Uganda · East Africa
Queen Elizabeth and Ishasha.
Queen Elizabeth is Uganda's most visited savannah park, and the Ishasha sector in its south is known for lions that rest in fig trees.
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The Kazinga Channel between Lakes Edward and George gives one of the best boat safaris in East Africa for hippo, buffalo and birds. The park sits beneath the Rwenzori and holds a set of explosion craters that are worth the drive on their own.
Ishasha is the natural stop between the savannah and Bwindi, which is how most itineraries link the gorillas to the game.
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Elsewhere in Uganda
- Bwindi Impenetrable ForestBwindi holds around half the world's mountain gorillas and is where most Ugandan itineraries are built to reach.
- Kibale and the crater lakesKibale has the densest chimpanzee population in Africa, and the crater-lake country around it is some of the prettiest in Uganda.
- Murchison Falls and the northMurchison is where the Nile is forced through a gorge seven metres wide and falls into the Albert Nile below.
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