Kasese Queen Elisabeth National Parc lies in the south of Uganda. It is surrounded by plantages with banana's, coffee, papaya, mango, vanille, cacao, avocado, sorghum, cassave and papyrus. Inside the parc Kazinga channel connects Lake George with Lake Edward. It is full of life. We see buffalo's, wathogs (pumba in the Walt Disney movie "King of the Lions"), hippo's, nile crocodiles, Uganda kob (a kind of antilope) and a lot of birds like kingfishers, hamerkop, saddlebilled stork, spurwinged plover, blackheaded heron and the great white pelican. It is a big spectacle, specially when the kingfishers steal the fishes the cormorants just catched, while African fish eagles and lap faced vultures overview the show. Later we see our first elephants. It is around the beautiful crater lakes at a height of about 3000 meter and exactly on
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