Simba Safari Camp is a budget safari accommodation situated on the border of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Here you will find a variety of comfortable and affordable guest rooms, dormitory rooms and a well established camp site.

Located on a hill, the camp offers spectacular views of Lake George, Lake Kikoronko and the savannah plains stretching till the far horizon. It is the closest accommodation for game drives in the Kasenyi plains, while elephants and buffaloes can often be viewed from the camp.

Whether your wish to explore the beautiful surroundings of Queen Elizabeth National Park with a game drive, join a boat safari on the Kazinga Channel or go in search of the chimpanzees in Kyambura Gorge, Simba Safari Camp is the perfect base for your safari!

Kingfisher Lodge is suited off the park and it’s a temperate accommodation in Queen Elizabeth National Park. It’s owned by the Germans and positioned in the western part of Uganda adjacent to Queen Elizabeth National park. It has about 250 meters over the plains that give a magnificent view of the park, Mountain Rwenzori along with the Kazinga channel.

Accommodation
The accommodation rages from 2 family units,3 double rooms, 2 triple  rooms and 1 en suit. The lodge has the capacity to accommodate 36 visitors.

Facilities

*Restaurant with both international and local cuisines
*Facilities such as conference hall that accommodates about 30 people
*Beautiful gardens
*En suite facilities with campsites
*Fully stocked bar
*Swimming pool

Ishasha wildness camp is located within the heart of Queen Elizabeth National park adjacent to Ntungwe River. It’s a famous habitat for the tree climbing Lions. Its the only lavishness camp in the Ishasha sector. The camp is strategically located to favor both Gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Queen Elizabeth Forest along with Kibale Forest.

Accommodation

The camp is well designed with luxury tents that are fully self contained. Each tent has an African style.Meru tents are located in the wooded area across the river with excellent facilities such as en suite bathrooms and Eco-friendly toilets.

Facilities

*Restaurants with both international and local cuisines
*A well designed lounge and Dining area
*Solar power for lighting as well as charging simple gadgets.
*Camp fire place to keep you warm all night.
*Wake up calls
*A fully stocked bar.

Hippo Hill camp is well known to be a lavish camp located within the heart of Queen Elizabeth National Park. It was opened in 2006 and it’s more positioned in the shield zone of the park-Katwa town. The camp was constructed on the hill providing a magnificent view of Kitako as well as Kabazimu Islands. This park is enclosed by Lake Edward, Katwe salt Lake along with Munyanyange Crater Lake. It’s surrounded with large concentrations of Hippos, buffaloes, Flamingos and other wildlife.

Accommodation

The accommodation is well set with about ten lavishness tents with personal ensuite facilities such as bathrooms and toilets.The tents are well designed to provide comfort and a peaceful setting to enjoy the night.

Facilities

*A well stocked bar with a perfect view of Lake Albert
*Dining area with both international and local cuisines
*Camp fire that is must liked by all visitors.

Jacana safari lodge is suited in the heart of Queen Elizabeth National Park. It’s positioned at the periphery of Uganda’s biggest Crater Lake with a tree house lodge. The fragile use of rocks, ropes, wood, natural furniture blend well with the sweet melodies of the tropical hardwood forest. The evenings are usually occupied with camp fire that gives a memorable experience to all visitors. The lodge is well known for its standard accommodation with better facilities.

Accommodation:
The lodge has well designed accommodation with about 10 lavish chalets along with a family cottage. The lodge provides a favorable atmosphere to all visitors with facilities such as ensuits,Verandah along with big windows that give a magnificent view of lake Nyamusingire.This view will enable you enjoy a good morning breakfast served by a waiter.

Facilities in the safari lodge

*Restaurant with both international and local foods
*The great Virunga Lounge
*Swimming pool
*Sundowner bar that overlooks Lake Nyamusingire
*Internet services
*En suits facilities including safes and wardrobe

Tourists Activities

*Launch boat cruising on Kazinga channel
*Kayaking on Lake Nymusingire
*Wildlife drives along with game viewing
*Adventurous Forest walks

Mweya Safari Lodge is suited on the neck of land within the mind of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Its acknowledged to be one of Uganda’s best lodge with lavishness accommodation and excellent services. Its positioned in a way that gives a perfect view of the fresh water Lake Edward as well as the Kazinga channel from every corner of the lodge.

