Archive for April, 2008

Birdwatching in Queen Elizabeth, Birding Uganda

Bird watching:
Queen Elizabeth National Park hosts over 500 bird species. Expect to see at least 200 bird species just on a two day visit such as the African fish eagle, martial eagle, papyrus gonolek, African Skimmer among others.

Game Drive, Queen Elizabeth, Game Safari

Game drives
This activity involves the visitors to drive through the park while viewing animals. The Park has several spots of well maintained game viewing tracks.
This park has got over 200 kms of well maintained game tracks .The best time for game drives is in the morning hours where there are high chances of seeing elephants, buffaloes, lion and a variety of antelopes and other wildlife.
Launch cruise on the Kazinga channel:
The boat cruise on the Kazinga channel usually lasts for 2 hours and it gives visitors the opportunity to see a variety of yawning hippos in water, water birds, buffaloes, elephants, zebras, the Uganda-kobs, topis, water bucks, bush bucks, reed bucks, duiker, mongoose, swamp antelopes, spotted hyena, warthog, forest hog and in difficult routes in the south.

Queen Elizabeth Uganda, Getting There and Access

QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK
Getting There . Access
Located in western Uganda, shared by districts of Kasese, Bundibugyo and Bushenyi, Queen Elizabeth park is 1978km2 in size. The park lies 5-6 hours from
Kampala on a surfaced road via Mbarara, and can be reached on a dirt road

from Bwindi.
It includes parts of Lakes Edward and George which are linked by Kazinga channel. Accessing the park from Kampala is either on tarmac through Mbarara (420 kames) or Fort Portal via Kasese (410kms). The park is 5-6 hours from Kampala on surface road via Mbarara. The park can also be reached via Ishasha sector, which is south of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.