4 days · Uganda
Four Days Queen Elizabeth National Park
DURATION
4 days
DESTINATION
Uganda
FROM
USD 2,100
Four days in Queen Elizabeth National Park — a boat cruise through one of Africa's highest wildlife densities and tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector.
BEST FOR
First-time Uganda visitors, birders, travellers wanting maximum wildlife diversity in a short time
Journey highlights
- —Boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel — one of Africa's highest wildlife densities
- —Tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector
- —Crater drive through the Katwe explosion craters
- —Over 600 recorded bird species
- —Game drives across open savanna and euphorbia-studded plains
Day by day
Kampala → Queen Elizabeth NP
Drive west via Mbarara, arriving at the park by afternoon. Late-afternoon game drive across the Kasenyi plains for lion, buffalo and Uganda kob.
Kazinga Channel & Crater Drive
Morning boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel, where hippo, elephant, buffalo and crocodile gather along the shoreline in some of the highest concentrations in Africa. Afternoon drive through the volcanic Katwe crater field.
Ishasha Sector
Full day in the remote Ishasha sector, famous for lions that climb into the branches of fig trees to escape the heat and biting flies at ground level.
Departure
Final morning game drive before the return drive to Kampala or onward connection to Bwindi.