Get on a lion-tracking safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park for an exclusive wildlife tour in Uganda. This 4-day wildlife safari & lion tracking experience at Queen Elizabeth National Park gives you the rare encounter to do a lion tracking experience, Africa’s most popular activity in the wildlife game parks.
You will also have the opportunity to do chimpanzee trekking in Kyambura wildlife reserve and a safari drive to spot the giant African elephants, buffalo, water bucks, warthogs, lions, and Uganda Kobs. Queen Elizabeth National Park remains a perfect Uganda safari destination for wildlife safaris encounters.
Lion Tracking Safari Itinerary:
Day 1: Kampala – Queen Elizabeth NP
Our driver-guide picks you up from Kampala at your hotel or place of residence by 7:30 am after your early morning breakfast, and then drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will make your first stopover at the Equator crossing for photography and then continue with the visit to the Igongo Cultural Center in Biharwe, Mbarara, to learn and see the evolution of the Ankole culture.
After lunch at Agip Motel Mbarara, you will proceed to Queen Elizabeth as you enjoy beautiful scenery, herds of long-horned Ankole cattle, tea plantations in Ishaka, rift valley escarpment, open grassland, and woodland savanna. You will then get on an evening game drive for sightseeing, which is much more rewarding en route as you drive to your lodge.
Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge (luxury lodge facility). Meal Plan: lunch and dinner
Day 2: Full Day in Queen Elizabeth National Park
With the previous day’s memories, enjoy your breakfast ready for a guided primate walk along Kyambura Gorge to look for habituated chimps through the gorge. After a primate walk and lunch, a two-hour boat trip along the famous Kazinga channel is a worthwhile opportunity to see hippos, buffaloes, kobs, elephants, and warthogs among others. This trip also gives visitors a chance to see spectacular bird species.
You will also get on an evening game drive to encounter African elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, lions, and Uganda Kobs.
Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge (luxury lodge facility). Meal Plan: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 3: Lion Tracking Experience in Queen Elizabeth
Begin your day with a cup of coffee, and then an early morning game drive for a lion-tracking experiential research tour along Kasenyi and Queen’s Mile tracks. Other wildlife to encounter includes African elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, lions, spotted hyenas, bushbucks, stripped jackals, comical warthogs, the elusive leopards, Uganda kobs, and a variety of bird species.
You will later proceed to the Ishasha sector, where you will take on yet another evening game drive in search of tree-climbing lions.
Overnight stay and meals at Ishasha Wildness Camp (high-end lodge facility). Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 4: Queen Elizabeth Park – Kampala/Entebbe Airport
Early morning guided bush walk for a closer interaction with nature. The mid-morning will be spent on a game drive in search of the tree-climbing lions. Thereafter, you will head back to Kampala arriving in the evening, and then continue to Entebbe to catch up on your evening flight back home. Meal Plan: B & L
The Lion Tracking Safari Inclusions
- Transportation by a 4 x 4 Safari Land Cruiser
- Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
- Two-hour boat trip along Kazinga channel.
- Guided primate walk along Kyambura gorge
- Park fees
- Bush walk Ishasha
- Driver/guide subsistence allowance.
- Enroute lunches
- Ranger guide fees
- Three Game drives in Queen Elizabeth & Ishasha section
- Igongo Cultural visit
The Lion Tracking Safari Exclusions
- Expenses of personal nature like drinks, laundry, tips, telephone, cigars, etc
After visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park, you can extend your journey with an amazing wildlife game drive in the far northeast Kidepo Valley National Park or extend further north for a wildlife safari to Murchison Falls National Park. Further in Southwestern Uganda, you can opt for the breathtaking gorilla trekking experience in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.