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Queen Elizabeth National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
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A little town called Katwe
This is a top pick! ... quite an audience. It didn't last long though and we were on the road again quickly. Eventually we made it to Queen Elizabeth 2 National Park in western Uganda. It was much more dry and hot and arid than I was expecting. Not much greenery, just sun-baked ...
Ron, Hippo Hunter
This is a top pick! ... and we had a superb time with them. Thankfully things improved and we had no further problems as we drove down to Queen Elizabeth's National Park, it just meant that we arrived a little later than we should have. We did catch sight of a few animals on ...
Leopard Experience in Queen Elizabeth NP
Today we were to travel west to the Queen Elizabeth National Park our next point of call. On the way we passed through more tea plantations covering the hills of the area. We also did a mini tour of the beautiful crater lakes of this region. Beyond the ...
Queen Elizabeth National Park and Kazinga Channel
... This one was a beautiful specimen and quite young without the scars and ravages of the other lions we had seen. Queen Elizabeth National Park covers about 764 square miles and is smaller than Murchison Falls National Park. During the Ugandan-Tanzanian war ...
stunning views to the lakes..... and elephants!
... River Camp in the south. We limited ourselves to the northern part. Animals found in the Queen Elizabeth National Park include hippos, lions, elephants, buffalo, Uganda kob, waterbuck, bushbuck, topi, warthog, hyenas, mongoose, red-tailed monkey, black ...
Uganda Unveiled !
... and drove! This was always going to be one of the longest days in East Africa for us. We were heading to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Uganda is so green, it really caught us by surprise. There are hills everywhere, and the people seem to harvest crops ...
Vacation weekend
This weekend Bob, Patti (his wife), and I took a trip down to Queen Elizabeth National Park for a break while Mark is in Kampala for some meetings. It's so beautiful down here. We saw lions, elephants, buffalo, hippos, kob, warthogs, mongeese, all sorts ...
Aftersun required please...
Packed up camp in Kibale and headed off to 'Hippo Camp' in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Another breathaking place and as the name suggests, hippos were pretty common here. Very very basic facilities here which were in all honesty, pretty grim; no hot ...
Hungry Hippos
... here we saw a herd of Elephants and a bright blue gecko, with sights of the city long behind us we were heading for Queen Elizabeth National Park for an afternoon game drive and boat trip. Lunch was a quick crisp and ham butt-butt at the gate to ...
on the road to Queen Elizabeth Park
... de bananen! Bananen, bananen en nog eens bananen! Met bananen volgeladen trucks, met bananen volgestouwde fietsen,…. Queen Elizabeth National Park heeft één van de meest gevarieerde ecosystemen in Afrika en behoort daarom tot één van de mooiste ...
Tree Climbing Lions of Ishasha
... . The mosquito net was on wooden poles around the bed and kept toppling over. It is located in a really good position midway between Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi. It is also a great place to stay if you want to find the famous tree climbing lions of ...
Hippo heaven
... mountain air made us sit back down again just as quick. The following day we made it to one of Ugandas treasures, Queen Elizabeth National Park. Home to over 5000 Hippo. Our campsite was near a hippo infested lake and after the tents were erected I ...
An African Tale
... felt a lot better than I did. The truck left site at 06:30 and headed off for an early morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth Park, after seeing the arid dry landscape and lack of herbivores our hopes of the elusive leopard were not as high as they could ...
Queen Elisabeth National Park - Elephants
After our incredible experience with the Gorillas we headed further north to get to Queen Elisabeth National Park. This park has tree climbing lions and "normal" lions. We did unfortunately not see any of them as there are only around 200 hundred in the ...
Not Just Another Safari
Written by: Erica _______________________________________________________________________________________ We went on our second safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park, just a day's drive away from our home in Kampala. This wildlife park was ...
Happy Hippos
... hand! I was very pleased that I had packed our tent up the night before! Today we drove to The Queen Elizabeth national park in the south west of Uganda. We crossed the equator on route and stopped for the obligatory photo of the sign, and the ...
Spotting hippo's and baboons
Na een korte nacht (2 uur en een beetje) alweer de tent afbreken, ontbijten en hop weer de truck in op weg naar Queen Elisabeth National Park waar we 'wildlife'gaan spotten. Omdat het op het heetst van de dag was en er veel begroeing was hebben we weinig ...
The Queen's Park Uganda Style
... and the more friendly and smiling the country no matter how poor or wealthy the people may be the better. Queen Elizabeth the second largest in Uganda with over 1,978 sq-miles is a bird viewing paradise with over 610 bird species along with hippos, ...
Hippos and warthogs
After a brief stopover in Kampala (a lovely city by the way!) we headed to our first national park, Queen Elizabeth National Park in the west of the country. In Kampala there was once again political unrest as the leader of the opposition was arrested ...
All Hail the Queen!
... ready to go when my guide from Volcanoes Safaris arrived at Cassia Lodge just after 9:00 a.m. to begin our journey to Queen Elizabeth Park in Western Uganda. The trip was going to take about 6 hours, and I was really looking forward to the drive since it ...
Rainy Uganda
... bags like some other people so we just have to spray everything carefully tonight. This morning we got up to head into Queen Elizabeth National Park. Our guide had warned us that it is tough to see animals but I was still hopeful. Unfortunately, he was ...
Kings and Queens
This is a top pick! ... at all the children walking to school. We stopped in Fort Portal to do some grocery shopping, before heading on to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Progress on the bumpy potholed Ugandan roads was very slow, not helped by the large number of speed bumps ...
An orchestra of lions roaring and hyaenas laughing
... they are exercising. Although we would all fancy a nice king size bed in this prestige lodge it doesn't fit our budget. Queen Elizabeth Nationalpark's thick vegetation is a bird watcher's paradise: storks and eagles just to name two of the 600 different ...
Bush camping
Hi all, After our days wallowing about in Bon Jovi we decided to do some real travelling and headed off for QENP for a bit of safari action. Didn't really have to go far as we spotted an elephant on the driveway to the lodge. The camp was in a great ...
Queen Elizabeth National Park
We spent the next couple of days in Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is Uganda’s most famous game park. The really nice thing is that there aren’t many tourists in Uganda so we felt like we had the park to ourselves the whole ...
Game Drive and Boat Trip on the Channel in QE NP
... across the channel. Our afternoon itinerary included a boat ride along the channel, which is within the protected area of Queen Elizabeth National Park. We left from the Mweya Lodge area, and went across the channel to see the animals we were ...
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