The Lodge is located in the heart of Uganda leading wildlife haven. Its famous for its various flora and fauna, animals such as Buffaloes, Lions, Elephants, Waterbucks hippos as well as crocodiles. Their land is covered with Savannah woodlands along with grassland. Although the common one is the Euphorbia species.

Accommodation

The lodge has well designed accommodation such as royal cottages, presidential cottage, deluxe all with en suit bathrooms, power as well as balcons giving a beautiful view of the Kazinga channel.

Facilities
Among the facilities offered by the lodge include Tembo safari bar fully stocked, poolside bar, Kazinga restaurant with both international and local cuisine, swimming pool, DSTV as well as a souvenir shop full of art and craft items. The lodge is designed with spacious dining room along with a lounge.

Activities
The lodge is well known for its activities such as bird watching, Nile cruise along Kazinga channel, chimpanzee trekking and nature photography.

Ihamba Safari Lodge is designed with stones and thatched cottages that well with the environment. The lounge and dining area has a beautiful spot that will make you enjoy your meal. The lodge has a swimming pool that will cool off the heat and still enjoy cocktail served as you enjoy the water. This place will give a magnificent view of Mountain Rwenzori .Besides sleeping, there are others facilities offered such as conference halls as well as internet services to all visitors.Ihamba lodge bar has a beautiful view of the sport events and it’s fully stocked with all kinds of wine.

Our Suites
The lodge has beautiful accommodation with comfort and lavishness. It has high quality services that will make your stay a memorable. It has about 10 special suites with excellent services. of which the suits are  cited after the native bush that enclose the lodge. They are constructed with stones, thatched and are located in a secreted setting with enough space to do personal work. The design of the suits leads you to the main lodge and after connect you to the bush. Which ever corner of the lodge you are in, you have a magnificent view of the forest, the windows in the lodge are glass thus give you a perfect view of nature. Among the services provided include telephone, internet with a fully well stocked bar. The rooms are air conditioned with up to date bathrooms and toilets.

Food and wine

This lodge is put as a 5 star hotel because it serves all different types of cuisine. Depending on where you want your meal to be served, it could be in the dining room of your suit, outdoor dining or probably main lodge dining. The dining setting will be of great satisfaction to our visitors. The lodge has a professional wine cellar manager who is good at selecting good wine for the visitors. Besides wine, there are other drinks that you will like.

Tourist Activities in Ihamba Safari Lodge

I hamba has activities such as game drives, bird watching as well as swimming at your own time of leisure .Book in advance to stand a chance of enjoying all the activities.

You can visit Queen Elizabeth National Park with one of the following safari companies. There tour operators can also take you for other safari holidays around Uganda.

AA Safaris and Tours
offers a true experience of EAST AFRICA with an independent Ugandan based Tour and Travel Company and an agency in the United Kingdom. Its fully registered and licensed in Uganda and a member of The Uganda Association of Travel Agents  and Association of Uganda Tour Operators, AUTO.  AA safaris and Tours Limited takes you to a multiplicity of tour and Uganda safari  sites   or Destinations in Uganda, Rwanda  , Kenya  and Tanzania  and  also offer global  airline ticketing and route planning on Request.

AA Adventures
Offers great packages for gorilla trekking in Rwanda and Uganda.

Enjoy Safaris Ltd
Tel +256782511422,+256701511122.
Head Office : Span House, 3rd Floor,Suite 301.
Email : info@enjoysafarisafrica.com
Website : www.enjoysafarisafrica.com

Arrive Africa Safaris
Head Office:  Kamu Kamu Plaza Entebbe Road Kampala Uganda
Mob +256 792 768 889 landline +256 (0) 392 908 774.
Email : info@gorillasafariholidays.com
Web: http://www.gorillasafariholidays.com

Close To Nature Safaris
Colline House 1st Floor, 67 Pilkington Road Kampala
Tel: 0711050842
Email: info@gorillasafarisuganda.com
Web: http://www.gorillasafarisuganda.com

Insight Safari Holidays
Tel : Office +256392613687 or +256793410510 :
email. info@ugandasafari.co.uk
web: www.ugandasafari.co.uk
Plot 4 Kimathi Avenue Kampala Uganda

Great Lakes Safaris
Is a local Ugandan Tour Operator,large enough to be respected as a premier safari company in Uganda and still small enough to care about each of the travellers. Great Lakes Safaris is a proud owner of Simba Safari Camp On the border of Queen Elizabeth National Park featuring affordable guest rooms, dormitory rooms and a camp site.

