Best time to Visit Queen Elizabeth National Park

Best time to Visit Queen Elizabeth National Park

Best time to Visit Queen Elizabeth National Park: Queen Elizabeth National Park is the second largest national park in southwestern Uganda. It is in the Kasese district, Rubirzi, Kamwenge, and Rukungiri districts. It is one of those national parks that tourists mostly visit in Uganda. The park has a wide diversity of wildlife wonders. Queen Elizabeth National Park is home to about 95 wildlife mammals. These include elephants, famous tree-climbing lions, the large herds of the African cape buffaloes, and sitatunga antelopes. Others include herds of zebras and hippos among others. Also, the park has primates such as the popular chimpanzees, baboons, red-tailed monkeys, and white-and-black colobus monkeys. There are also baboons and about 620 bird species.

Besides the wildlife animals and bird species that survive in the open savannah and forest vegetation, the park is home to the wonderful crater lakes, the scenic views of the Kazinga channel that separates Lake Edward and Lake George plus the scenic views of the Mweya peninsular.

What is the best time to visit Queen Elizabeth National Park?

A biodiversity of savannah grassland, and savannah woodlands dominate Queen Elizabeth National Park. There is also the forest vegetation cover in Kyambura Gorge sector of the park. Kyambura Gorge is a famous home to amazing chimpanzees as well as other primates.

Generally, Uganda has two climate seasons, the dry season and the rainy season, that the country experiences in two phases annually.  There is the long dry season which is from mid-June to mid-October. The short dry season runs from December to February. While, we also have a long rainy season during March, April, May, and early June. A short rainy season comes in the months of late October to November when it is raining so heavily. This happens throughout the year. The climate changes/ seasons have great impacts on the number of travelers who visit Queen Elizabeth National Park every year.

The Dry Season

The dry season: this is the best time to visit Queen Elizabeth National Park. There are warm temperatures or sometimes hot, roads used to access the park during this period. Roads are not wet and slippery, but rather passable. You can view the animals easily at the water collection points when they are in large numbers taking water. During the dry season trekking chimpanzees in Kyambura George will be fascinating as you’ll be walking on the dry grounds.

The dry season is also popular as the peak season for the Uganda wildlife safaris. Therefore, there are large crowds of travelers flooding into the country. They come to enjoy wildlife viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park during this period. This makes the accommodation lodge to be scarce and full. This usually forces safari lodges to raise their accommodation rates due to the high demand. Thus, travelers have to book in advance so that they don’t miss out on the accommodation facilities.

The wet season

However, during the rainy season, it is the vice-versa. The roads leading to Queen Elizabeth National Park are slippery and muddy. Therefore, vehicles find it difficult to go through the savannah plains. At the same time, few travelers are coming to visit Queen Elizabeth National Park.  The hotels have less occupancy thus they give discounts on accommodation rates to travelers. Tour operators also give discounts to travelers visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park gives you an insight to enjoy viewing the African big-5 wildlife animals on game safari. These include tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector and the giant elephants in plenty in Queen Elizabeth National Park. You also see the cape buffalos and leopards. Book with Safari vacations and Travel Services to the Uganda safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

We also take you for gorilla safaris and other wildlife experiences.