Lion tracking in Queen Elizabeth National Park

Lion tracking in Queen Elizabeth National Park : Lion tracking is an additional massive experience carried out at Queen Elizabeth National Park. The lion tracking encounter is designed for pride devotees who choose not to miss out on watching these lions on their Uganda safari. This encounter goes beyond the normal lion encounter on any of the adventure trips and in Uganda it’s a one-way adventure experience with assurance of seeing a pride.

Clients travel far from the Queen Elizabeth national park tracks and assist a group of field researchers keep track of the way of life of inhabitant pride of lions! This captivating experience takes you beyond the normal African safari game drive experience as you acquire knowledge on how to point out individual lions, differentiate between behaviour displays, and carryout population viability studies.

The Lion tracking encounter can only be done in Queen Elizabeth national park situated in the northern sector of the park “Kasenyi section”. The trackers are tied to the necks of the lions and it is the trackers that give signals to the rangers on the current location of the lions. During the lion predator tracking experience, trackers always drive off the truck to find the predators whenever the signals would be directing.

Queen Elizabeth national park is among Uganda’s most captivating savannah parks and the park is very famous of its ecological diversity which is comprised of breathtaking wildlife experience among which include the Ishasha tree climbing lion, chimpanzee tracking at Kyambura gorge, games drive Kasenyi ad Ishasha, launch cruise along the Kazinga channel, katwe salt formation experience, birding in lion tracking experience.

This exceptional wildlife encounter is classified under experiential tourism which is at the moment running as non profit adventure activity. In Uganda, the experiential tourism activities now apply to Queen Elizabeth National Park and the applicable activities at the moment include lion tracking, mongoose tracking, bird counts and Hippo census. This exceptional encounter was set up for wildlife lovers who prefer getting very close to nature by getting involved in research, monitoring or even acquiring knowledge on how the habituation of the uncommon fauna is done. Lion tracking glitter for both lions and leopards invest further digs in researching encounters with a result of knowledgeable researchers who guide on looking for the lions with a guide of a blend of locators and radio collars drawing close to the cats.

Queen Elizabeth national park is a home to Uganda’s highest number of lions, however, on a normal game drive adventure the chances of seeing a lion are limited. Additionally, the leopard village is an extra predator tracking section, the village is among the communities in Queen National Elizabeth Park where “UCP” operates experiential tourism.

On an experiential lion tracking experience, a restricted number of trackers as the encounter can carry on to off truck drives connect researchers from “UCP” utilising UWA safari vehicles. This adventure can last long (approximately 3 hours) and the encounter is more of a study safari where clients are in position to gather the information, learning more on the troop’s ways of life and lifestyle.

To participate lion tracking experiential encounter, tourists must reserve and pay through the program at Uganda Wildlife Authority information centre at Mweya not less than 24 hours before. The lion tracking experience in Queen Elizabeth national park cost USD100 for foreign non-residents and 100,000 Ugsh for Ugandans and East African members.

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