Ishasha Tree-Climbing Lions
Track one of Africa’s few lion prides known to climb into sycamore fig trees, often found draped along the branches through the midday heat.
Queen Elizabeth National Park spans the floor of the Rift Valley, where savannah, crater lakes and the Kazinga Channel meet in one of Uganda’s most varied landscapes. Its Ishasha sector is one of only a handful of places in Africa where lions climb into fig trees to rest through the heat of the day.
The Kazinga Channel, linking Lakes Edward and George, draws some of the densest hippo and buffalo concentrations on the continent, best seen from a slow boat at dawn or dusk. Crater lakes and open plains fill the rest of a park built for unhurried game drives.
Track one of Africa’s few lion prides known to climb into sycamore fig trees, often found draped along the branches through the midday heat.
Drift along the narrow channel between Lakes Edward and George past hippo pods, buffalo herds and elephants that gather along the shoreline to drink.
Wind through the volcanic crater field south of Mweya, where dozens of small lakes sit in forested hollows below the Rwenzori foothills.
Descend into the ‘Valley of Apes,’ a steep forested gorge cut into the savannah, to track a habituated chimpanzee community.
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