Sambiya River Lodge Murchison Falls National Park

We drove up to Murchison Falls which is a 6m wide gap that the Nile flows through. Unfortunately the North of Uganda is still not a safe happy place (borders Sudan and the Congo) so this is as far north as we were prepared to go. Interestingly the drive up was so quiet on the road that it was relaxing and unsettling at the same time.<br><br>The falls was as you would expect impressive, see pics' but it ...

... to manage, and his volunteer position became a paid position in the middle of nowhere. He is one of the most aggressive Ugandan drivers I have seen, so I focused on a point on the horizon, rather than the curves in the road.<br><br>About four minutes before getting to the checkpoint gate, Kevin asks "So what are you doing about park entrance fees." First, let me remind you that KP isn't actually within the park, it has never been charged entrance fees before July ...

Welcome to Uganda! Finally an English speaking country! Being a language teacher I'm ashamed to say that but being able to speak to anyone and everyone without difficulty does make traveling easier. Generally Ugandans speak Luganda and/or Swahili to each other but everyone speaks English as well. The bus from Kigali to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, took about 9 hours and the ...

I must be one of the luckiest people I know: last week I visited my second National Park in 1 month! Before I begin, I would like to introduce you to some of the characters you will come across. I hope that they like my descriptions of themselves :o) Jennie - UK / New Zealand teacher who came to Hospice a few weeks ago and has been one of my saving graces! Matt - UK bum who's aim in life is currently to look as much like a hobo as possible when he ...

... has been cancelled. "What's happened?" we asked him. "The guide is tired, he's been done the trail 4 times today." Robert said. Well, "This Is Africa" (TIA), we thought. This thing was completely unclear to me, but it seems that it is a normal thing in Africa. If you're tired today, you can go home and come back tomorrow. And you may not, if you don't want... Africa... Since we were all exhausted from almost 7 hours drive, no-body insisted to make ...

... where we could see hundreds of hippos in the water - as well as a bank of crocodiles and elephants on the river bank. What was strange was all the scum floating on the river, especially near the bottom of the falls - where the boat wedged itself between 2 rocks to allow us to stop and take pictures for a while. The campsite was really nice and clean. We especially liked the resident warthogs - I really want ...

... of stories about the forest, the chimps and the local people. Sauda stopped us at one point to look at two chimps up in the tree about 10m above us. She knew what was about to happen. One of the lesser males and a female that likes him had snuck off for a little nooky. As I said, Sauda knew what was happening so after about 10mins when we were starting to ...

... there is brown foam all over the place and one large beach on the left hand shore. As you get close you realise there are about 30-40 crocs and at least as many hippos all side by side. Apparently they live happily together - I guess because the hippos is so much bigger than the crocs and crocs aren't great pack hunters so they don't take full grown hippos down. With the crocs around it means nothing else will hassle the ...

... grace and whilst we were chatting during the evening a fully grown male was grazing about 10 feet away from us. It was a pretty amazing site to see it so close and to see its real size, I had seen plenty in the water before but never so close. During the night we were visited by some hippos grazing by our tents at around 3 in the morning and my tent mate woke me up with one right next to ...