3 Days Queen Elizabeth Wildlife Tour

We set out early, while the park is cool and quiet and the animals are most active. In fact, this is when you are most likely to catch predators still on the move. Your guide drives the network of tracks through open savannah and scrubland. Along the way, we stop wherever something is worth seeing. It might be a kob herd grazing close to the road, a pride of lions resting in the shade or a forest hog crossing ahead. Sightings vary by the day. Still, between the kobs, warthogs, buffalo and the chance of lions or leopards, there is rarely a quiet stretch.

After lunch back at the lodge, we head down to the water for a two-hour boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel. This narrow channel links Lake Edward and Lake George, and it is where the day earns its reputation. The boat moves slowly along the banks. So, you get close to hippos wallowing in pods, elephants drinking and bathing at the water’s edge, and buffalo herds cooling off in the shallows. Crocodiles lie still on the sandbanks, and hundreds of storks and pelicans crowd the shore. Meanwhile, bee-eaters and weaverbirds busily work the reeds along the bank.

Accommodation: The Bush Lodge