Kaniyo Pabidi Ecotourism Lodge Murchison Falls National Park

... good bread is almost impossible to buy.

These two warthogs seemed to have a well planned strategy. The first one started chewing on the gas bottle hose, yes that did get our attention whilst the second larger on reached into the front of the car. Darren grabbed the monkey stick and the plastic chair and looked like a lion tamer in the circus. Trouble was the wart hog kind of gave him the look like ...

... but thankfully we were all more than satisfied to be sleeping under mosquito nets, even if it meant only 3 hours of electricity per day. Just long enough to charge the camera battery.

We arrived around 10:30-11:00 am, and lounged at the lodge until 3 pm. Brighton offered us bottles of water as we climbed into the vehicle. We were off to see Murchison falls, from the top!

Murchison Falls is a 43 meter water fall, which isn’t what makes it impressive. Rather, it ...

... or I could've taken a motorbike taxi which isn't a smart idea with my backpack, or I could've taken a local minibus for about 50 cents. You should know by now that I always like to take local transportation so you probably guessed already that I took the minibus. Well, people on the street were so willing to stop and help me first get to the main minibus station then to ...

... Really lovely guy from Missouri (not Misissippi =s) who we met on the trip Esther & Sally - 2 lovely Aussie girls who we met on the trip and who shared a tent with Jennie and I Jennie and I had arranged to go on the trip with Matt, Josh and Jamie. On Tuesday evening, following my teaching session, we headed to the Red Chile backpackers hostel to meet the boys, who were returning from the Queen Elisabeth National Park that evening. I was on an ...

... eternal green area of Banana trees and other tropical flora. The red terra and endless green made the unique landscape looks like it was taken from a movie. I wondered how would Africa look like, and this road made me determine that the reality can expresss the atmosphere of Africa better than any imagination. Our first stop was in the town of Masindi, for lunch. 4 hours in the bumpy unmaintained roads of Uganda are not an enjoyable experience (ignore ...

... of the huge river forcing its way through a narrow gap in the rocks and therefore lots of white horses spraying up the rock face. It is not a typical waterfall but a huge mass of water. The game drive was not brilliant due to the long grasses (we were told Jan/Feb is a better time to go) but we did see elephants, giraffe, antelope and wildebeast. The best part of the trip was the boat trip up the Nile to the ...

... the guides were a little stricter in the way they let you approach the chimps and this has a lot to do with the fact that this camp had been set up with a lot of help from the Jane Goodall Institute. Here we kept our distance from the chimps and never really got closer than about 10m/30ft. That said, Sauda was very entertaining and was able to tell us all ...

... and comes after us. They have a lunge of what seems like about 15ft and it only takes them a second or two to cover that distance so if you are within 20ft they will be on top of you before you know it. I think our captain was getting a little too close but he was never going to show us he was scared. Of course all the women and half the men gave a yelp when one of them kept coming after the first lunge. As you approach the ...

... as hell so add that to the foam and it is a little sad to think this is only a few hundred kms from the start of the longest river in the world. Its dirty before it even gets out of Uganda. We hadn't even gotten off the ferry and we had already spotted our first animals - hippos lining the river shore next to the ferry. It turned out George was the boss of the UWA guides and was another keen ...

... as a pride of lions with 2 females and 7 young lions who were about 2 years old and developing. After the safari we headed back to camp to grab some lunch and set off for our drive down the Nile heading towards the falls. During the boat ride we saw lots of hippos, crocs and other animals on the side of the river. We stopped a distance from the falls but the view provided us with a ...