OVERVIEW

This three-day safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park will take you to Uganda's second-largest and busiest national park. Southwest Uganda, in districts of Rubirizi, Kasese, Kamwenge, and Rukungiri, is where Queen Elizabeth National Park. Your three-day Queen Elizabeth National Park safari will include a variety of activities, such as a game drive in Kasenyi Plains and a boat cruise on Kazinga Channel, where you can see a variety of wildlife animals, including elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards, waterbucks, bushbucks, Uganda kobs, warthogs, giant forest hogs, topis, hippos, and crocodiles, as well as bird species like cattle egret, Hadada Ibis, Marabou stork, raptors and among others.

TOUR SUMMARY

• Day 1: Pick up and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park.
• Day 2: Morning Game drive and Boat cruise.
• Day 3: Departure to Kampala.

DAY 1: Pick up and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park.

• On the first day of 3 days Queen Elizabeth Park safari. Depending on where you are in Kampala, your driver guide will pick you up, give you a briefing on your three days Queen Elizabeth safari, and then begin the trip, which will take you somewhere between 6 and 7 hours to drive. On the route, you will stop at the equator, which is a beautiful location for photographs. You will also pass through craft shops, so if you want to buy any handcrafted goods or works of art, the equator is a great place to do it. After leaving the equator, your adventure will continue with a second stopover at Igongo Cultural Centre for lunch on the way. Igongo Cultural Centre is a fantastic location that features amazing vistas of sculptures of humans and animals, a museum, a book shop, and more.
• After lunch, you will continue your drive via the towns of Mbarara and Bushenyi, where you will pass by tea plantations, before arriving in Queen Elizabeth National Park. As soon as you get there, you'll check in your lodge and go on an evening game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park's Ishasha sector. You can enjoy stunning views of the tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector as they lie down and relax in the fig tree branches while gazing down at the Uganda kobs grazing on the wide savannah plains. After the game drive you drive to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay.

DAY 2: Morning Game drive and Boat cruise.

• On the second day of 3 days Queen Elizabeth Park safari, wake up early in the morning and take breakfast. After breakfast, you'll meet your driver guide to travel to Kasenyi Plains for a morning game drive or lion tracking. You will see a variety of wildlife during game drive, including lions, leopards, elephants, Uganda kobs, waterbucks, buffaloes, bushbucks, hyenas, and bush pigs and among others. You will also see a variety of bird species, including the papyrus gonolek, little egret, white-backed night heron, yellow-throated cuckoo, red-chested sunbird, and white-winged warbler. You will drive to the lodge for lunch after the 4 to 5 hour-long morning game drive.
• You will meet your driver/guide after lunch, and you will then be transferred for the afternoon boat excursion. Kazinga channel, a piece of water between Lake George and Lake Edward, is where boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park is conducted. The 2-hour boat ride departs from the landing place next to luxury lodge Mweya Safari Lodge around 2:00 pm. Boat cruises are an exciting and adventurous activity on Kazinga Channel, where you can cruise close to animals like elephants, buffaloes, hippos, Nile crocodiles, waterbucks, which can be seen along the water's edge, and various water birds like the martial eagle, papyrus gonolek, pelicans, Egptian goose, African Jacana, African skimmers, cormorants, African spoonbills, fish eagles, and king fishers, among others.
• You will drive to Lake Katwe, a salt lake created by volcanic activity, after the boat cruise. You will be able to witness locals removing rock salt for sale from the main lake while on the Lake Katwe tour. If time permits, you may go travel the further two kilometres to Lake Munyanyange, where you can witness a variety of birds, including flamingos, sea gulls, black terns, pied avocets, and others. You will drive back to the lodge for dinner and the night after exploring the crater lakes.

DAY 3: Departure to Kampala.

• On the second day of 3 days Queen Elizabeth Park safari, wake up early in the morning and take breakfast. After a leisurely breakfast, you will get up, check out of the lodge and meet your driver guide for another early enroute morning game drive in the park. You'll get the chance to see some of the species you missed the day before on this morning's drive. After a three-hour game drive, you'll leave the park and begin the trip to Kampala. You will pass through tea plantations on the way and halt in Fort Portal for lunch. You will continue your journey via Mubende after lunch, arriving in Kampala in the evening. When you arrive, your driver-guide will drop you off anywhere that is convenient for you, including Entebbe International airport if you need to catch a flight or you will dropped at your hotel.