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Queen Elizabeth National Park is the safari that proves Uganda doesn’t fit the usual savanna script. In three days you cover open grassland game drives, a launch cruise along one of Africa’s most concentrated wildlife waterways, and a chance at the tree-climbing lions found almost nowhere else on the continent. This itinerary is built for travellers heading south from Kampala or Entebbe who want the full Queen Elizabeth experience, the Kasenyi Plains, the Kazinga Channel, and the option of Ishasha’s lions or Kyambura’s chimpanzees, without committing a full week to it.
Entebbe or Kigali. International Airport
Game drives across the Kasenyi Plains in search of lions, elephants, buffalo, and Uganda kob, a launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel where hippos and buffalo gather in some of the highest concentrations in Africa, the option to visit the Ishasha sector for a chance at the rare tree-climbing lions, a photo stop crossing the Equator at Kayabwe on the drive south, and the option to add a chimpanzee trek into Kyambura Gorge, the “Valley of Apes.”
Your driver-guide collects you early and heads southwest, with a stop at the Equator crossing in Kayabwe for photos before continuing through Mbarara toward the park, a drive of around six to seven hours in total. After entering through Kabatoro or Kasenyi Gate, you’ll check into your lodge and have lunch, then head straight into an afternoon game drive across the Kasenyi Plains, watching for lion prides resting in the grass, herds of Uganda kob, buffalo, and elephant moving toward the water in the cooling light. Dinner and overnight at your chosen lodge.
An early start gets you onto the Kasenyi Plains while the light and the wildlife are at their best, with strong chances of lion, elephant, and the antelope and buffalo herds that draw them. Return to the lodge for lunch and a short rest before transferring to the jetty at Mweya for the early afternoon launch cruise, the centrepiece of any Queen Elizabeth safari. The boat moves slowly along the Kazinga Channel for around two hours, passing pods of hippo, basking crocodiles, elephants drinking at the bank, and dense flocks of pelicans, cormorants, and kingfishers, with the Rwenzori Mountains often visible on the horizon. Travellers wanting to add the Kya
After breakfast then head to Kampala through Mbarara to Kampala or Entebbe, arriving in the early evening, bringing your three-day Queen Elizabeth adventure to a close.
