3 days trip to Queen Elizabeth National park.
Day
One:
After breakfast, your guide from Churchill safaris will
meet you at your hotel at 7.00am and set off on the
southbound road, have a stop to look at the Royal Drum
makers, stand on the Equator and be in both hemispheres
at once and thereafter proceed to Mbarara. Have lunch
at Agip motel and then continue through the lush hills
to Queen Elizabeth National Park arriving in the evening.
Have a game drive as you are entering the park and over
night at either Mweya Lodge/ Jacana safari Lodge (High
end/luxurious accommodation), King Fisher Lodge Kichwamba/
Hippo Hill Camp (Medium class accommodation) or the
Institute of Ecology Cottages (Low budget/basic accommodation).
Full Board.
It’s a little wonder that Queen Elizabeth boasts one of the
highest bio diversity ratings of any game park or reserve in the world,
- from the open Savannah to Rain Forest, dense Papyrus Swamps and
brooding Crater lakes to the vastness of Lake Edward.
Almost 100 mammal species that include Lions, Hippos, Buffaloes, Leopard,
Spotted Hyena, Elephants and the elusive Giant Forest Hog plus remarkable
606 bird species that include the Black Chested Eagle, the Swallow
Tailed Bee Eaters, to mention but a few.
The Primates include Chimps, Black and White Colobus Monkeys, Blue,
Black Faced Red Colobus, and Red Tailed monkeys and Olive Baboons.
Reptiles are the amazing huge Rock-Python, Puffadders,
Spitting Cobras, Gabon Rippers, Green Mambas, Turtles
etc. All these are regularly sighted around the tourist
village on the Mweya Peninsula and all this makes a
superb safari territory.
Birding is also wonderful. Queen Elizabeth Park has the highest recorded number of over 600 species of birds including the Shoebill Stork, Black Bee-Eater, Chappirs Fly Catcher, Bustards, craters full of Lesser Flamingos etc. Over night at either Mweya Lodge/ Jacana safari Lodge (High end/luxurious accommodation), King Fisher Lodge Kichwamba/ Hippo Hill Camp (Medium class accommodation) or the Institute of Ecology Cottages (Low budget/basic accommodation). Full Board.
Day Two:
Early morning drive to the crater lakes for a game drive.
Then go for the afternoon boat trip along the Kazinga
Channel. Hippos huff and spray mere feet away from the
boat, Buffalo linger in the shallows, a tremendous variety
of birds grace the grasses on the shores. Great White
and Pink-Backed Pelicans, Great and Long-Tailed Cormorants,
Open-Billed Stork, African Jacana, Malachite and Pied
Kingfishers are commonly seen. February and March offer
spectacular sightings of some of the bird migrants.
Spend the night at either Mweya Lodge/ Jacana safari
Lodge (High end/luxurious accommodation), King Fisher
Lodge Kichwamba/ Hippo Hill Camp (Medium class accommodation)
or the Institute of Ecology Cottages (Low budget/basic
accommodation). Full Board.
