3 Days Queen Elizabeth Safari(Tree Climbing Lions)

3 Days Queen Elizabeth Safari

Itinerary Overview

This three-day safari is your fast track into one of Uganda’s most iconic national parks, a known tree-climbing destination, big 4 encounter including elephants stroll across crater valleys, and the Kazinga Channel becomes a parade of hippos, crocs, and birds in full color. Ideal for short trips, romantic escapes, or anyone craving raw wilderness within reach.

Summary Itinerary

• Day 1: Transfer from Kampala/Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth – Evening Game Drive
• Day 2: Sunrise Game Drive – Kazinga Channel Boat Safari
• Day 3: Optional Crater Drive or Chimp Trekking – Return to Kampala/Entebbe

Day 1: Into the Wild – Arrival at Queen Elizabeth

You leave Kampala or Entebbe after breakfast, and the city slowly fades into green. The road winds through banana farms, tea plantations, and local villages where children wave from red-dust paths.

By afternoon, you reach Queen Elizabeth National Park, where the air feels different—softer, warmer, full of wild promise.

Check in at your lodge, then head out for your first game drive as the sun dips low. Uganda kob graze in the fading light. Elephants sway across the savanna. And if you’re lucky, a leopard, a lion pride might be watching from a fig tree, tails twitching in the shadows.

Accommodation in Queen Elizabeth:

• Budget: Pumba Safari Cottages
• Standard: Buffalo Safari Lodge / Engiri Game Lodge
• Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge

Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 2: Game Drives & River Drama on the Kazinga Channel

Wake up early, just as the savanna begins to stir. With the dawn mist still clinging to the grass, you head into Kasenyi Plains—a predator playground. You might catch a leopard slinking through the thickets or hyenas returning from a night hunt.

After the encounter, proceed for an afternoon of relaxing boat ride encounter. You board the boat, camera ready. Crocodiles bask on muddy banks. Hippos grunt and bubble beside the hull. Elephants drink lazily from the edge. Kingfishers flash electric blue. This is not a zoo—this is nature’s theatre, and every moment is unscripted.

Return to your lodge just as the sky begins to turn orange.

Accommodation in Queen Elizabeth:

• Budget: Pumba Safari Cottages
• Standard: Buffalo Safari Lodge / Engiri Game Lodge
• Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 3: Crater Lakes & Farewell to the Wild

Today is your final adventure that begins with a choice:
• Take a crater drive through dramatic volcanic scenery, stopping at lookout points where the land folds into ancient scars.
• Or opt for an early chimpanzee tracking experience in Kalinzu Forest (optional upgrade)—listening for whoops in the canopy and watching as a family of chimps swings and feeds through the trees.

After a warm farewell meal, begin your return journey to Kampala or Entebbe, arriving by early evening with dust on your boots and wildness in your eyes.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Three Days. One Park. A Thousand Memories.
Lions. Elephants. Hippos. Craters. Birdsongs at dawn and sunsets behind acacias. This isn’t a checklist. It’s a chapter in your story. Ready to begin?