Blogs from Murchison Falls NP, Northern Region, Uganda, Africa

Despite being born and raised here, Hope and Irene had never been on safari. So I decided we needed a girls trip into the wild! We took a 3 day trip to my favorite park in Uganda: Murchison Falls. I switched it up this time and booked us on a small group tour. So there were two ladies who joined us from the UK. One is a doctor and the other a nurse, both volunteering for a month working in palliative care. The first day we went to see the Murchison Falls, or as the locals call them Kabalega Falls. They at the apex of Lake Albert and Victoria Nile and is the most powerful waterfall in the world. We hiked to view them from several vantage points including one where you get pretty wet from ... read more

Early morning start for another safari. The earlier you start, the greater the chances are of seeing lions coming back from their nightly hunts, and the rest of the animals grazing for food before heading for shelter to avoid the midday sun. The camp was buzzing with activity, and for most people, this was their very first safari. It's always fun to watch people get so excited for their first time doing something incredible: a safari, Machu Picchu, first time to Europe, the list goes on. To get to the park, you have to cross the river via ferry. Everyone was trying to reach the ferry first, so that you could board it first, therefore allowing you access to the park before all the other cars crossed over. It also takes a bit of time for ... read more

Das Reisen in Uganda ist sehr angenehm. Zwar bestehen die Straßen zum größten Teil aus holperigen Lehmpisten, aber die Leute sind wirklich total nett: immer freundlich und hilfsbereit, nie aufdringlich, nicht unterwürfig, sondern ganz natürlich - das erlebt man in dem Maße woanders selten. Seit dem letzten Blog haben wir 2 Nationalparks besucht: Kidepo und Murchison Falls. Beide Parks haben viele Tiere und tolle Landschaft. Wir haben so ziemlich alles gesehen, was das Herz begehrt, z.B. Löwen, Elefanten, Giraffen, Büffel, Zebras, Hippos, Antilopen jeglicher Couleur, Warzenschweine, Strauße, Hyänen, Affen und so weiter und so fort. Und außerdem auch ein paar Viecher, die man nicht zwingend gesehen haben muss: Moskitos, Tsetse-Fliegen, beißende Ameisen, einen schönen großen Skorpion... Ansonsten sind die Parks recht unterschiedlich. Kidepo liegt in einem Tal, ist ziemlich abgelegen, ... read more

Today starts like all of the other days with an early morning so we could do a game drive. Here we saw many more elephants, and witnessed, in my opinion, the cutest animal interaction of the safari. A pack of elephants were crossing the road behind us, along with a few babies (so adorable!) and one of the babies was so little it struggled to climb overtop of a mound of dirt on the side of the road. Mom came up from behind and gently pushed it, with her trunk, helping it get to the other side! Like something straight out of Dumbo! Out of all the baby animals we watched, elephants are by far my favourite! They're so cute and clumsy, swinging their big trunks from side to side and around in circles. Aside from ... read more

2012 July 15 We started with breakfast at 7:00 immediately followed by a nature walk where we had a chance to see habituated chimps at the Budongo nature park. We walked for an hour and startled a group of black colobus monkeys in the tree tops, who took off flying up in the canopy. But, no chimps. We only had the nature walk option, as the official "chimp walk" is reserved for a maximum of 24 people per day, and our group could not be fitted in ... well ... we knew that when we left on safari ... but we were still hoping we might get lucky ... I guess the chimp walk will have to be another time. The walk lasted about 2 hours, where our guide identified several bird calls ... not being ... read more