About Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth spans crater lakes, open savannah, forest and the Kazinga Channel — a natural waterway linking Lake Edward and Lake George that concentrates more hippos and buffalo per kilometre than almost anywhere else in Africa. The Ishasha sector, further south, is one of the only places on the continent where lions regularly climb into the branches of old fig trees and simply lie there for the afternoon.
A Kazinga Channel boat cruise is the park’s signature outing: hippos wallowing a boat-length away, elephant families drinking at the bank, fish eagles and pelicans working the shallows, usually with a Nile crocodile or two sunning nearby.
Game drives on the Kasenyi plains cover lion, elephant, buffalo, kob and the occasional leopard, while Ishasha's tree-climbing lions are a detour worth the extra distance. The Rwenzori foothills sit on the park's western skyline the whole time.
