Queen Elizabeth Naztional Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park is understandably Uganda’s most popular tourist destination. The park’s diverse ecosystems, which include sprawling savanna, shady, humid forests, sparkling lakes and fertile wetlands, make it the ideal habitat for classic big game, ten primate species including chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds. This park, 2.056 kms, is located in the South of the Rwenzori Mountains, surrounding Congo and including two lakes, George and Edward, which are joined by the Kazinga Channel.
Species
Queen Elizabeth National Park registers boastfully a number of animals, including 95 mammal species (among them elephants, lions, leopards, kobs, buffaloes, jackals, spotted hyenas) and 10 primate species, like chimpanzees, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus, olive baboons. The listing of birds is of 606 species entered, perhaps the gamiest in any African National Park and in the world.
Activities
Launch trip from Mweya on Kazinga Channel for a marvellous wildlife feel: await to see hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes, elephants, bushbucks, warthog and a lot of water birds species. Game drives in Kasenyi Plans and in Ishasha, looking for the veritable lions climbing the fig’s trees. “Chimp tracking” in Kyambura Gorge and bird watching safaris in Maramagambo Forest.