3 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari
Start your 3 day exploration of Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda, traveling across its vast savannah terrain. This trip is ideal for families or travelers with limited time. As Uganda’s second-biggest and most frequented park, it hosts 95 types of mammals and 652 bird species, positioning it as a prime location for birdwatching. During your stay, watch for leopards, elephants, lions, Uganda Kobs, hyenas, waterbucks, warthogs, and primates like chimpanzees in Kyambura Gorge and Kalinzu Forest, plus black-and-white colobus monkeys.
Activities to be enjoyed in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Game drives
Boat cruise
Lion tracking experience
Detailed itinerary
Day 1 : Pick up and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, (pick up around 6:00am)
Depending on your location in Kampala, you will be welcomed by our driver guide who will brief you about the safari and then start the journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park. On the way you will enjoy great views of the landscape, tea plantations, crater lakes, Rwenzori mountain ranges with a stopover for en-route lunch.
After lunch you will continue the journey to the park and upon arrival you will go for an evening game drive where you will be able to view animals like buffaloes, Uganda kobs, waterbucks, elephants and then drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation and meals: Elephant hab lodge
Day 2 : Morning game drive/ Lion tracking experience and afternoon boat cruise
Morning game drive/ lion tracking experience
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will meet up with your driver guide to go for a morning game drive/ lion tracking experience where you will be able to view different animals such as elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, bushbucks, warthogs, leopards, Uganda kobs, variety of bird species, take beautiful pictures of the landscape, sunrise among others. After the game drive you will drive back to the lodge for lunch.
Afternoon boat cruise,
After lunch you will take an exciting boat ride on Kazinga channel, a water body that joins Lake Edward and Lake George. The scheduled boat cruise takes about 2 to 3 hours ride and gives you an opportunity take clear photos, cruise meters away from large concentrations of hippos and Nile crocodiles in water, other animals like elephants, buffaloes, antelopes among others which will be drinking water along the banks and also enjoy seeing different bird species, view fisher men on the lake shores preparing their fishing gears for night fishing among others. After the interesting boat ride you will return to the lodge for an evening relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Accommodation and meals: Elephant hab Lodge
Day 3 : Departure to Kampala
You will have a relaxed breakfast, check out of the lodge and meet up with your driver guide to start the journey back to Kampala with en-route lunch in Mbarara town. After lunch you will continue the journey to Kampala arriving early evening and upon arrival your driver guide will drop you off at which will bring the safari to an end.
End of 3 days Queen Elizabeth national park safari
3 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari includes
· Park entrance fees
· Game drives
· Boat cruise fees
· Lion tracking fees
· Full-time English speaking driver guide
· Accommodation as indicated in the itinerary
· All meals at the lodge (breakfast-lunch-dinner)
· Pick up and drop off in Kampala
· 4WD pop up safari vehicle and fuel
· Bottled drinking water
3 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari excludes
· flight tickets and visas
· Optional activities not included on the itinerary
· insurance
· Personal expenses like buying souvenirs, crafts, drinks, laundry services, tips among others.
· anything else not included in the itinerary
