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This is Uganda’s national park, found in the western part of the country in the Albertine Great Rift Valley. It measures around 764 square meters and was established in 1952 as Kazinga National Park. This is after the visit of the queen of England; thus, in 1954, Kazinga National Park was changed to Queen Elizabeth II to commemorate her. The park is shared by the districts of Kasese, Kamwenge, Rubirizi, and Rukungiri. This park shares the Kyambura and Kigezi game reserves while adjoining Immaramagambo, extending to Kibale Forest National Park on the northern side, and Rwenzori National Park, which is adjacent, and the Ishasha sector to Virunga National Park in Congo in the southern part of the country.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is rich in biodiversity, having or harboring around 95 species of animals and over 600 species of birds. Some of the animals include civet cats, golden cats, civets, cerval cats, lions, leopards, hyenas, jackals, buffaloes, elephants, kobs, bush backs, water backs, warthogs, bush pigs, forest hogs, adverks, pangolins, pochpines, hyraxes, hippos, squirrels, and many others.

Among the birds it includes are the black-headed gonerke, yellow-vented bulbul, papyrus gonerke, black-headed heron, gull, yellow-billed stork, saddle-billed stork, tchagras, different types of weavers, Namaqua dove, red-eyed dove, and ring-necked dove. Scaly frankolin, helmeted guinea fowl, marabou stork, gray-crowned crane, cattle egret, little egret, goliath heron, black crake, African wattled lapwing, Egyptian goose, starling, pine tail wayver, bare-faced go-away bird, oriolis, lapped-faced vulture, hooded vulture, white-shouldered vulture, long-tailed starling, and many others.

It also includes a number of primates like the chimpanzees, vervet monkeys, baboons, red colobus monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, le’hoest monkeys, and many other species.

Kyambura game reserve

This was formed as a hunting ground in 1962. And later in 1965 it was upgraded to a game reserve. This place harbors a lot of wildlife, but it’s the only place you can do chimpanzee tracking in the whole of Queen Elizabeth. This gorge is an area that sank down, having a river in it and a tropical rain forest in the savannah area.

Kasyoha Kitomi Forest Reserve

This is one of Uganda’s forest reserves, located near or adjacent to Queen Elizabeth National Park. It is located in the Rubirizi district, Bushenyi, and Ibanda, and part of it is shared by the Buhwezu district. The forest is reported to be rich in birds, which amounts to 308, of which 276 birds have been reported to be endemic, and of which the white-naped pigeon and the grey parrot are regarded to be near threatened. The other species include the cinnamon-chested bee eater, Shelly’s greenbul, mountain illadopsis, afep pigeon, dusky long-tailed cuckoo, and many more forest birds.

The forest also has many animals like the forest elephants, African cape buffaloes, northern musk swamp shrews, duikers, different types of squirrels, chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, l’hoest’s monkeys, and olive baboons. It is also rich in biodiversity, like different types of plants and trees, butterflies, snakes, and moths, as well as many waterfalls and beautiful crater lakes.

Immaramagambo Forest Reserve

The Immaramagambo Forest Reserve is one of the existing rich biodiversity forests. It is located in Bushenyi district and Rubirizi district. This tropical rain forest is jointly managed by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, as it stretches into Queen Elizabeth National Park, and the Uganda Forestry Authority.

The forest is well known for its richness in tropical bird life and chimpanzee tracking in Uganda. It also has many animals like forest elephants, African cape buffaloes, hippos that inhabit major lakes of Nyamusingiri and Kyasanduka craters, baboons, L’hoest monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, and many more. It also has a lot of biodiversity, like the moths, butterflies, flowers/plants, reptiles like snakes, geckos, skinks, numerous agama lizards, and many more.

3 Days Queen Elizabeth Game & Nature Safari

Day 1: According to your arrival pickup, ascend to southwestern Uganda after breakfast. Here you will be able to have a stopover at the equator, take photos, and have an equator experience; later proceed and stop at the Mbarara restaurant / agip motel and have lunch.

After lunch you will proceed to the beautiful highlands of Igara tea plantations that cover the rolling hills and see the beautiful scenery of Rubirizi grates. Have a chance to see the lake that is the map of Africa, the Lake Pot, the Twin Lake of Katinda and Mirambi, and many more. Reach our hotel in the evening, have dinner, and overnight. Stay at Enganzi Lodge, Twin Lake Safari Lodge, Park View Lodge, or Elephant Plan Safari Lodge.

Day 2: After an early breakfast at our lodge, our guide will take you deep in the park to look for animals like the African Cape buffalo, African elephants, kobs, warthogs, waterbacks, bush backs, lions, leoparders, jacals, hyenas, and many more animals. You also expect to see birds like the slender billed weaver, black-headed weaver, black-headed heron, goliath heron, African pied kingfisher, cattle egret, little egret, black-headed goliath, pin-throated wydelg, black crake, and many more bird species.

