Safari Overview
This 3 Days wildlife safari to Queen Elizabeth National park offers you an opportunity to spot a variety of wildlife in close range, the stunning landscapes and the rich cultural heritage of the surrounding communities to park. The itinerary enables you to spot wildlife like elephants, buffaloes, lions on a game drive in the Kasenyi plains, a boat cruise a long the Kazinga channel to spot aquatic animals like nile crocodiles, hippos and birds.
Then salt mining experience at Lake Katwe to gain the deeper understanding of the traditional methods for salt extraction using the rudimentary tools and the twins crater lake’s experience in Rubrizi district. This package promises an experience where you spot wildlife, stunning landscapes and the communities that live in the National park and how they coexist with wildlife and utilize the natural resources to support their livelihood.
Wake up early in the morning and prepare yourself for the 3 Day wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Pack your bags and all the essentials you will need. Have your hearty breakfast, meet our company representative/ tourist guide for briefing about your 3 Day wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park. After briefing, he will help load your bags in the car and start your journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park using Kampala-Fortportal-Kasese route. with beautiful sceneries along the way like the tea growing plantations in Fortportal, the Rwenzori mountains. Have your enroute lunch. After arriving, check in your booked lodge and relax as you prepare for your evening game drive.
Drive to the Kasenyi gate and start your evening game drive. Kasenyi plains offers the best opportunity to spot wildlife like African Elephants, Buffaloes, Uganda kobs, warthogs and waterbucks. You can spot nocturnal animals like lions, elusive leopards and cunning hyenas as they hunt or feed on the prey. Conclude your day with a delightful dinner and overnight stay at your lodge as your prepare the following day’s activities.
Accommodation: Bush lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch& Dinner
Start your stay with a cup of coffee and hearty breakfast and meet your tourist guide to drive to the Kasenyi Plains for your morning gamedrive. Queen Elizabeth National park being a home to 95 mammal species,612 birds species offers the best opportunity to spot a variety of wildlife like African Elephants, cape buffaloes, warthogs, waterbucks, Uganda kobs as the gracefully feed in the morning hours. Keep your eyes out to spot the norcturnals like lions, leopards and cunning hyenas as they roam in the savannah plains. Drive to your lodge and have your hearty lunch.
After luch continue with your day’s itinerary as you drive to Katunguru to start your Boat cruise along the Kazinga channel a 40 km channel that joins Lake Edward and Lake George. It supports life to many wildlife like aquatic animals like Nile crocodiles, Hippos in water and also spot the elephants, buffaloes and other animals as they visit the channel to take water and take bath to cool their body temperature. For bird enthusists , the channel offers opportunity to spot a variety of bird species especially the migratory bird species and other water birds like cormorants, pelicans, storks, kingfishers.
Then embark on your evening gamedrive to increase your chances for spoting wildlife that you could have missed in the morning and a rewarding sunset in the savannah grasslands. Conclude your day with a delicious dinner and overnight stay at your Lodge as your cherish the memories of spotting wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Accommodation: Bush Lodge
Start your day with an early breakfast at the lodge, bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Then head to Katwe Wildlife Sanctuary for the unique Katwe salt Lake experience, exploring one of the explosive crater lakes in the park. Delve deeper into the salt extraction process, learning about industrial methods used in the past and traditional techniques still practiced today. Witness salt mining, a vital economic activity supporting the community alongside fishing on Lake Edward. As you exit Katwe salt Lake have a stop at Lake Munyanyange which is adjacent to the lake. It harbors over 40 bird species like the flamingoes, geese, Gulls, Terns and many more.
Next, journey to Rubirizi District for the Twin Lake experience, blessed with stunning volcanic landscapes and fertile soils nurturing agriculture. Gain insights into the area’s history and geography from your knowledgeable guide. Enjoy an en route hot lunch in Mbarara and stop at the Equator in Kayabwe for memorable photos on your way to Kampala.
Conclude your day with a transfer back to Kampala or Entebbe, reflecting on the unforgettable wildlife encounters and natural wonders experienced in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Meal Plan; Breakfast/Lunch
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