Oct 1, 2011 - Queen Elizabeth National Park to Lake Bunyonyi

It was an extremely difficult night for all. Two tents had biting ants invade them during the night. Of course that woke the rest of us as they scrambled out of their tents trying to escape. We heard them talk about the problem and quickly got our headlamps out to check our tent. To be safe, we stuck a pair of socks into the space where the 3 zippers of the tent met. Both tents with ants were left evacuated while the occupants decided to sleep on couches in the bar area for the rest of the night. There was no place to hang a mosquito net so...

Sep 30, 2011 - Queen Elizabeth National Park Game Drive

Early wake up call for our game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park. We were excited so had little problem getting our buts out of bed for a 6:30 breakfast. We also packed our own brown bag lunch. It wasn't long before we spotted oribi (small deer-like antelope), along the road. A marshal eagle sat proudly on top of a tree. Soon someone noticed the black long crested eagle so we stopped for more photos. Ugandan kobs, water bucks, herons in a tree, grey headed king fishers, African fish eagles,lions, buffalo, black colobus monkeys, bush...

Sep 14, 2011 - Queen Elizabeth Park Game Drive & Kazinga Channel Boat Ride

Queen Elizabeth National Park Game Drive Photos Kazinga Channel Boat Safari Photos The final game drive of this Africa trip for me. Kevin warned us multiple times not to have very high expectations for this Park. Queen Elizabeth National Park covers 770 square miles but it does not have the varied and numerous wildlife populations that we’d seen in Serengeti or Maasai Mara. This is in part due to past animal poaching and the history of Uganda where animals were either killed or left in search of food. We were not to expect to see...

Sep 13, 2011 - Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth Park: Camping with the Hippos

Drive to Queen Elizabeth Park Photos When the alarm went off I took a few minutes to assess where I was and how I got there. To this day I have no clue how I remembered to set the alarm for the correct time. The original plan for Entebbe was to take advantage of the showers but as you can imagine, this wasn’t going to happen in my hangover stupor and on my stumble to the washroom to clean up I realized when I stubbed my toe on the cement stair that I didn’t notice that I left my tent yet again without putting in my contact lenses (again…the...

Jan 19, 2009 - A park fit for a queen

After all the monkeys and gorillas, we headed to Queen Elizabeth National Park (QE). It was not as exciting as I hoped, but we saw lots of hippos and warthogs. We only saw one small group of elephants on the way in and a small heard way way in the distance on the way out. It downpoured on us so apparently the animals don't need to come down to the lake b/c of the watering holes through the park. We went for a game drive in Claudia and a few of us sat up on the roof. The views are stunning. It is so vast and changes so quickly. One minute it...

Mar 28, 2008 - Queen Elizabeth National Park

Had a leisurely bath and breakfast today. Was nice not being up and rushing for a change. Chrissie had a panic as she left her mobile at the last lodge but Joseph, being the star he is, sorted it out for it to be taken to Kampala. He also knew of a very cheap internet café so I got all my photos downloaded which was great. We then hit the road to make our way to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. We arrived at about 3pm and drove slowly to our lodge. We saw waterbuck, elephants, baboons, monitor lizards, warthogs and of course various...

Nov 25, 2007 - Queen Elizabeth, King Edward and King George

After leaving Kampala, in time to see the sunrise over the city, we began our day's drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park and the brim of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The day was, of course, uneventful and I continued to stare out the window thinking about the lives of Ugandan and of the complicated relationships of my own. We arrived at our guesthouse in the late afternoon and toured an herbal medicine conservation site before dark. We all loaded up on herbal itch-creams to help alleviate the damage done by Ugandan mosquitoes and...