Ishasha Wilderness Camp Queen Elizabeth National Park

... I just now noticed but I seem to click the best with the non-native English speakers on the tour. 1 Dutch, 1 Swiss-German, and 1 Danish. The Dutch and Swiss and I talked for a few hours about this and that. Then soon after our showers, it was dinner time. Dam it was good!! A few of us started to play pool and drink a bit and just enjoy ourselves. One Aussie girl in particular was ...

... baked in the sun and seeing hardly any animals. A lot of the reason was because there was so many trees and bushes so packed tightly together that you couldn’t really see anything. Then all of a sudden a herd of gray elephants appeared to our right and I screamed "elephants" and the truck screeched to a halt. Luckily the truck stopped in a good spot for me to take a good picture of them and we just sat there for a bit watching them. It was really ...

... with crocodiles and elephants too. I wasn’t able to keep a list of the bird sightings here, they were so many! The most amazing thing was when one male buffalo mounted another male, who was willing and cooperative in the effort. See? It is a common occurrence in nature, although our guide hurried on to direct attention to other attractions.

A few of us continued after the cruise to the Katwe Lake ...

... spotted 2 male lions in the distance through his binoculars and we made our way towards them as quietly as we could. The best part about this find was that the males were communicating with each other by roaring and Paul said that this was almost unheard of for humans to hear this in the wild. The find was amazing and the fact that the lions were so close to us within 5m was awesome. We watched them for a little ...

... today was realy hot and en route we got an unfortunate puncture which Paul and Matia managed to successfully change. We stopped at a local town to repair the punctured tyre and again created a lot of attention amongst the locals in particular the children who we gave sweets too and took lots of photos of them. We then continued our game drive through the park and on to our afternoon activity.

In the afternoon we took a launch trip on the Kazinga Channel, which links ...

... out of the lodge and cans are super expensive (a can of Pepsi is 4,500 shilling) so we neck a drink down and head back to the truck. We set off to the camp and quickly pitch our tents before heading out on a game drive where we see warthog, elephant, impala and Uganda kob. We then head to the jetty and we go on a boat cruise down the Channel between Lake George and Lake Edward.

... slowly made our way across the national park. One of the first sightings was probably also the best that day. We came across a large group of elephants walking towards the lake and crossing the road just behind us. A second there it looked like they were coming straight at us. We had of course stopped the truck so we could watch these massive creatures make their way towards the lake ...

... ones that we have at work.... It was exciting to see them and something scared half of them whilst we were there so they took off in a hurry and what a sight! A few long drives have taken place to make our way slowly to the Gorilla's which we are trekking on Friday but the end result will be worth it. Spent 3 days at a place in Uganda called Jinja and went white water rafting on the Nile where there were 12 rapids to get through ...

... into a grazing hippo at night)! PS 2: the daily boat trips organized from the lodge are really interesting! They usually go trice a day and last about 2 hours! PS 3: the tree climbing lion circuit isn't as circular as you'd wish it would be, so check your orientation before venturing into it (ideally, have the campsite location in a GPS)!

... exciting, but still excellent to see. At the end of the morning safari we saw a large collection of other vans and buses, which is where we headed to. Lions! they were all watching a pride of lions just chilling out, looking for a bit of shade. They were quite far off and I only managed to see one of their heads through some binoculars, but still, I'd seen some lions! We had a bit of a long lunch without much to do before, although we did discover that the ...