Wildlife Tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park Guide & Packages

Wildlife Tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park offer the best game viewing experience in Uganda. Guided wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park allow you to explore the Park’s diverse wildlife in their different habitats. Queen Elizabeth Park is most popular for wildlife such as elephants, hippos, cape buffaloes, lions, including the tree climbing, Nile crocodiles, leopards, Uganda Kobs, spotted hyenas, and over 620 bird species.

The prime sectors to explore on wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park include Ishasha sector, Kasenyi sector, Mweya Peninsula, Kyambura Gorge, Kazinga Channel, Katwe-Kikorongo, and Maramagambo Forest.

The Ishasha sector lies in the southwestern side of Queen Elizabeth National Park and is most popular for captivating wildlife encounters, especially for the tree-climbing lions. Ishasha features fig trees where tree-climbing lions can easily be spotted, relaxed. It is a unique sector, together with Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park, to find this diverse wildlife.

Besides tree-climbing lions, Ishasha is also famous for bird sightings, including the broad-billed rollers, Ross’s turacos, African crowned eagles, black-bellied bustards, yellow-billed oxpeckers, white headed barbets, helmeted guineafowl, stripped kingfishers, and more.

Kasenyi sector in the Northern section of Queen Elizabeth National Park. The sector is largely a savanna grassland dominated sector and offers amazing game viewing opportunities.

Diverse species to find along Kasenyi Plains include lions, elephants, bush bucks, buffaloes, Uganda Kobs, and birds such as grey-capped warblers, yellow-throated long crow, martial eagle, white-tailed lark, red-throated spurfowl, black bellied bustards, and palmnut vulture, etc.

Kyambura Gorge

Kyambura Gorge (The Valley of Apes) is located in the Eastern part of the Park, and offers unforgettable chimpanzee trekking. The prime attractions to explore in Kyambura include the red-tailed monkeys, olive baboons, vervet monkeys, and black and white colobus monkeys.

The birds of Kyambura Gorge include Hartlaub’s duck, blue-headed bee-eaters, African fin-foot, Ugandan woodland-warblers, martial eagle, striated heron, African skimmers, joyful greenbul, and more.

Mweya Peninsular

Lying in the Northern bank of the Kazinga Channel, a natural channel that links Lake Edward and George. At the Mweya Peninsula, expect to engage in boat or launch cruises, game drives, birding, and guided walks. Boat tours are offered on the Kazinga channel, and you can participate during the morning or afternoon sessions.

On a boat tour, you have a chance to spot hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks, Uganda Kobs, buffaloes, birds such as swamp nightjars, pygmy kingfishers, and Diederik cuckoos.

Maramagambo

The Maramagambo Forest shelters over 7 primate species and other species. This rainforest lies in Bushenyi District, western Uganda. It is inhabited by baboons, chimpanzees, bush babies, blue monkeys, pottos, and birds such as the red-tailed bristle, forest flycatchers, Rwenzori turacos, black headed batis, and more.

What to expect on wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park

Game drives

Using a 4×4 safari car, expect to uncover the abundant wildlife in their diverse habitats. A guided game drive offers a perfect option to experience the best of wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Diversity of savanna dwellers and birds awaits you to explore.

Launch or boat tours

Boat cruise tours offer an amazing option to experience unmatched wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Aquatic species to be spotted on a guided boat or launch cruise trips include Nile crocodiles, hippos, and birds.

The Kazinga channel is where the launch tours are enjoyed and is largely a natural channel stretch of about 40 km. Diverse water birds to identify include pink-backed pelicans, saddle-billed storks, kingfishers, fish eagle, and many others.

Why book wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park?

1. Get a chance to encounter Africa’s unique tree-climbing lions along the Ishasha sector.
2. Explore over 620 bird species in the diverse habitats.
3. Experience the unforgettable Kazinga Channel launch excursion.
4. Queen Elizabeth National Park is a special Biosphere Reserve.

Places to Stay on Wildlife Tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park

On Queen Elizabeth National Park wildlife safari adventure, you can choose to stay in luxury, midrange, or budget. The luxury accommodation choices include Kingfisher Lodge, Mweya Safari Lodge, Ishasha Wilderness Camp, Kyambura Gorge Lodge, Jacana Safari Lodge, Elephant Plains Lodge, Mazike Valley Lodge, and Enganzi Game Lodge.

Midrange Lodges and Camps include Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge, Buffalo Safari Lodge, Bulbul Safari Lodge, and budget lodging options include Pumba Safari Lodge, Engiri Game Lodge, Simba Tented Camp, Tembo Budget Safari Lodge, Enjojo Lodge, and others.

The Best Time for Wildlife Tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park

Wildlife safari tours in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park are best enjoyed during the peak dry season, which is from June to September or around December to February. These are the peak dry months, a period when the Park records little or no rainfall. The Park is best explored for game drives, chimpanzee trekking, and nature walking excursions in the dry season, unlike during the wet or rainy season.

The two wet (rainy) seasons begin from March to May and from October to November, the months of the year when heavy rains are recorded in most parts of the Queen Elizabeth National Park. But they are the months when the Park can have lush green vegetation cover and also an abundant food supply for the mammals that depend on the plant life.

Getting to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Queen Elizabeth National Park is approximately 410 km, and getting there requires a 7-8 hour drive. The available route options include the Kampala-Masaka-Mbarara-Bushenyi-Kasese or travel from along the Kampala-Mubende-Fort Portal City-Kasese route. Access to Queen Elizabeth National Park is also possible by flight, involving departure from the Entebbe International Airport to Kasese Airstrip.

Customized Uganda Wildlife Safari Packages to Queen Elizabeth National Park

The 3 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park wildlife safari tour. This customized itinerary includes game drives, a boat cruise, and an Equator crossing photography experience. You can use the first day to transfer to the park, and en route, you can make a stopover at the Equator crossing location. Luckily, the two routes to Queen Elizabeth National Park all have options of stopping at the Equator crossing.

4 Days Queen Elizabeth Wildlife Safari –the best wildlife safari package for you to experience a game drive, boat cruise, and chimpanzee trekking, plus Equator crossing. You can explore the Kasenyi, Kazinga Channel, and Kyambura Gorge.

5 Days Queen Elizabeth and Kibale –You can book a combined wildlife and chimpanzee itinerary like this one and explore chimpanzees in Kibale National Park and wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park. You can also pay a visit to Bigodi Wetland for exceptional community tourism experiences. Bigodi is just annexed to Kibale Forest National Park, home to over 13 primates, which also accounts for about 1500 chimpanzees.

5 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi gorilla trekking. A combined gorilla and wildlife tour can also be arranged, targeting to explore the savanna wildlife and mountain gorillas in the wild. Arrangements such as these are possible with Flawless Adventure Planners Limited.

Conclusively, wildlife tours in Queen Elizabeth National Park offer a unique opportunity for you to explore the Big game species, birds, and many other animals. On a wildlife tour, expect to indulge in the numerous experiences, including game drives, a launch or boat cruise, as you explore diverse tourist attractions. Book with us the best wildlife tours to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, and get a rewarding game viewing with Big cats.