Getting to Queen Elizabeth,Vacation Ideas, Travel and Safari Trip Africa

February 26, 2008

How to get there.
The park can be reached by air or road. However, driving is more rewarding using the tarmac road  of Mbarara-Kasese-Fort portal highway, which runs through the centre of the park. Passing  through Mweya is just 22km from the main tourism hub.

The park can also be accessible from the South via Mbarara when coming from Kampala for 420km  and 410km via Fort Portal in the North.
These two routes can be accompanied by visits to Lake Mburo and Kibale National Park as well as  Semuliki National Park.
Bwindi National Park is also another alternative for one to reach the park from the South.

The park can also be easily accessible by use of Charter flights on the airstrips of Kasese,  Ishasha and Mweya.

Flora and Fauna:
Queen Elizabeth National Park supports a tremendous diversity of 95 mammal species and 612 bird  species as well as 57 types of vegetation being categorized into 5 divisions of swamp, bushy,  grassland, acacia woodland and forests.
Habitants on the park’s grassland are elephants, Uganda kob, giant forest hog, leopard, lions,  hyena, waterbuck, Cape buffalo, warthog and giant forest hog, while in Ishasha we find the topi  as well as the forest primates in Kyambura Gorge.

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