Onyx Safaris
offers itineraries from 3 up to 23 days to explore the beauty of Uganda. Also tailor the package to suit your very needs, given that over 50% of their safaris go through tourism sites such as rainforests, Rift Valley, primates, mountains, valleys, wetlands ……..and much more.Pleasure and passion to preserve the customs and cultures of the people of East Africa among which they operate.

Abeam Safaris
locally owned Safari Company based in Kampala, Uganda; with extensive knowledge of Eastern ( Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania)  and Southern Africa. We offer a broad spectrum of services, which include Gorilla and Chimpanzee trekking, holiday tours, luxury safaris, flying safaris, Hotel reservation, ticketing, car hire, excursions, day tours, designer itineraries.They also handle events management; have skilled personnel combined with our comprehensive range of event management services that are essential for the creation of successful events in the cities and the jungles too.

African Pearl Safaris
The first company to take tourist to Bwindi for gorilla tracking offers a range tours that include gorilla safaris, birding, nature / guided walks, wildlife game viewing, mountaineering and other guided Uganda tours. care about your safety and interests. To serve you better,they have developed capacity to rescue a safari.

Karibu Safaris
specialize in adventure travel if you need an adrenaline rush or an active self propelled holiday look no further. Be it white water rafting, abseiling, rock climbing, mountain biking, fly fishing, sports fishing, horseback safari, wind surfing, kayaking, canoeing, caving or hiking you will find us likeminded free spirits.

The park has a variety of Flora and Fauna and it’s acknowledged to be a habitat for over 95 mammal species with about 612 species of birds. The various species in this park, has made it a unique park most liked by tourists. Geographers will say that the park has around 57 vegetation but in actual sense, it has five levels of vegetation. Namely bushy grassland, Acacia woodland, Lakeshore or swamp vegetation along with forest grassland.

The grasslands of the park settles wildlife such as Cape buffalo, Uganda kob, waterbuck, warthlog, lion, leopard, hyena, giant forest hog as well as elephants.Topis can only be discovered in Ishasha and forest primate found in Kyambura gorge in addition to Maramagambo forest.

Africa has some protected areas. Therefore the park’s remarkable birdlist that to exceed that of the neighboring Virunga National Park. Among these include African skimmer, Chapins flycatcher, Pink-backed pelicans, Papyrus canary, Shoebill stork, martial eagle, black-rumped buttonquail as well as the great flamingos.

Around the park
Mweya Peninsula
The peninsula is the heart of sightseeing activities with excellent accommodation in the park. The only way to enjoy your tour in this park is by touring with a ranger guide. This person helps you explore the park as well as the distant parts of the peninsula.Mweya information center organizes all the activities that tourists may want to get involved in. The most exciting aspect about this peninsular is the fact that its overlooks Katwe bay of Lake Edward.Morestill, it has a souvenir shop full of African safari  items that will always remind you of park

Kazinga Channel.
The Kazinga channel is about 40m long adjoining Lake Gorge to Lake Edward. It has the perfect view of the parks’ major wildlife ventures. The shores of the lake attracts a large concentration of mammals, birds as well as reptiles all year around. The animals can be viewed well by the Nile cruise or probably at the entrance of Lake Edward. The operation of the cruise run from 15.00 and 17.00, furthermore voyages run 11.00 and 13.00 depending on the demand of the tourists.

Kazinga channel has parts for instance North Kazinga as well as Kasenyi.Its acknowledged that the plains of channel are focal points for game viewing. Tracking is the only way that will enable you see all the wildlife in its nature setting for example buffalo, elephants and other animals that dwell in the grassland thickets of the Northern Kazinga close to Mweya.The most accessible spot for lions is in the eastern part of Kasenyi plains and the Kasese road where they quarry on the big inhabitants of Uganda Kobs.The most favorable time for game drives is during morning and late afternoon hours. The work of the range guide is to help you get enough information about the park and still get the most memorable experience in Africa.

