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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]