3 Day Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari

This 3 day Uganda wildlife safari takes you to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda’s second largest national park, with plenty of wildlife, birds and primates. This park also has spectacular sceneries including Crater Lakes and rolling savannah plains overlooking the snow capped Ruwenzori Mountain ranges. You will enjoy game drives, a boat cruise and trek the chimpanzees.

Safari Highlights

Equator experience

Royal drum making tradition

Game drive

Boat cruise on Kazinga channel

Chimp tracking

 Safari Itinerary

You will depart Kampala in the morning after breakfast and travel westwards through Uganda’s beautiful green countryside to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. The journey will take 6-7 hours with stopovers at areas of tourist attraction such as the Royal Drum makers’ village and the Equator for an opportunity to stand in two hemispheres at the same time. You will continue through the savannah grasslands with lots of banana plantations and several herds of local long horned Ankole cattle endemic to this part of the country. You will get to Queen Elizabeth National Park in the evening. Dinner and overnight will be at the lodge reserved for you.

You will set off early (about 6.30am) for a morning game drive, an awesome experience to spot the animals in natural habitats. Expect to see the famous Big Five; Elephant, Buffalos, Lions, Bush bucks, Kobs, Giant forest hog, Hyenas leopards, antelopes, and Waterbucks as well as birds. You will return for breakfast and relax till lunch. In the afternoon you will take a launch cruise along the amazing Kazinga channel to see, at close range, the water animals to include Hippos, Buffalos, Crocodiles and elephants bathing on the channel banks. There is also a variety of bird species on the water banks especially the famous Shoebill, pelican and Jacana. Dinner and overnight will be at your lodge.

After breakfast, you can proceed to either Kyambura Gorge for Chimp tracking, visit the bat cave or visit the Blue Lake. You will later drive back to Kampala arriving in the evening.