TRAVEL UGANDA // QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK // TRIP (2017)
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UGANDA - Queen Elizabeth Park and surroundings
UGANDA // QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK // TRIP (2017)
Nice and affordable place where you can stay:
1. Red Chilli Hideaway
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2. Kyambura Gorge Lodge
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3. Marafiki Safari Lodge
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4. Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge
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5. Ishasha Wilderness Camp - Queen Elizabeth National Park
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Most tourists who come to Uganda visit more than one destination. You can combine your Queen Elizabeth safari with gorilla trekking safaris in Bwindi, or tour Murchison Falls National Park. For relaxation after your wildlife safari, you can visit Ssese Islands but if you are more interested in adventure, take on rafting on the nile, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale, Rwenzori Mountains climbing and Mount elgon hike.
Queen Elizabeth National Park occupies an estimated 1,978 square kilometres (764 sq mi). The park extends from Lake George in the north-east to Lake Edward in the south-west and includes the Kazinga Channel connecting the two lakes.
The park was founded in 1952 as Kazinga National Park. It was renamed two years later to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is known for its wildlife, including Cape buffaloes, hippopotami, crocodiles, elephants, leopards, lions, and chimpanzees. It is home to 95 mammal species and over 500 species of birds. The area around Ishasha in Rukungiri District is famous for its tree-climbing lions, whose males sport black manes. Poachers killed six elephants in the park in 2015, triggering both anger and frustration within the Ugandan conservation community.
The park is also famous for its volcanic features, including volcanic cones and deep craters, many with crater lakes, such as the Katwe craters, from which salt is extracted.
Services in the park include a telecenter run by Conservation Through Public Health and the Uganda Wildlife Authority, neighboring the Queen's Pavilion, park lodges, game and scenic drives, and boat launches.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK // TRIP TO UGANDA // DAY 2 (2017)
QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK // TRIP TO UGANDA // DAY 2 (2017)
Nice and affordable place where you can stay:
1. Red Chilli Hideaway
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2. Kyambura Gorge Lodge
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3. Marafiki Safari Lodge
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4. Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge
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5. Ishasha Wilderness Camp - Queen Elizabeth National Park
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Again we would like to take this opportunity to thank Red Chilli Hideaway, for the wonderful trip and specialty Mr Hassan Nsubuga, our driver, ranger, organizer and friend! Thank you!
Our trip to Uganda took 10 days, and I'm sure I'll never forget it. On the top of the cake was the company of two of my sons, Marta and João, since Joana couldn't come due to her busy work agenda. Finally a great thanks to Carlos, long time true friend who, with Red Chilli Hideaway have designed the trip.
This is the second video of a serie of video I'll produce, and I pretend to give you a quick feel of this wonderful and friendly country, UGANDA!
Most tourists who come to Uganda visit more than one destination. You can combine your Queen Elizabeth safari with gorilla trekking safaris in Bwindi, or tour Murchison Falls National Park. For relaxation after your wildlife safari, you can visit Ssese Islands but if you are more interested in adventure, take on rafting on the nile, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale, Rwenzori Mountains climbing and Mount elgon hike.
Queen Elizabeth National Park occupies an estimated 1,978 square kilometres (764 sq mi). The park extends from Lake George in the north-east to Lake Edward in the south-west and includes the Kazinga Channel connecting the two lakes.
The park was founded in 1952 as Kazinga National Park. It was renamed two years later to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is known for its wildlife, including Cape buffaloes, hippopotami, crocodiles, elephants, leopards, lions, and chimpanzees. It is home to 95 mammal species and over 500 species of birds. The area around Ishasha in Rukungiri District is famous for its tree-climbing lions, whose males sport black manes. Poachers killed six elephants in the park in 2015, triggering both anger and frustration within the Ugandan conservation community.
The park is also famous for its volcanic features, including volcanic cones and deep craters, many with crater lakes, such as the Katwe craters, from which salt is extracted.
Services in the park include a telecenter run by Conservation Through Public Health and the Uganda Wildlife Authority, neighboring the Queen's Pavilion, park lodges, game and scenic drives, and boat launches.
Credits for the song to:
Song: African Skies
Composer: Stephen J. Anderson
AFRICA AIR
from Rocket Surgery under Creative Commons License
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Travel Video: Queen Elizabeth National Park. Uganda Africa Animal Safari
Travel Video: Queen Elizabeth National Park. Uganda Africa Animal Safari.
Queen Elizabeth National Park occupies an estimated 1,978 square kilometers (764 sq mi). The park area extends from Lake George in the northeast to Lake Edward in the southwest, and includes the Kazinga Channel that connects the two lakes.
The park was founded in 1952 as Kazinga National Park. It was renamed two years later to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II.
QENP is known for its wildlife, including hippopotami, elephants, African leopards, Congo lions, and chimpanzees. It is home to 95 species of mammal and over 500 species of birds. The area around Ishasha in Rukungiri District is famous for its tree-climbing lions, whose males sport black manes. Poachers killed five or six elephants in the park in 2015, triggering both anger and frustration within the Ugandan conservation community.
