Camp077- Queen Elizabeth National Park
Camp077 - Queen Elizabeth Forest National Park - home of the Mountain Gorilla!
The Queen Elizabeth National Park is located near the southern most point of the mist-covered Rwenzori Mountains. This beautiful game reserve boasts one of the world’s highest biodiversity ratings, and offers rainforests, swamps, crater lakes, and a lush savannah that is home to nearly 100 mammal species and almost 600 species of birds. High concentrations of buffalo, elephant, and antelope call this park home, as well as the Uganda Kob, the elusive giant forest hog, tree-climbing lion, habituated chimpanzee, and several other primates, including various forest monkeys. The views of the mountain escarpments are breathtaking, and the unique ecosystem of this are is unparalleled.
This is a wonderful national park, sometimes dubbed 'the Pearl of Africa or Switzerland of Africa'. Quite simply this fertile equatorial area is especially scenic, with two lakes connected by a channel overlooked by a high peninsula. You will also find volcanic craters, grassy plains and tropical forest. As a result it has one of the highest biodiversity ratings in the world.
Hunting exhibits such as stuffed lions, leopard skins, deer heads and elephants tusks may still be found adorning some hotels and lodges, but the emphasis is certainly more on shooting with a camera these days. Much of Uganda's wildlife was poached out in the past, especially elephants, but now the area is protected and elephants numbers are boosted by those entering the park from the Congo, where poaching is still a problem.
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