While I know we just said that our trip to Ishasha was our last safari, it wasn’t. The week before our yearly National Park pass expired we realized our good friends who were departing Post had yet to go on a Ugandan safari. Knowing my love for a good safari, I couldn’t just let them leave Uganda without having been on one. So we put together a trip and took them and their daughter, our friends who we went to Kibale with and their son, and one of the marines and headed off to Lake Mburo.
Of course, no trip is complete down south without stopping at the Equator. So we made a quick pit stop and got our pictures on the way down.
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| Greg & Katie on the Equator. |
Our first afternoon of safaris was great, we saw tons of zebra, went to a beautiful lookout, and we even got to see the few giraffes that had been transferred here from Murchison Falls National Park. While we’ve seen it all before, it was nice to do it all with friends this time around.
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| Zebra! |
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| Greg & Katie in Lake Mburo. |
The next day Greg was unfortunately down for the count a chunk of the day with a really bad headache and dizziness, so he relaxed as the rest of us went out to see some more animals. Back at the hotel for lunch, we were joined by a ton of baboons who really enjoyed eating the cushions for the little swing they had at the place.
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| Giraffe! |
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| Waterbuck standing his ground. |
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| Bushbuck, always fun to actually see out in the open. |
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| A baboon munching on some cushion foam. |
We tried for the boat cruise on the lake, but unfortunately for us, the boat just wouldn’t start and their other boat was under repair (another This Is Africa moment). We went back to our pretty lookout from the day before and then got to watch the sunset over the lake.
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| Sunset over Lake Mburo. |
Our early morning safari didn’t bring us any luck, but I did find an owl which was pretty cool. On our way back to Kampala we decided to stop at an alligator farm that we had heard about. Now if PETA had seen this place they would have been in an uproar. There were tons of alligators in each cage, not a lot of water or shade, and the place was really stinky. The place raises the alligators to sell for their meat and skins, though they really should have worked to make them more comfortable. We got to hold a baby alligator, which was interesting, but as it started to make some scared noises we felt bad and put it back into its pen. Next up, we got to watch them feed a live chicken to this monster sized alligator. At first, we thought that they were going to feed the alligator a dead chicken, but when the people came out with a live one we knew that chicken’s days were numbered. We all felt extremely bad for the chicken, that thing didn’t have a fighting chance, but it was really cool to see the alligator jump up and grab the chicken in less than an instant. While some of us stared in shock, others had wide grins at the awesomeness of what they just saw, and the alligator happily munched on the chicken.
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| Owl on our early morning safari. |
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| For all the alligator pictures, see our SmugMug. |
Overall it was a great trip. It’s always nice to get out of Kampala and it was fun to go with people who haven’t done a safari before.
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