QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK

Uganda’s most visited, popular, and diverse conservation area- Queen Elizabeth National Park one of; it covers an area 1,978 sq.km, found in the Western part of the country, approximately 376 km /8hours drive from Kampala. It enjoys a fabulous setting on the rift valley, surrounded by lakes, escarpments and the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains. A variety of habitats, including grassland, acacia woodland, forest, wetland and open water, sustains wide range of mammals while the parks 604 bird species as a park with highest number of bird species in Uganda and it is a quite remarkable tally for a protected area covering
less than 2,000km2.Highlights in Queen Elizabeth National Park include the launch cruise on Kazinga Channel, past resident hippos and water birds; the improbably scenic 24km Crater Drive which winds around the rims of extinct volcanoes; chimpanzee tracking in the deep, forested Kyambura Gorge; and the search for tree climbing lions under vast rift valley skies in the remote, southerly ishasha sector.