Ishasha jungle lodge is a mid-range accommodation facility located a few kilometers away from Katokye Gate of Queen Elizabeth National Park along the banks of the Ntungwe River. The best place to start an adventure safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park is at Ishasha Jungle Lodge. The acacia savannah and riparian forest vegetation that surround Ishasha Jungle Lodge. Click here to view mountain gorilla trekking tour.

Ishasha Jungle Lodge consists of 10 elegant and beautifully designed rooms built in African traditional style using a grass thatched roof, modern comforts, and local woods. All the rooms are well decorated and furnished to meet guests' expectations, with neat mosquito nets, flat-screen TVs, air conditioning, satellites, and dryers. All Ishasha Jungle Lodge rooms contain flushing toilets and both hot and cold showers. All the rooms have private terraces, sitting areas, and balconies that give you a panoramic view of the Kazinga Channel, the Savannah Plains, wildlife, and other surrounding areas. Click here to see our recommended mountain gorilla trekking tour. 

Ishasha Jungle Lodge Restaurant serves both local and international delicious meals to meet visitors' choices, such as bush breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, served by well-organized and professional staff. Ishasha Jungle Lodge has a fully stocked bar with both local and international hard and soft drinks.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is the second-largest national park located in southwestern Uganda near Fort Portal, the tourism city, in four districts: Kasese, Rubirizi, Kamwengye, and Rukungiri. Queen Elizabeth National Park extends from Lake George to Lake Edward towards the southern wetlands, including the Kazinga Channel that connects Lake Gorge and Lake Edward.

Queen Elizabeth National Park has a biodiversity of flora and fauna, approximately 100 mammals, and 600 species of birds. Game drives either in the morning or in the evening give an ideal base to explore Queen Elizabeth National Park with the view of spotting wildlife species such as buffaloes, cape buffaloes, leopards, tree-climbing lions at the ishasha sector, antelopes, elephants, impalas, antelopes, zebras, chimpanzee tracking at Kyambura gorge, forest walk at Kalinzu, and salt mining at Katwe.

Ishasha tree-climbing Lions are the largest cats in two African destinations: Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda and Manyara National Park in Tanzania, where you can enjoy these unique and famous experiences where lions climb big tree branches as they relax. 

The Ishasha sector is located in the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park, the second-largest national park situated in southwestern Uganda.

Queen Elizabeth harbors other animals such as elephants, Uganda kobs, buffaloes, warthogs, waterbucks, bushbucks, leopards, giant forest hogs, hippos, Nile crocodiles, hyenas, and chimpanzees in Kyambura Gorge, black and white colobus monkeys, olive baboons, red-tailed monkeys, and many bird species. 

Queen Elizabeth National Park offers primate tourism activities that many travelers can engage in during their tour, including both morning and afternoon game drives; tree-climbing lion tracking; boat cruises on the Kazinga Channel; nature walks; bird watching; and chimpanzee trekking in Kyambura Gorge, the valley of the apes.

Ishasha tree-climbing lions can be seen lazily lying up in acacia or on a fig tree branch during the game drives in your comfortable safari vehicle with a knowledgeable driver guide from Devine African Safaris.

Queen Elizabeth also accommodates other animals like buffaloes, elephants, topi, Uganda kobs, and a variety of bird species such as the martial eagle, bateleur, brown snake eagle, palm nut vulture, Ross’s turaco, grey woodpecker, grey-backed fiscal, white-headed barbet, African wattled plover, broad-billed roller, white-browed robin chat, yellow-billed woodpecker, greater honeyguide, striped kingfisher, and African green pigeon, among others. 

The Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park is the best-visited destination due to the famous tree-climbing lions. The Ishasha sector is visited all year, but the best time to see these tree-climbing lions is during the dry season, which occurs in Uganda during the months of June, July, August, September, December, January, and February.

In the dry season, Queen Elizabeth National Park receives less rainfall, so access roads and tracks in Ishasha are passable.

The Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park is best visited during the dry months of December, January, February, and then from June to September. This season is considered the best time to go to the Ishasha sector for unlimited game drives and wildlife viewing. Although the Ishasha sector can be explored at any time of the year.