Game Drives

With the vast savannah grasslands Africa’s got the best game drives show casing Africa’s big 5 game; lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants and rhinos and for countries like Uganda will present to you more than just the big 5 to big 7 or even 8 including gorillas, chimpanzees and the buffaloes. These in addition to the Uganda kobs, giraffes, zebras, water bucks, hyenas, wild dogs, hippos, crocodiles, reptiles, hares, baboons, monkeys, wild beests hundreds of bird species across all other parks in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.

These wild game drives also give an opportunity to bird sightings through the various parks. Some game parks with rivers will further offer boat cruises for example Queen Elizabeth national park on the Kazinga channel where you sail to see thousands of hippos, the site having the world’s highest concentration of hippos, Murchison falls national park where you sail having sighting of large number of Nile crocodiles to view the strongest falls in the world, Lake Victoria in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to view different bird species and lake Kivu in Rwanda.

Game drives take 2-5 hours extensively while interestingly in the first hour on an African game drive can show case most of your bucket list species making it glamourous from the beginning to the end. Game drives are not limited to time on a good day, you would take the whole day in the wild watching action between preys and predators; a battle of death or survival, just be ready. The best time for a game drive is very early in the morning when most of the animals have just woken up and others going back to their hiding places and in the evening hours when the animals are going out to sleep and others moving out to hunt after having rest during the day.