Boat cruise in queen elizabeth national park
Boat cruise in queen elizabeth national park : Queen Elizabeth National Park is located in the western part of Uganda extending to kasese and Rukungiri district. The park is approximately 400km by road from Kampala to kasese making it a 6-7hours drive. Queen Elizabeth National park was known as kazinga channel park and later on it was named Queen Elizabeth National Park after the honour visit of Queen Elizabeth of England and King George VI in 1939. The park is famous for the tree climbing lions, 10 primate species e.g. chimpanzees ,618 bird species foreaxmple and 95 mammals like hippopotamus, leopards, African buffaloes and elephants e.tc.
Boat cruise in queen elizabeth national park
Queen Elizabeth National Park has an activity that is done known as BOAT CRUISE which takes place along Kazinga channel. It’s a water channel that connects Lake George and Lake Edward where by it is 40km long stream located beneath the Mweya peninsular near Mweya safari lodge.
The boat cruise at kazinga channel is a mind-blowing experience that makes tourists to want more of Queen Elizabeth park because of the hilarious wild life that is witnessed while on the boat and the fresh air that blows it’s a relaxing moment very memorable.
The kazinga channel boat cruise takes about 1-2hours as its being led by professional guides .These guides are in position to answer all the questions need or being asked by the tourists before and after stepping on to the boat cruise .Most of all you get to know the history of kazinga channel before setting off . The guides give out the rules and regulations that are to be followed while on the cruise to have a safe and fantastic cruise along the channel.
The cruise is done twice within a day where by it starts at 11:00am and ends at 1:00pm, the other starts at 2pm to 5pm. Though a times l0vplno oh…. .o. o. 0due to the high demand of tourists it can be done more than two times so as to make tourists experience that spectacular moment along the kazinga channel so as to explore Uganda’s wildlife e.g. hippos, birds and reptiles plus the swampy areas of the channel.
while on the boat, you are able to see the hippopotamuses since they are many also bird watching since kazinga channel is reffred to as have of birds ring the waterbuck, along the shores of kazinga channel . As we continue we are able to see the Nile crocodiles since they are also many and we also able to spot grazing African buffaloes , Elephants and a times a lion taking water on the banks.
A boat cruise along kazinga channel costs ,30USD for the foreign non residents per person,25 USD per person for foreign residents and 30000 ug shilling’s for East African citizens. The boat ride gives a wonderful view of the fishing villages in the southern bank and mountains in the DRC .
Lastly but not list , Kazinga channel has boats available that can operate and make your trip memorable in all sorts of ways as long as your equipt with the gadget that won’t disappoint you . kazinga channel has government boats being managed by Uganda Wild Life Authority (UWA) and private boats managed by Marasa all these can be boarded . To make your trip thriving and roaring come to queen Elizabeth National Park you won’t regret it.
