Queen Elizabeth National Park is Uganda’s most popular savannah reserve and has the widest variety of wildlife of any Ugandan park. The variety of habitats includes grassland savannah, forests, wetlands and lakes. This provides the setting for an extensive range of large mammals and primates. Four of the Big five are present (rhino are absent) and chimp tracking is available.

Queen Elizabeth National Park hosts 619 bird species, the second highest of any park in Africa – the 6th highest of any parkworld-wide. This remarkable number is enabled by the park’s diverse habitats. QENP contains 95 species of mammal – more than any other park in Uganda. Hippos are efficient lawn mowers. They prefer to graze short grass, each animal eating about 40kg each night.

Queen Elizabeth national park is a very scenic tourist destination hosting an exclusive population of animals that is why it is one of the favorite destination for most of the tourists coming to Uganda for game viewing experience. From the comfort of your car on game viewing experience you drive through numerous trucks running through Queen Elizabeth national park, from the widows of your car you view many animals as they graze in the short savannah vegetation. Game viewing is an adventurous thrill on which you see animals like herds of elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, zebras, Uganda Kob, warthogs, leopards, giant forest hog and many more.

Queen Elizabeth national park is listed as one of the important birding areas in Uganda which is attributed to the big population recorded to be over 600 bird species, because of the big bird population the park is a bird paradise for bird watchers. While on bird watching experience in queen Elizabeth national park you tour various parts of the park such as savannah grassland, forests, swamps and on the shores of kazinga channel. In these areas you encounter many birds wonderful to look at such as sedge warbles, Verreaux’s eagle owl, malachite, black-ramped buttonquail, Collard Pranticles, papyrus canary, Verreaux’s eagle-owl, black bee-eater, Squacco heron, African fish eagle, swamp fly-catcher, long-tailed cormorants, Martial Eagle, Black- rumped Buttonquail African Skimmer, Grey-headed kingfisher, papyrus gonolek, Papyrus Canary and flamingos which are sighted at lake Katwe and Bunyampaba salt lakes.

One of the tourist attractions in Queen Elizabeth national park is the beautiful kazinga channel which facilities launch cruise in the park, kazinga channel is 32 kilometer long natural channel linking Lake Edward to Lake George. Kazinga channel hosts a wide concentration of Nile crocodiles, hippopotamus, elephants and many birds which floods both the waters and banks of the channel. A launch cruise experience on kazinga channel is an opportunity for enjoy the quite cool breeze of the waters, views of many animals like elephants. waterbucks, buffaloes, hippos, many birds such as malachite, black-ramped buttonquail, Collard Pranticles, papyrus canary, Verreaux’s eagle-owl, black bee-eater, Squacco heron, African fish eagle, swamp fly-catcher, long-tailed cormorants, Martial Eagle, Black- rumped and also enjoy the beautiful sun set. Boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth national park are offered on a daily basis in two session s both starting at either 09:00 am in the morning and 02:00 pm for a cruise of 2-5 hours of adventure.

Queen Elizabeth national park is one of few destination lucky enough to host the fascinating rare tree climbing lions, the tree climbing lions are found in the southern ishasha sector of the park. Lion tracking experience involves tracking down the lions in their habitant using a tracking device to look them, these lions have collar devices in their necks and they are found in the ishasha sector with a help of a guide and either seen resting in savannah grasslands looking for their prey or hanging at acacia and fig trees.

Chimpanzee tracking in Queen Elizabeth national park happens within the forested kyambura gorge, kyambura gorge is not only an attractive scenic region of the park but also a remarkable habitant for chimpanzee in Queen Elizabeth national park. The forest is a home to many other primates such as red tailed monkeys, baboons and many bird species such as Verreaux’s eagle owl, malachite, black-ramped buttonquail, Collard Pranticles, papyrus canary, Verreaux’s eagle-owl, black bee-eater, Squacco heron, African fish eagle, swamp fly-catcher, long-tailed cormorants, Martial Eagle, Black- rumped Buttonquail African Skimmer and many. The kyambura gorge has many trails passing through the gorge which are used during tracking, as you hike through the rain forests of the gorge you encounter many primates and birds viewed on tree tops either resting, playing or picking fruits.