Come back for lunch, and after lunch, we have a boat ride cruise in the park. Here you will expect to see many animals mentioned above that come to drink water. See animals also like the hippos, crocodiles, monitor lizards, and many more water birds like the African fish eagles, marsh sandpipers, black-winged stilt, owletts, gulls, African water thickness, Egyptian goose, pied kingfishers, squacal herons, little egrets, yellow-billed storks, and many others.

Come back to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: transfer back to Kampala through Fort Portal City. This route will allow you to enjoy the beautiful scenery, mountains of the moon, and agricultural tea estates.

4-Day Queen Elizabeth Wildlife & Nature Safari

Day 1: Depending on your area of location, you will be met by our company representative, who will brief you about the tour and later take you for your tour right to the western part of the country. Passing through the green lushes of the Mubende-Fort portal region. Through the big tea estates, learn about the tea, and later proceed to the lodge in Fort Portal town, where you are going to spend a night.

Dinner and overnight at Koi Koi

Day 2: After breakfast at your lodge, transfer to Amabere Ganyina Mwiru, where you will get a historical background about the Fort Portal Kingdom as well as the geographical history of the area. This will give you a chance to learn about the Batooro/tooro kingdom as well as why this area was called and named the Mabeere Ga Nyinamwiiru.

After that, we shall proceed to the sempaya hot spring. This is found in Semuliki Valley National Park. Here we get a chance to enjoy both female and male hot springs. Later, we proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Stay at Enganzi Safari Lodge, Park View, or Twin Lake Safari Lodge

Day 3: Have a game drive early morning after breakfast. Here you will get a chance to see animals like the African cape buffaloes, African elephants, water backs, warthogs, kobs, lions, leopards, bushbacks, and bush pigs, as well as many other bird species.

Come back for lunch, and after, we will proceed for the boat ride on the Kazinga Channel. This channel connects the two lakes, Lake Edward and Lake Gorge, and has a lot of animals that come to drink water. We expect to see animals like the hippos, crocodiles, monitor lizards, and many other water birds.

Come back to our lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 4: Travel back to Kampala/airport for your departure.

6-Day Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari

Day 1: Early morning after breakfast, your guide will meet you at your area of stay/lodge/airport and transfer you to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Stop at the equator, have an equator experiment, and later proceed. Have lunch on the way and later proceed to where we expect to reach in the evening. Stay at Buffalo Safari Lodge, Kasenyi Safari Lodge, or Twinlake Lake Safari Lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: After an early breakfast, we have a full-day game drive where we expect to see animals like the Cape buffalo, African elephants, water bears, warthogs, kobs, bushbeasts, bush pigs, lions, leopards, hyenas, and many more animals. Here we also expect to see birds like the African fish eagle, saddle-billed stalks, grey-crowned cranes, black-headed herons, kitiziz plovers, spur-winged lapwings, crowned lapwings, weavers, white-backed vultures, laped-faced vultures, palm nut vultures, marsh sandpipers, and many more others.

Day 3: Early morning after breakfast at our lodge, we shall assemble at Kyambura Gorge for the chimpanzee tracking. Here this will take you a day while you are looking for these giant close relatives to us. After the general briefing at the park briefing point, you will ascend deep in the gorge to trace the movement of the animals.

Upon seeing them, the guide will allow them to take photos and videos and have a full explanation about these animals. Besides, we also have a lot of forest birds like the great blue turacos, ross’s turacos, nihan tragon, and many more animals like the hippos that occupy the Kyambura River, which passes through the gorge, buffaloes, elephants, and other monkeys like the baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, and many others.

Come back for lunch. After lunch, we shall have an afternoon boat ride on the Kazinga Channel that connects the two lakes of Edward and George, where we expect to see animals like the hippos, kobs, elephants, baboons that come to drink water, buffaloes, crocodiles, vervet monkeys, if possible lions, leopards, water birds like African fish eagles, pied kingfisher, malachite kingfisher, Egyptian goose, black crake, little egrets, black-winged stilts, papyrus goliath, and many others

Come back for dinner and over night at the same lodge

Day 4: have another half-day game drive and later proceed to katwe salt mining lake. This community lake mining will leave you have an experience of the social interaction of the local Ugandan people with relation to the prevailing natural salt mine. It possible we shall have the crater drive of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Stay at the same lodge

Day 5: Proceed to amabere ga nyinamwiru, literally meaning the breasts of nyinamwiiru. Have the social interration with the batooro people. Visit some fort portal craters as well. Later you will proceed to Semuliki Valley National Park where expect to see the hot springs of both male and female hot springs. Come back to Fortportal town for dinner and overnight

Day 6: Departure back to our respective home/airport