Lindsay, Vicki and I went up to Murchison Falls national park last weekend for a little safari getaway. We left from Kampala and drove north for about 6-7 hours. Driving still absolutely insane. Technically, driving is on the left hand side here – however in practice it is usually half off the road in the ditch or on the wrong side to avoid massive potholes everywhere. A little nutty, but made it up in one piece. We went with 5 other English people who were also staying in Jinja (Elsa, Gemma, Sarah, Chris and Philipa) – great bunch. And we all got along really well.
Accommodations were proper safari tents with beds inside (but no mosquito nets!). We saw quite a few animals right from the cap site – a family of warthogs and a baboon routing through the garbage (they could teach the raccoons in Hamilton a few tricks!). Sunday morning left at 7 am for the safari. Scenery was beautiful – very Lion King-esque. Breathtaking – took lots of pics and will post more when I am back in Canada as it takes about 10 minutes to upload a picture. The safari was about 4 hours – and we saw lots of Ugandan cobs (kind of like an antelope), giraffes, elephants, buffalo, baboons, warthogs, lots of birds and some other animals which I can’t seem to think of at the moment. Also saw a female lion with two cubs – which our driver wanted to track so we went off-roading and got stuck in the mud about 25 m from the lions. Driver then got out of the truck – which I thought was a little scary…in the end another safari truck towed us out. Anyways great fun and got loads of good pics. The girls and I broke out in Lion King songs a couple of times hahah…
Went back to camp for lunch, followed by a boat cruise up to the falls and saw lots of hippos (and a couple baby hippos) and a group of at least 20 crocs running into the water. Couple more elephants too! Incredible! Next morning went for a hike up the falls which was breathtaking. Murchison Falls are the narrowest point of the River Nile, at about 6m wide – incredibly powerful and absolutely beautiful!
Accommodations were proper safari tents with beds inside (but no mosquito nets!). We saw quite a few animals right from the cap site – a family of warthogs and a baboon routing through the garbage (they could teach the raccoons in Hamilton a few tricks!). Sunday morning left at 7 am for the safari. Scenery was beautiful – very Lion King-esque. Breathtaking – took lots of pics and will post more when I am back in Canada as it takes about 10 minutes to upload a picture. The safari was about 4 hours – and we saw lots of Ugandan cobs (kind of like an antelope), giraffes, elephants, buffalo, baboons, warthogs, lots of birds and some other animals which I can’t seem to think of at the moment. Also saw a female lion with two cubs – which our driver wanted to track so we went off-roading and got stuck in the mud about 25 m from the lions. Driver then got out of the truck – which I thought was a little scary…in the end another safari truck towed us out. Anyways great fun and got loads of good pics. The girls and I broke out in Lion King songs a couple of times hahah…
Went back to camp for lunch, followed by a boat cruise up to the falls and saw lots of hippos (and a couple baby hippos) and a group of at least 20 crocs running into the water. Couple more elephants too! Incredible! Next morning went for a hike up the falls which was breathtaking. Murchison Falls are the narrowest point of the River Nile, at about 6m wide – incredibly powerful and absolutely beautiful!
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