Christmas Tour
Queen Elizabeth National Park is the ideal vacation spot for your Christmas travel to Uganda. Ranked as the best national park in Uganda, Queen Elizabeth’s is found in the western part of the country. The undulating landscape of the national park is blessed with many gifts from mother nature; the view of the mountain Rwenzori Ranges, the large Savannah vegetation with a strip of a rain forest of Kyambura Gorge to a varied unique selection of mammals and special bird species some of which are even internationally recognized.
Indeed, the Christmas tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park is a festive package for one to be jolly with a range of seasonal activities to participate in during your stay in one of the lodging facilities dispersed all across the national park.
From the hotel you selected for your Christmas Tour, you may wake up in the African wilderness and see the stunning Rwenzori mountain ranges surrounding queen Elizabeth national park. In the wet season, December included, the great open savannah is quite breathtaking.
You could start your wildlife drive early in the morning and choose to have a bush breakfast as well. Queen Elizabeth National Park guarantees an amazing game viewing experience. Among the other 99 animal species found in the park— Buffaloes, lions, chimpanzees, antelopes, hippos, elephants, leopards, Topis, Statungas—the park is naturally endowed with a range of flora and wildlife. It is also blessed with a range of birds, some of which are migratory species flying to Uganda in Europe’s Christmas season.
A drive across the northern Kazinga channel and Kasenyi plains guarantees Buffaloes grazing, herds of Uganda Kobs, warthogs and maybe a herd of elephants crossing the road on your Christmas tour in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Sometimes you will find a leopard inside a shrub during your wildlife drive; your tour guide will assist you to spot the lions in Kasenyi grasslands or a pride of a lioness and some cabs looking for food. Regarding the Ishasha tree climbing lions, They are well-known since they are rare tree climbing lions only seen in Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth national park and occasionally in Lake Manyara national park in Tanzania. Your festive game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park will provide an exciting experience.
Following your lunch at Tembo Restaurant of Mweya Safari Lodge in the afternoon, you will be delighted by the well-known Kazinga boat landing. From the guest points of view from the Kazinga boat excursion, the pinnacle of any amazing and outstanding Ugandan safari. Along Kazinga channel you can see a lot of animals including a number of schools/groups of hippos, snapping crocodiles, elephant herds showering on the river bank, and lucky enough you can spot a pride of lions. At Kazinga channel you will get a view of all wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Among the other birds you will encounter around Kazinga Channel are the toxic bee eater, kingfishers, cormorants, pink baked pelicans and fish eagle.
To Queen Elizabeth National Park at a reasonable price, several tour companies plan festive safaris (Christmas Tour). Some host barbecue parties, poolside roasting and camp fires among other fascinating African traditions of celebrating the so called birth of Jesus. Lodges like Mweya safari resort typically conduct Christmas parties where you may participate and move to the African groove during the weekend.
