Murchison Falls

Trip Start Sep 29, 2007

Trip End Nov 11, 2007

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Flag of Uganda Murchison Falls, Uganda
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

We just got back from our trip to Murchison Falls - it is a great National Park north of Kampala. We saw Elephants, Buffalo, Giraffe, Harte-beasts, Ugandan Cob, Oribi, Warthogs, Ground Horn bill, Crocodiles, Hippo's... the list goes on. The trip up took most of Monday - there were 6 of us - our group of 4, another Canadian from Victoria / Vancouver and an Israeli from Jerusalem. Really good group of people so it was a lot of fun.

Accommodation was at a camp about 1 or 2 km from the Nile. This led to some interesting nocturnal visitors - a hippo munched the grass outside our tent both nights. Chris and I were the only ones to wake up - the rest of the group was skeptical so Chris tried to take pictures. At the moment the pictures are very black but Chris is determined that the hippo will appear when he photoshops them at home. The hippo's eating was so loud it woke me up this morning which is impressive in itself

Crocodile

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Tuesday we went for a game drive in the morning then a boat trip up the White Nile to view the actual Murchison Falls. It has been a while since I last did this type of thing, so it was really fun to do it again. A British guy joined us for the drive / boat trip - he was bird watching his way around Africa for about 6 months. He was serious about birds so he pointed out a lot of things that we probably wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

This morning we hiked up around the top of the falls - pretty amazing amount of water is pouring through a gap about 6 m's wide. In typical Uganda fashion they state 'probably the strongest surge in the world'. This is also how they describe rafting the Nile 'Probably the best rafting in the world'. They like the word probably when describing things - not sure if they just are sure it is the strongest surge in the world or if they are being humble.

In any case we are heading off the Tanzania tomorrow on the bus. We will let you know how the 17 hour trip goes (and I think 17 hours may be optimistic). I thinking it won't be fun, but who knows...

Take care.