Reviews of Queen Elizabeth NP (121 User Reviews)

Rui Silva –

PT

Visited: June 2024 Reviewed: Jun 30, 2024

Email Rui Silva | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris

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4/5

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Not many lions and I didn’t see any leopard. But the savana is very nice

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Audrey Kinter –

US

Visited: February 2023 Reviewed: Mar 20, 2023

Email Audrey Kinter | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris

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4/5

Land game runs disappointing but boat ride amazing. I’ve never seen so many hippos and elephant families. You can get quite close as you are on the water.

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Hannele –

FI

Visited: January 2023 Reviewed: Feb 3, 2023

Email Hannele | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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4/5

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Interesting place.

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Simon Ward –

UK

Visited: September 2022 Reviewed: Oct 7, 2022

Email Simon Ward | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris

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4/5

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What made it was seeing the tree climbing lions, elephants lots of Ugandan job and other antelope and the boat trip on the kazinga channel for lots of hippos and crocodiles

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PI –

DE

Visited: August 2022 Reviewed: Sep 19, 2022

Email PI | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari

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4/5

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Leopard was the highlight, for sure I could not count all the hippos seen in the Kazinga channel.

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Zsolt Banyai –

HU

Visited: February 2021 Reviewed: Feb 22, 2021

Email Zsolt Banyai | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris

Kyambura Gorge is amazing!

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4/5

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If you assess the park purely on the game drives, then it was very disappointing. There are only a few species that we saw: elephants, hippos, warthogs, buffalos, waterbucks and Ugandan kobs. However there are some activities which are excellent, making this a worthwhile destination:
1. Lion and leopard tracking with big cat research scientists. Thanks to the tracking collars we located 2 beautiful male lions, then 3 females and finally a female leopard. Going off road (since we had a ranger with us) made it even more fun!
2. Boat trip on Kazinga Channel is a wonderful way of seeing hippos, elephants and buffalos, plus water birds. Loved it.
3. Finally, the Kyambura Gorge. This place alone is worth the visit to this park. Rainforest in the middle of the savanna. The most beautiful forest I have ever been to. If you are lucky, you might find chimpanzees as well (I did not), but even without them the place is extraordinarily beautiful. You can see monkeys, birds, and the river is full of hippos.
Please keep in mind that there are about 40,000 people living in the park, and about 80,000 around the borders, so sometimes it does not feel like that you are in a national park.

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Daudi –

UG

Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Jan 30, 2020

Email Daudi | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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4/5

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Spotted hippos, elephants, lions, buffalo etc

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Cheri –

US

Visited: September 2019 Reviewed: Dec 6, 2019

Email Cheri | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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4/5

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Could not find the tree climbing lions

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Timmerman Trudy –

BE

Visited: November 2018 Reviewed: Nov 18, 2018

Email Timmerman Trudy | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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4/5

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It is a very beautiful park but if you have done safari's in Kenya or Tanzania you might be a little bit disappointed not to see hirds of zebra's or giraffes because they are simple not there. On the other hand, the Kazinga Channel was just wonderful and the scenery is wonderful.

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Martin O'Sullivan –

SA

Visited: August 2018 Reviewed: Sep 9, 2018

Email Martin O'Sullivan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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4/5

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Good selection of animals and some of the Big 5 too. Lots of buffalo, hippo, and elephant by the river. Stay in the right place and you will have them right beside your room.

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