The Equator and the Queen’s Pavilion
The Uganda’s Equator provides a beautiful place for photo shooting along with craft shops that can make you buy a souvenir .The Queen’s Pavilion is easily spotted by the northern entrance to the Crater Drive. In 1954 Queen Elizabeth gave a provision shelter for this site until in 1959 when a permanent pavilion was constructed for the visit of Queen Elizabeth. Renovations were made by second visit of Duke of Edinburgh in 2007 with better facilities such as coffee shop and internet facilities.

Ishasha Tree Climbing Lions
Ishasha covers an area of about 100km south of Mweya.The Park’s distant southern segment gives a genuine Africa wilderness experience. Among the inhabitants in this place include savannah woodland, Ishasha River along with Lake Edward that has a diversity of wildlife such as climbing lions, rare shoebill stork and many others.

3 Days Queen Elizabeth Safari Tour Uganda

Queen Elizabeth National Park covers an area of about 1978 km2; its position provides a magnificent view of the rift valley floor that occupies Lake Edward and Gorge. Its well know to be habitat of about 95 mammal along with 612 species of birds.Formerly,a historian known as Douglas Willocks talked about the various features that led to the formation of the park in 1952.

The area was strategically located with a stunning view of Mount Rwenzori, the plains and the composite jagged mass of mountains that are good for activities such as hiking.
On the other side of Lake Edward, there is a famous hill known as Mitumbe that look out to Congo. Its beauty is signified with changing colors from blue to green, with gentle slopes, distant and this makes it become the center of darkness in Africa. The eastern part of the park is characterized with peaceful green escarpment that is acquired from the western rift valley. The features are all covered with savannah making it a beautiful place full of nature euphorbia trees.

The park is so extensive further more adjacent to the other protected areas. For instance Kigezi covering an area about 256km2 and Kyambura with about 154km2 wildlife set a side. The other areas include Kalinzu Forest reserve that adjoins to DRC with about 200km2 along Virunga National Park.Rwenzori National Park is about a few Kilometers to the North.

Queen Elizabeth National Park has one of the highest bio diversity ratings of any national park in the world, over 500 different bird species and about 100 mammal species.

The grassland plains supports a variety of animals which can be viewed from a vehicle on the network of tracks designated in the park. About 20 predators are found in the park such as lions, leopards, side stripped jackal and spotted hyena among others.

Common Antelopes species include the kob, bush buck, topi and water buck. Other animals which can even be found at mweya peninsular are;Buffaloes, elephants, warthogs and hippos. There are also various primate species are available in the park including chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, blue monkey, black and white colobus monkey, olive baboons among others. The Ishasha sector is famously known for its tree climbing lions and it is also known to host the world’s highest concentration of hippos.
ITINERARY:

Day 1: Arrival and Transfer:
Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park which is one of the outstanding treasures of Uganda and named after Queen Elizabeth II visit in 1954.En route we shall stop at the equator which divides the earth into the Northern and southern hemisphere. We shall have lunch in Mbarara and thereafter proceed with our journey to the park.

Dinner and overnight in:

DAY 2: Game drive and Boat cruise:
After breakfast at 6.30am depart for the early Morning Game drive. The park has a net work of many game tracks which end at the Kasenyi fishing village.

Expect to see animals such as Elephants, Waterbucks, Warthogs, the Uganda Kob, herds of Buffaloes. Watch out Baboons and monkeys!

After lunch, go for the exciting 2hour Launch cruise along the Kazinga channel. Expect to see bird species such as the rare shoe bill, Egyptian geese, the yellow billed stork, white pelicans; Hippos and Crocodiles swimming while others bask in the sun. Return for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Return to Kampala.
Immediate transfer to Kampala or(oportional)go for chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura gorge or go for nature walk in Maramagambo forest where bat caves On your way, make a stopover at Mpambire drum village, a chance to buy a locally made drum.
End of Uganda Safari