​User Reviews – Queen Elizabeth NP

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Audrey Kinter   –  
United States US
Visited: February 2023 Reviewed: Mar 20, 2023

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

Overall rating
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.

Hannele   –  
Finland FI
Visited: January 2023 Reviewed: Feb 3, 2023

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

Overall rating
4/5

Interesting place.

Simon Ward   –  
United Kingdom UK
Visited: September 2022 Reviewed: Oct 7, 2022

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

Overall rating
4/5

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

PI   –  
Germany DE
Visited: August 2022 Reviewed: Sep 19, 2022

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

Overall rating
4/5

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

Zsolt Banyai   –  
Hungary 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!
Overall rating
4/5

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.

Daudi   –  
Uganda UG
Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Jan 30, 2020

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

Overall rating
4/5

Spotted hippos, elephants, lions, buffalo etc

Cheri   –  
United States US
Visited: September 2019 Reviewed: Dec 6, 2019

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

Overall rating
4/5

Could not find the tree climbing lions

Timmerman Trudy   –  
Belgium BE
Visited: November 2018 Reviewed: Nov 18, 2018

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

Overall rating
4/5

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.

Martin O'Sullivan   –  
Saudi Arabia SA
Visited: August 2018 Reviewed: Sep 9, 2018

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

Overall rating
4/5

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.

Diego Higuera   –  
Colombia CO
Visited: July 2018 Reviewed: Aug 10, 2018

Email Diego Higuera  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Overall rating
4/5

A place to see especially elephants and hippos, it is very difficult to see lions on the trees, because you do not see many lions.

Average User Rating

  • 4.3/5
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