QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK

Queen Elizabeth National Park is one wonderful parks in Uganda. Primarily associated with open savanna, tropical forest, two lakes, Lake George and Lake Edward, connected by a channel (Kazinga), volcanic features, with Lake Katwe where salt is extracted, the Park is Located in the South West of Uganda, with a size of 1978 sq km.

The park is named after Queen Elizabeth II and was established in 1954.
It boasts of over 100 types of mammal and 606 bird species which all make an adventurous place to visit. Wild animals on the park include crocodiles, warthogs, Buffallos, antelopes, Uganda kob, waterbuck, lion, elephant, leopard, various primates like chimpanzee, vervet, and various monkey types. There are no giraffe, Zebra,Impala rhino.

Notable bird species in the park include Malachite and Pied Kingfishers, White-winged Terns, Swamp Fly-catcher, Grey-capped Warbler, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Collard Pranticles, African Jacana, Pin-tailed Whydah Martial Eagle, Gabon and Slender-tailed Nightjars, the beautiful Black-headed Gonolek, Great and Long-tailed Cormorants, Common Squacco Heron, the rare Shoebill Stork, African Skimmer, African Fish Eagle, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Black Bee-eater, White-tailed Lark, White-winged Warbler, Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus Canary, Great white and Pink-backed Pelicans, African Mourning Dove, African Open-billed Stork, Black-rumped Buttonquail.

The Maramagambo Forest, south of the Kazinga Channel is also home to large numbers of chimps, plus a number of other monkey species.
The park has two seasons, dry and Rainy season with dry season experienced from June-September and Jan-February, and rainy season which is experienced between October-December and March-May.

Specialties like sunset over the water, warthogs and hippos mowing the lawn at Mweya Lodge, Boat ride on Kazinga channel, Chimpanzees in Kyambura, Imaramagambo forest which harbors various birds, all make up good recipe for the visit of Queen Elizabeth national park.
Activities in the park include;

-Game drives, where different trails in park will help you see different types of animals like Elephants, Lions, Leopards, Hyenas, Buffaloes, Waterbucks, Uganda Kobs and Warthogs among others. The most convenient time for game drives is early in the morning and evenings.

-Bird watching, where visitors interested in bird watching will get an opportunity to experience various bird species in the park. The Kazinga channel attracts a large number of water birds which include White-faced Whistling and Knob-billed Ducks, the Common Squacco Heron, Great and Long-tailed Cormorants, Great-white and Pink-backed Pelicans, African Jacana, African open-billed Stork, African Fish Eagle, Water Thick-knee, Spur-winged and African Wattled Plovers, Malachite and Pied kingfishers, Black Crake, Yellow backed Weavers and Swamp flycatchers among others.

Launch trips, which is taken along the kazinga channel. Here different animals and birds can be seen. These include large crowds of hippo and solitary Buffaloes, elephants, reptiles like Crocodiles and Lizards, water birds like Pelicans, Egyptian goose, Saddle-billed Stork, African Fish Eagles, African Jacana and Kingfishers among others.

-Nature walk which can be taken from the maramagambo forest, a tropical forest covered by largely low trees and gentle slopes. Hear one gets a visual of blue lake, the hunters cave, the bat cave, and different tree species including medicinal species.

-Chimpanzee tracking which can be done from a gorge found in the Kyambura Wildlife Reserve in the eastern part of the park. From Kyambura, there are a number of other primates such as Black and White Colobus Monkeys, Red-tailed Monkeys, Olive Baboons, as well as forest birds such as Hornbills, Kingfishers and Sunbirds.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK