Blogs from Northern Region, Uganda, Africa - page 2

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

Hello, After a successful week in the Pader and Agago Districts distributing Sawyer water filters (http://www.sawyer.com/sawyersaves/), AFRIpads sanitation pads (http://afripads.com/) and Flip Flops with Hugh and Becky and their North Uganda Outreach Project (http://outreachuganda.blogspot.co.uk/) we were back in Gulu... Friday 14th June 2013 – Pader Town to Gulu continued The drive back from Pader Town to Gulu wasn’t too bad although the road had changed because of the rain... it wasn’t muddy but it was much bumpier; Drew was poorly but he somehow slept through most of the journey. We were driving along merrily until we saw a commotion ahead and thought there must be an accident. It turned out to be two lorries stu... read more

Bonjourno, OK, this is going to be a short one as it's just taken about 98% of my patence uploading the photos so I will let them do the story telling. Essentially we've made it into Uganda since last time narrowly avoiding some aggrovation with a very stern immigration officer. Since then we have been loving the country and, I'm aware I keep saying this, but the Ugandan people are so friendly it is almost unbelievable. We have seen the start of the dusty plains in the north, climbed up to the foothills Mt Elgon on the Kenyan border, explored the three waterfalls at Sipi and chilled in our hut with outrageous views, been to the source of the Nile and done a day white water rafting. We then, bruised and knackered, headed to the capital ... read more

Started the day early at 6:45 with breakfast followed by a long game drive through Murchison Falls NP where we got to see lots of animals and birds. No matter how many safaris I've been on, it's still quite wanderous to see all these various animals in the wild. We saw giraffe, water buck, Uganda's national symbols Ugandan Kob and crested cranes, along with elephants, buffalo, harte beest, baboons, vervet monkeys, hippos, wart hogs, and many many more including numerous birds, such as beeeaters, red bishops, and Abyssinian crested horn bills. After lunch, we took a launch to the Murchison Falls on the Victoria Nile. The boat trip was about 3 hours long, and we got to see Nile crocs, more hippos and many birds including African Fish Eagles. When the boat got to the falls, ... read more

Top of Form Hello friends, Saturday 26th May – GULU and community outreach We had our second community outreach today, at a village called Pajule further out of Gulu. Hugh and Becky’s blog provides a brilliant overview and lots of valuable background information http://outreachuganda.blogspot.co.nz/. It was a couple of hours drive way and today we had another British person, Kate a doctor friend of George’s, coming with us. Drew and I were in the car with David (a colleague of George’s) and we headed out of Gulu on another bumpy track. We passed a School for War Affected Children and many previous IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps, strong reminders we were in an area country that until a few years ago was the LRAs territory. At the time there would have been rebel activity all around, ... read more