The Botanical Gardens

The best part about this job is that Greg gets a ton of days off because we get all of the Ugandan holidays.  Muslim holy days are included in the Ugandan holidays, so since I’ve been wanting to go to the Botanical Gardens for a while now (I heard there’s some good birding), we took advantage of our day off and headed down to Entebbe.  We had a beautiful day and a tour guide who was more than happy to point out all of the different plants and birds we came across.  We lucked out and actually had 3 tour guides as 2 local pups joined and followed us everywhere.

This guy kept us company all day.

One of the first parts of the tour was an area filled with these ginormous spiders.  Spiders aren’t my favorite thing, and these things were huge and everywhere.  It was more than a little creepy.

They were everywhere along the path.

It's eating Greg's face!

As we walked around more, the guide pointed out the area where some of the original Tarzan movies were filmed.  Unfortunately, it’s not much of a jungle in that area nowadays, but still cool to see.

Black-headed Heron.

The jungle where Tarzan was filmed.

While we saw a decent amount of birds, after all our other trips around the country I didn’t feel like we saw anything new or out of the ordinary at the gardens.  Either way, I did get to see the birds and got a few good shots.  For more photos, check out our SmugMug.

Great Blue Turaco.

Black-and-white casqued Hornbill.

Black Kite.

Red-chested Sunbird.

On our way out, our guide gave us two mangosteen’s, an Indonesian fruit that is sweet and tangy.  They were pretty cool looking and they actually tasted really good.  All in all, it was a nice day and it’s always nice to get out of Kampala for a bit.

Some mangosteens.