Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi National Park compare and contrast

Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi National Park compare and contrast : You know it’s not very uncommon to have a Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park safari, because of how close in proxy these two parks are to each other. Usually, tourists would want to kill two birds with one stone, trek the gorillas and see the tree climbing lions in one safari. So, they will visit a Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

So why do the tourists visit both parks in a single safari, in this article we compare and contrast the two parks.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is a savannah grassland park with animals like the big five elephants, lions, buffaloes, leopards, and others kobs, zebras, giraffes, antelopes, impalas, topis and many more savannah animals but most famously the unique and rare tree climbing lions. Well as the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a mountain gorilla park, forested and mountainous with mostly the gorillas and a few other bush species like the bush elephants other than, you will only see the gorillas in this beautiful park.

Though they are said to be in close proxy these parks are actually located in different sides of Uganda Queen Elizabeth National Park is located in the Western part of Uganda in the districts of Kasese, Kamwenge, Rubirizi, and Rukungiri and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is located in the Southwestern part of Uganda in only Kanungu District.

Though Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is divided into four trekking sectors that is buhoma, ruhijja, nkuringo and rushaga the park is only 327 km² (126 sq mi) big as Queen Elizabeth National Park is 1,978 km² (764 sq mi) big.

Because the gorillas live in high altitudes Bwindi Impenetrable National Park stands at 1,190-2,607 meters (3,900-8,553 ft) above sea level as Queen Elizabeth National Park stands at 480-1,450 meters (1,575-4,757 ft) above sea level.

The parks have the same weather or climate if we may say two rainy seasons and two dry seasons however Bwindi Impenetrable National Park stays humid, Cool and misty all throughout the year, due to the higher altitude.

As stated at the start because Queen Elizabeth National Park is a savannah park the major activity will be game drives to see the numerous animals in the park and other activities will be lion tracking, boat ride on the kazinga channel, bird watching, chimpanzee trekking in the kyambura gorge and others in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park apart from mountain gorilla trekking, you will have bird watching, mountain climbing, quad biking and community tours among other things.

Other notable features about Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the waterfalls most popular are the Munyaga Falls that you can visit though you they are not always visited. Queen Elizabeth National Park has no water falls but has some crater lakes you can visit if you wish to.

A safari to any of the two parks Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park can be visited independently in not less than 3 days and if you combine the safari is will be 5 to 6 days of your safari trip. The safari can be budget, mid range or luxury any is good.

Well, that basically most of the comparison we can do for now, if you have questions about the two parks, you can always contact your tour operator for more and specific information.Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi National Park compare and contrast