. We shall stop en route at the local drum shops at Mpambire; see the local fruit market, cross the equator line at Nabusanke.  Proceeding en route, expect to see the long curving horned cattle of Ankole.
Arriving in time for Lunch in Mbarara town, we shall thereafter proceed to the park. Less than 10km on our way to the park, there are chances to see elephants, lions, teaming with buffaloes, kobs, hyenas, warthogs, and birds.
We may pass by the Queen Elizabeth scenic craters and the baboon cliffs before checking in at the lodge.
Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge/Jacana Safari Lodge (High end) Or Mweya Hostel (budget).

Day 2:
After early morning breakfast at 6.30am we shall depart for our morning game drive in our car. A compact network of game viewing track starts from the channel drive a road running parallel to the northern shore of Kazinga channel. The most common mammals we are likely to see are Warthog, bushbuck and water bucks while elephants can be seen crossing the tracks .There is the Leopard track which may give us opportunity to see leopards and the Kasenyi plains will give us higher chances of encountering lions.
Return by Mid-day at the lodge for lunch at the hotel.
After lunch we shall take a 2 hour and 34km long Kazinga channel boat cruise, one of the most rewarding tour experiences in Queen Elizabeth Park  giving you the opportunity to approach within a few meters a multitude of yawning hippos, elephants teaming with egrets, yellow billed storks, Goliath heron, crocodiles buffaloes and the occasional leopards. The bird life on the water is fascinating. Expect to see dozens of water birds such as pied kingfisher and many bee-eaters
Return for dinner and overnight in the evening

Day 3:
After early breakfast, we shall go for either chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Wildlife reserve, or take a walk in the Maramagambo forest in search for chimpanzees and monkeys and also visit the bat caves.
Have lunch in Mbarara en route to Kampala or Entebbe airport
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