Kazinga Channel Queen Elizabeth Park Uganda …
Kazinga Channel Queen Elizabeth Park Uganda …Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth Park has the Highest Concentration of Hippos in East Africa along with Elephant Herds, Buffaloes, Antelopes and thousands of birds are found along Kazinga Channel during a Boat Ride -2 hours of wildlife, reptiles and birds.
Kazinga Channel has been experienced by a multitude of people from all over the world as they have traveled by a slow boat from Mweya into Lake Edward. Kazinga Channel is a beautiful tapestry created by nature and those that come to visit it simply marvel at what they find. The boat launch has taken place since 1952 and for many it was their favorite time at Queen Elizabeth Park.
Today you can take the two-hour slow boat ride along the edge of the channel and see about a third of the hippo population of Queen Elizabeth park amounting to over 1,600 hippos. That alone is simply incredibly and those hefty creatures are simply amazing and if you are staying in the Mweya area you can hear them munching the grass at night.
You just might find herds of elephants as large as one hundred at the edge of Kazinga channel and you are only meters away from them in the boat which is an incredible experience as they come to water and bathe in the channel and you are just a few meters from them and not only them what is amazing about Kazinga Channel is that the wildlife, the antelopes, buffaloes, crocodiles, monitor lizards – the incredible number of birds all around – are all intermingled.
When it comes to crocodiles, there were none in Queen Elizabeth Park and Kazinga Channel for eight to ten thousand years. It is only since the middle of the last century that crocodiles reappeared in Queen Elizabeth Park as paths opened for them from the Semliki River to Lake Edward and beyond.
Birders can easily spot 60 species of birds in the time of a two-hour boat launch trip along Kazinga Channel – there are not too many places in the world where that is possible. The birds found along the channel are mostly water birds which include the Great White and Pink-Backed Pelicans, African Shoebill, Yellow Billed Stork, Great and Long Tailed Cormorants, Open-Billed Stork, Saddle Bill Stork, Darters, Black Crake and Jacana.
Keep your camera ready at all times since during this two-hour boat ride there is much to behold and one could easily miss a photo-opportunity.
You can rent a smaller boat through the Mweya Safari Lodge and take a private boat ride, the boats are covered and have the most comfortable time along the Channel – take in the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth Park with all of its natural wonders that a boat safari on the Kazinga Channel has become known for. Visitors from around the world see the Boat Safari on the Channel as one of he highlights of their time in Uganda.
If you would like to include the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth Park in your safari with us – please let us know.
