Ishasha Tree Climbing Lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Ishasha Tree Climbing Lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the top highlights on visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park.
To have the best of Queen Elizabeth National Park, you need to do a round trip to the southern part of the park, which is covered by the woodland kind of savannah, and their fig trees, are famous hideout for the tree climbing lions, which this sector of the park is well known off.
The Ishasha sector of the park has a number of fig trees, which the lions prefer to climb, as they are very easy to climb whose branches favors the relaxing of the lions, and as well act as a camouflage for them.
During hot hours of the day, the pride can even be up to 10 on one tree branch, and can be spotted relaxing on one main fig tree. On a lucky day, you can spot a number of different prides on different tree branches around the park, as you go about your game drive. However, on a bad day, you may miss them as well, as they may be out on a hunt, as its nature.
The Ishasha Tree Climbing Lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park are believed to have another adaptation mechanism of climbing the trees, which has given birth to be called the tree climbing lions of Ishasha.
You may be wondering, do lions climb trees. To confirm this, book a Uganda Safari, including a visit to Queen Elizabeth National Park, with a stretch visit to the Ishasha sector.
The Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, today is very famous because of its tree climbing lions, which is a very rare African encounter that can only be sighted in two places, in the entire Africa and world at large. The tree climbing lions can only be spotted at Ishasha sector in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, and Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania.
However, some lions have been spotted in Murchison Falls National Park, on fig trees, but this is not a daily occasion as the situation at Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Other than the search on a game drive in the Ishasha sector for the tree climbing lions, the sector also boost of the savannah woodland, that harbors a number of other wildlife, such as the topi, buffaloes, elephants, kobs, Red river hog and much more, that are occasionally spotted in the park during game drive, though the major key is to look for the tree climbing lions. Cats like leopards, African Civet cats are as well spotted on some occasion, with hyenas always encountered too.
A number of bird species can as well be spotted and encountered during the game drive in the Ishasha sector for those who love the winged ones, as it boost of an excellent birding site, with birds such as the African thrush a relative of the European Black bird, Yellow-billed Oxpeckers, White- browed Robin-Chat, Common bulbul, Greater Honeyguide and trilling cisticola dominating sounds, White-browed Coucal a medium sized bird normally seating on top of bushes sucking in the sun and the dusky hours yielding. The mythical flying bats headed to fruiting figs and hawking insects, with keener vision spotting the yellow winged bats during day the last seconds of the sun will trigger Black shouldered nightjars, Swamp nightjars, and African Scops owl distinct echoes filter through a very silent pristine environment.
Spotting the lions on the fig trees is amazing, as they lie aimlessly, resting on the fig branches. You can as well, encounter them climbing, as you watch the little one struggle to get up to the tree. You can as well meet the male one, with black mane, which are rare to see on an African safari.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the top tourist attractions in Uganda, and one of the most visited parks, boosting a number of wildlife and over 600 bird species. The Kazinga channel boat cruise has been a major attraction, having the highest concentration of hippos, and big Nile crocodile.
For bird lovers, this is a great spot to spot many bird, in large numbers at the large shores.
A night in the Ishasha sector is highly recommended as this increases your chance to do a number of game drives to spot the tree climbing lions in case you missed out on the previous game drive. Hot hours of the day always rewards, as the lions are fond of climbing up to the tree to rest and avoid tsetse flies which are believed to be the reason they climb up the trees. However, the research is still on going to find more, to why the lions of Ishasha climb trees.
A number of accommodations, of different budgets, are available at Ishasha sector, majority being outside the park gates, but still in the quiet wilderness.
You can as well spend a night here, as a number of lodges do exist outside the boundary with the park, to reward you, with one of the most beautiful silent treats, with great serenity and ambience that your souls seek. The lodges are very beautiful, and the environmental setting is very great, for one who is a nature lover, and needs a silent and quiet area, where only your own sound is heard.
You can connect a visit to Ishasha for the tree climbing lion’s search game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park, on exit of your stay at the park with a transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, for the gorilla trekking. Those who do not wish to spend a night in case they have sort time, always visit Ishasha en route to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, or exit to connect with their Rwanda Safari, to Volcanoes National Park, for either gorilla trekking or golden monkey trekking, as you later connect to Kigali for your flight back home.
You will still have time for a short game drive, and most drives have been lucky to encounter the lions.
You can as well combine a stay at Ishasha sector for game drive, with a visit to Maramagambo forest, for nature walk in this beautiful natural forest, fueled with great historical stories and having a bat cave, that host millions of bats, and number of snakes, birds and primates are encountered during the nature walk in this beautiful forest.
Visit Ishasha Tree Climbing Lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park and meet the rare encounter of the tree climbing lions.
