3 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Stays are in camps or lodges.
Uganda · Budget
4 Days Queen Elizabeth Adventure
A 4-day budget safari in Queen Elizabeth. Stays are in camps or lodges.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Where
- Queen Elizabeth
- Comfort
- Budget
- Accommodation
- Other stops: overnight at a camp or lodge.
Price
Price on request
Day by day
Your itinerary, day by day.
Starts in Kampala · finishes in Kampala
The route, days and named stays are as planned. What is included at each stop, from food, park fees and drinking water to room types, permits and border arrangements, and any camp or lodge not named here, is set out in your written quotation. Game drives on travel days depend on arrival and departure times, timings can change with road and park conditions, and wildlife sightings are never guaranteed. Photographs illustrate each day’s destination; they are not pictures of a particular departure.
A topi in green grassland in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) Into Uganda’s far west
Kampala → Queen Elizabeth National Park
This adventure starts with the road from Kampala towards the far west of Uganda and the park that covers some 1,978 square kilometres of Kasese District. The park greets you with open grassland that grows moister and more wooded towards the west, and with the sense of space of what UWA calls Uganda’s most popular savannah park. The evening is a chance to settle in before the days ahead, with the Kazinga Channel, the crater country and Ishasha all still to come.
- Overnight
- Camp or lodge near Queen Elizabeth National Park, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
An African spoonbill feeding in the Kazinga Channel, Uganda. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) Channel shores and crater country
Queen Elizabeth National Park
The Kazinga Channel is the park’s great meeting place, where elephants, buffalo and herds of hippos come to the banks between Lake Edward and Lake George. Away from the water the scenery changes completely in the Katwe explosion craters, which rise to the highest point in the park and show how volcanic this landscape is. Between the two, a day here shows why the Uganda Wildlife Authority counts more than 600 bird species in Queen Elizabeth, from waterbirds on the channel to species of the grassland and woodland.
- Overnight
- Camp or lodge near Queen Elizabeth National Park, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A lioness in golden morning light in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Giles Laurent (CC BY-SA 4.0) Ishasha and the tree-climbing lions
Queen Elizabeth National Park → Ishasha
Today heads south to the Ishasha sector, the remote corner of the park where lions are known to climb fig trees and rest along the branches, watching the plains below for Uganda kob. Finding them depends on where the prides are, and no sighting can be promised, but searching the fig trees of Ishasha is a highlight of any visit to the park. The lions’ prey, the Uganda kob, grazes the open plains of the sector.
- Overnight
- Camp or lodge in Ishasha, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
An African elephant in the grasslands of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) Back to Kampala
Queen Elizabeth National Park → Kampala
The last day returns to Kampala. Depending on where the night was spent, there may be a final drive through the plains before the long road east, and a stop at the equator monuments makes a fitting marker on the way out of a park that sits on both sides of it. Queen Elizabeth has been protected since it was founded as Kazinga National Park in 1952, and four days here leave a much fuller picture of it than a single visit to the channel could.
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Like the shape of these days? Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team will set out the stays, meals and inclusions in a written quotation.
Where you stay.
Other stops: overnight at a camp or lodge. The camp or lodge is discussed with you during planning and confirmed with your itinerary, subject to availability. How accommodation works on our safaris
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