What Are Some Of The Fun Facts About Queen Elizabeth National Park?
What Are Some Of The Fun Facts About Queen Elizabeth National Park? Queen Elizabeth national park is located in the Eastern region in the country in Kasese district and it is situated at the back of the Rwenzori Mountains, which embraces tourists with classic views of the beautiful crater lakes. This national park is considered to be the 2nd largest national park in the country and it was gazetted in 1952 along with Murchison falls national park however, during that time it was known as Kazinga channel. More so, Queen Elizabeth national park is noted to be the most visited national park compared to all other game parks in the country and this is because it is a home to the tree-climbing lions, which are known to only be spotted within this park only. Therefore, these lions act as the main attraction within the park and attract many people to travel from different parts of the world with an aim of tracking them hence leading to a great development of the tourism industry of Uganda.
Queen Elizabeth National park crosses over around four more districts and these include; Kamwenge, Rubirizi, Runkungiri, and kasese hence covering a total surface area of about 1978 square kilometers. However, there are so many fun facts about this national park that tourists who would love to explore through should know and some of these include;
Fun facts about Queen Elizabeth National park.
Wildlife animals.
Queen Elizabeth National park is not only known to be a home to the tree climbing lions but also it is a home to over 95 mammal species such as; buffalos, African elephants, hippos, bush bucks, leopards waterbucks, crocodiles, Oribi, Uganda Kobs, giant forest hogs, warthogs among others. this national park is also one of the best destination where to spot some of the endangered primate species such as; black and white colobus monkeys, baboons, red tailed monkeys, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, vervet monkeys, chimpanzees and Kyambura Gorge is the area where to spot these species in large numbers.
More so, Queen Elizabeth National park also harbours around 619 bird species and some of these bird species happen to be endemic birds, forest birds, migratory birds, savannah birds, aquatic birds among others. therefore, these birds include; Spur winged plover, open billed stork, black crake, African fish eagle, African Jacana, long tailed cormorant, pied king fisher, heron, squacco, white backed pelican and many others.
Attractions in Queen Elizabeth National park.
Queen Elizabeth National park has got so many attractions which make it ranked and considered to be among the best tourist destinations in Africa and some of these include; the tree climbing lions which are commonly referred to as the Cactus climbing lions and they are taken as the major attraction within the park which can be best spotted within the Ishasha sector that is the Southern region of the park, tourists can also tour around lake katwe which is known to be a salt lake where they get chances to watch all the salt mining processes, Kazinga channel which is known to be about a 32 kilometer waterbody that connects lake Edward and Lake George and Lake Katwe Explosion craters which are marked as the highest point of Queen Elizabeth National park which stand at an elevated area of about 1350 meters above the sea level, Volcanic cranes and the Maragambo forest which is known to be a natural forest that is located within the park and it stretches from the escarpments of Kichwamba to Lake Edward.
Activities done in Queen Elizabeth National park.
Touring and exploring within Queen Elizabeth National park blesses tourist’s wit great opportunities to engage in several interesting activities where they get to create remarkable memories and learn new experiences. Therefore some of these activities include; Game drives which are considered to be a popular activity that is participated by many people within the park and they can be done in two sessions that is in the morning and in the evening and they are best conducted within areas like; Mweya Peninsular, Kasenyi plains and within the ishasha sector. Tourists can also engage in guided nature walks where they are always accompanied with the park guides as they walk through the beautiful landscape, as you might see the beautiful vegetation type, wildlife species, listen to the beautiful of the birds singing and enjoy the cold breeze of the fresh atmosphere, bird watching which happens to be an exciting activity to tourists who happen to be bird lovers, chimpanzee trekking which is considered to be the most done activity done in Uganda after Gorilla trekking which is best conducted within Mgahinga Gorilla national park and Bwindi Impenetrable national park, community visits, cultural encounters, lion tracking, visiting caves such as the bat caves, hot air ballooning and many others.
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