Happy Elephants

Wild life, Hiking & Beach Time

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January 29th 2006
After Gorilla Tracking, Mark, Ioana, Alison & I headed to Queen Elizabeth National Park. QENP was the premier Safari Park in the 70s with large number of wild mammals. But, the retreating troops of Idi Amin and Tito Akello decimated most of the wild life for meat and money. During the last 20 years, the park has been slowly replenished by wild life, but it is still below 70s numbers. We took a ... read more

Africa » Uganda

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Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,0... ... read more