The park is also famous for its volcanic features, including volcanic cones and deep craters, many with crater lakes, such as the Katwe craters, from which salt is extracted.
QENP includes the Maramagambo Forest and borders the Kigezi Game Reserve, the Kyambura Game Reserve, and the Kibale National Park in Uganda, and the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
QENP and the Queen Elizabeth Country Park in England are twinned in a project of cultural exchange, mutual support and has its main emphasis on supporting Conservation through working closely with and empowering local communities.
Services in the park include a telecenter run by Conservation Through Public Health and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (neighboring The Queen's Pavilion), park lodges, game and scenic drives, and boat launches.
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Touring East Africa, late 1950's. Archive film 14419
Amateur home movie of African journey. Uganda. East Africa. Kenya.
Uganda. Africa. East African Airways passenger plane is on the tarmac. The stairs are moved away and the plane taxis. A manor house or colonial hotel set in tropical gardens. View beside a lake or wide river. A small city with dirt roads. A Government looking building and view over a town from a hill. A mosque. Driver’s POV from a vehicle as it drives along a straight rural dirt road, past a village. The wall of a dam. Local Ugandan woman with baby. Interior of a hydro-electric dam and gushing water. A map. A pointer marks Kigali and traces a line across the country to Lake Edouard, then up to the Murchison Falls National Park and back to Kigali. View through car windscreen as a the vehicle travels at speed along a straight rural road. The crossing of the equator in Uganda. Birds. Many bird nests hanging from a tree. Long horned cattle. Sign for the Ankole Hotel, Mbarara. Birds and flowers in the hotel’s grounds. Flat landscape views that are very dark. Another sign for the Queen Elizabeth National Park and Mweya Lodge. Footage is very dark. Elephant with large tusks. Antelopes. Mweya Safair Lodge sign and film of the lodge’s huts and cottages. View across Lake Edouard. Panning views of the lake. Wildlife footage of elephants, birds, hippos which is all very dark. Wildlife in the grasslands. Some buffalo close ups. A small settlement beside a small lake with partially built wooden huts. A roadside building with a gathering of people outside is filmed from a moving car. Storks stand around on the grass. A lakeside village. Remnants of old fires. A man stirs food in a pan over an open fire. Birdlife around the shore of a lake. A large monitor lizard. More storks wading and feeding, as viewed from a boat trip. River or lake safari trip. Pelicans, fish eagle, elephants hippos. More birds in flight. Lions in the shade of a tree. More safari wildlife. A plaque commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Kikorongo in 1954. View of Queens Pavilion lake and what looks like flamingos in the far distant shoreline. Footage from a moving vehicle. More gardens and far reaching rural views. Brief clip of what looks like school children in a playground. Tea plantation and workers picking tea. Large round boulders in the landscape. A dead snake lies in the dirt. Nearby locals are working in tall grass, perhaps a cane field.
A roadside picnic while some local Ugandans turn up. A small boy is riding a home made wooden scooter on the dirt road. The tourists’ car departs passing two young children carrying large water pots on their heads. View of some local shops from the moving car.
Sign for Murchison Falls National Park. Ants swarming on the ground. Elephants. Antelopes. Various views and angles of Murchison Falls with white water raging through gaps in the boulders. A rainbow is clearly visible in the spray from the falls. Back to wildlife footage including elephants and birds. Car boards a ferry for crossing the Victoria Nile river. The ferry departs fully laden with two cars on board and is watched as it paddles into the river. Two people wait at the ramshackle jetty for its return. The tourists’ car drives up the rickety planks and onto the ferry. Filming from the ferry as it crosses the river.
A very neat and tidy local hut. River views. More elephants. Brief glimpse of village huts. Passenger boats parked beside a small jetty. River wildlife cruise with some very good footage of hippos close up and crocodiles, some are very large. Elephants and deer beside the river. Brief driver’s POV from a land rover on safari through grasslands at dusk. More wildlife but all quite dark – elephants, antelope and crested cranes and ibis.
A precarious ferry boarding with a car, for another river crossing. The car has to drive into the water to get on the boat. On the other side of the river the car is towed off by a jeep or 4WD.
Local people line either side of a dirt road, some with bicycles. Some are dressed in what looks like a school uniform. People are all wearing green and seem to be waiting for the arrival of someone. Huge long horned cattle at the roadside. Short clip of activity in a village. A lady wearing a long colourful dress and carrying a small child runs towards the camera. Flowering trees.
East African Airways plane on the tarmac. Plane takes off from Entebbe Airport, as filmed from inside the aircraft. The word Entebbe is painted in white beside the runway.
View of a map showing Lake Victoria and a pointer that points to Kenya. Aerial views across Lake Victoria. Kenya. A lodge or hotel with cars parked outside. The entrance gates to Nairobi National Park. Various views of wildlife spotted whilst on a safari drive in the park – zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, storks, antelopes of various kinds, lions, jackals or wild dogs and baboons.
Queen Elizabeth National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:08 1 Location
00:00:55 2 Overview
00:02:37 3 Twinning
00:03:02 4 See also
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