Prices range from $120-$580

Twin Lakes Safari Lodge is located outside Queen Elizabeth National Park in a rustic and intimate setting in beautiful surroundings within Bunyaruguru's great crater field in southwestern Uganda. Twin Lakes Safari stands 270 m above the plains, providing a breath-taking view of the magnificent Queen Elizabeth National Park, Lake George, Lake Edward, the Mount Rwenzori ranges, Sunrise, and Sunset.Click here to view mountain gorilla trekking safaris.

Twin Lakes Safari Lodge is perched on the edge of the adjacent escarpment of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Its spectacular position offers the best views of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Click here to see our recommended mountain gorilla trekking safaris.

Twin Lakes Safari Lodge can accommodate up to twenty-two guests in their spacious nine cottages, including a family cottage. Twin Lakes Safari Cottages are designed with a feel of African culture in mind, are the perfect blend of comfort, and are well equipped with flushing toilets, hot running showers, and a spacious tub. Twin Lakes Safari Lodge cottages have private shaded verandas.

 Queen Elizabeth National Park is among the places that explains the description of Uganda as “the pearl of Africa.”. Queen Elizabeth National Park offers beautiful scenery with stunning forests, swamps, savannas, woodlands, lakes, gorges, rivers, craters, and landscapes. International tourists to Queen Elizabeth National Park can never run short of activities. The key tourist attractions include nature walks, game drives, boat trips on the Kazinga Channel, chimpanzee trekking, spotting tree-climbing lions, and bird watching. Tourists can see the big 4 mammals in Uganda, namely elephants, lions, cape buffaloes, and leopards.

Game Drives

Game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park are the most popular activity to be done that guarantees travelers will see 95 percent of animals. The game drive takes between 3-4 hours in the early morning, evening, or at night in any of the three sectors—the Kasenyi plains, which is situated near Kazinga Channel; along the Ishasha sector, searching for tree-climbing lions; or the Katwe crater fields.

Queen Elizabeth Game Drives takes tourists to see Uganda Kobs, impalas, antelopes, buffaloes, hyenas, lions, elephants, waterbucks, bushbucks, leopards, and warthogs, among many others.

Birdwatching

Queen Elizabeth National Park is considered an ideal destination for birding in Uganda. The full list of bird species in Queen Elizabeth National Park can be seen at the Bird Observatory in Mweya. Birdwatching can occur in locations like the Kazinga Channel, the plains, the craters, and Kyambura Gorge. Birding in Queen Elizabeth National Park is done at a certain season of the year when millions of migratory birds come to escape the harsh winters of Europe.

Queen Elizabeth National Park bird species include yellow-backed, winding, yellow wagtails; white-winged warblers; yellow-throated cuckoos; yellow-backed weavers; wood sandpipers; and Carruthers cisticolas, white-winged terns, African fish eagles, white-tailed larks, white-faced whistling, swamp flycatchers, white and Abdim’s storks, Wahlberg’s eagles, spotted redshanks, water thick-knees, and Verreaux’s eagle owls, among so many more.

Launch Cruise

This boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park is done on the Kazinga Channel, which is one of the best spots to see wildlife species in Africa. Kazinga Channel connects Lake George and Lake Edward; it is where most animals gather to take water, hunt, and sunbathe. During the bird migration period, most of the bird species seen and found are more than those in North America. The Kazinga Channel boat cruise takes travelers to see animals such as elephants, hippos, impalas, buffalo, and so many birds on the shores.

Tree Climbing Lions viewing

Queen Elizabeth National Park protects Uganda’s rare tree-climbing lions within the Ishasha sector. These lions are not a subspecies or any different from the lions that are in the Kasenyi sector or other national parks situated in Uganda. Tree-climbing lions of Queen Elizabeth National Park happened to have adopted some unique characteristics of climbing tree tops and resting from there.

Chimpanzee Trekking in Kayambura Gorge

Chimpanzee trekking in Queen Elizabeth National Park is carried out at Kyambura Gorge. The Kyambura Gorge is a depression/valley along the western section of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Chimpanzee trekking offers tourists a greater chance of viewing other primate species such as baboons, red-tailed monkeys, and black-and-white colobus.

Kyambura Gorge chimpanzee tracking is amazing. An adventure that can be done in Queen Elizabeth National Park is in the Kyambura Gorge sector of the park. For travelers, Kyambura Gorge chimpanzee tracking is the most rewarding and adventurous. You trek with chimps in Queen Elizabeth National Park's tropical rain forest, gaining insight into the park's beautiful scenery and natural wildlife wonders such as baboons, red-tailed monkeys, and black and white colobus monkeys, among others.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is not only home to chimpanzees but is also famous for the cunning tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector of the park.  Queen Elizabeth National Park is home to the wonderful Great Kazinga Channel that separates Lake George and Lake Edward. It is also home to several crater lakes that are salty in nature, with great views of the Mweya peninsula, shrubs, open savannah grassland, and woodland; the tropical rainforest that helps wildlife animals survive; the amazing flora and fauna; and scenic beauties.

Among the Queen Elizabeth Wildlife animals to spot alongside chimpanzee trekking are large herds of elephants, sitatunga giraffes, oribis, and elands, herds of buffaloes, zebras, leopards, antelopes, hippos, and topis, among others.

Besides the Kyambura Gorge sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, chimpanzee tracking experiences can be done in other places, such as Budongo Forest and Kalinzu Forest, although Kibale Forest National Park is the most famous place for chimpanzee tracking adventures in Uganda.

Kyambura chimpanzee tracking is three times more affordable compared to Kibale Forest National Park and offers almost the same experience, thus making Kyambura Gorge chimpanzee tracking the best destination for budget travelers who would love to enjoy the chimpanzee experience on their Uganda safari. However, despite the chimpanzee permit cost in Kyambura Gorge, the fact remains that Kibale Forest National Park is the most famous place for chimpanzee tracking in Uganda.

The dry season, from December to February and again from June to September, is generally regarded the best time to travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park. During these months, Queen Elizabeth National park vegetation is shorter, making it easier to spot wildlife species.