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Uganda – Day 9

I’m not sure how you compete with the excellent day we had yesterday, but waking up to breakfast overlooking Lake Mutanda is a pretty good way to start. As beautiful as it is around here however it was once again time to move on. This time we are moving to the larger and more frequently […]

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Uganda – Day 8

This is it …. the big day. The whole reason we’re on this trip this year …. to see the gorillas. Mountain gorillas are one of the world’s most endangered species having been hunted to near extinction over the years as well as losing their natural habitat due to mankind. With numbers now in their […]

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Uganda – Day 7

What a surprise …. up at the crack of dawn for an early breakfast and once again checking out. We really enjoyed Enjojo, could have easily stayed there another night, but time to move on ….. closer and closer to our goal for the whole trip ….. the gorillas! We started the day with another […]

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Uganda – Day 6

Once again we were up nice and early, fed, watered and throwing our bags in the jeep before 7am. The aim today was to drive south to the Ishasha part of the National Park. This area is famous for it’s tree-climbing lions. We’d actually been very lucky having seen lions in the cactus tree 2 […]

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Uganda – Day 5

Once again we were up bright and breezy for a looong game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Sometimes the game drive Gods are just not with you and today was one of those days, so by midday we cut our losses and headed towards a nice picnic area on the edge of Lake Edward […]

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Uganda – Day 4

Before leaving Isunga Lodge today I got out my drone and tried to take some footage around this place. It truly has an awesome location and I wanted to try and catch that if possible in a few sweeping shots around the gardens and terrace. I’ve only had this thing for about a year now, […]

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Uganda – Day 3

It’s an early start indeed with a 5am alarm waking us to the first birdsong of the day. Today we’re trekking chimpanzees! We’ve been warned that it’s not for the faint hearted and although the activity is booked for the whole day with the local guides its pretty much unheard of that anyone lasts longer […]

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Uganda – Day 1 & 2

I woke up feeling a million dollars compared to yesterday and after a quick breakfast we set off on quite a long drive south to our first stop, being the Kibale Forest. Having been a bit out of it when we arrived last night I didn’t really spend a lot of time chatting with our […]

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