So we are still in Uganda now in Jinja just chilling and waiting till our passports arrive back from Australia where they have been sent to get Ethiopian visas we should be here about 4ish days its a beautiful spot overlooking the Nile so not a bad place to wait it out....
when we left Kampala we headed up to Kibale Forrest national park where we walked and walked and walked the first day there we got up earlyish and took a walk along the edge of the national park looking out for some animals monkeys mostly we were well rewarded we saw 3 species the red tailed monkey the red colobus monkey and the blue cheeked mangabe we walked for about 2.5 hours and had just got back when it was announced that there were free chimp permits for the afternoon trekking so we wolfed down a super speedy lunch and headed into the national Forrest where we spent about 4 hours trekking these amazing primates we saw 2 family groups all females and young one group was a female and 3 of her offspring ranging in age from 11 to a tiny 4 month old baby! we sat and watched them for about an hour before heading deeper into the Forrest where we saw another 3 chimps we watched these for about 25 mins as we had to head back to camp they were so lovely but as it was the heat of the day not very active mostly just slowly eating and grooming! then we got back to camp where we sat for about an hour when it got dark we headed out on a night walk we saw a tiny bush baby and a load of frogs spiders and other creepy crawlys! when we got back to camp we were invaded by safari ants so all the tents had to be surrounded by paraffin and we couldn't shower as they were blocking the path there! the next morning we got boda bodas (motorbike taxis) into town to the Bogodi wetland sanctuary to go bird/monkey watching there are 8 species of primate in the wetlands and we saw 6 of them red tailed monkey, red colobus monkey, black and white colobus, lo'hoest monkey,olive baboons and ververt monkeys we also saw a Jameson's mamba it was huge and right above Sam's head! that afternoon we were all walked out so just chillaxed until evening when a local music group came and performed for us it was a really diverse group from wee kids to well the opposite haha! it was really fun and we got up and had a bit of a dance with them...
next day we left Kibale Forrest and headed to Murchison falls the biggest rapid on the Nile and the most powerful waterfall in Africa we had three days there mostly sitting around as it was intensely hot we did take a boat trip up the river to the falls and a game drive through the national park which was really cool and we got 2 more monkeys a sub species of the vervet monkey called the tantalus monkey which was in the campsite and a patas monkey in the national park along the river we also saw a ton of wildlife...and a boat full of....Japanese tourists!
we left Murchison and spent night in Masinda camping in the garden of the Masinda hotel that's right the Masinda hotel the one where the queen stayed along with the cast of river queen heck yes!
and now we are in Jinja just passing the time.....
when we left Kampala we headed up to Kibale Forrest national park where we walked and walked and walked the first day there we got up earlyish and took a walk along the edge of the national park looking out for some animals monkeys mostly we were well rewarded we saw 3 species the red tailed monkey the red colobus monkey and the blue cheeked mangabe we walked for about 2.5 hours and had just got back when it was announced that there were free chimp permits for the afternoon trekking so we wolfed down a super speedy lunch and headed into the national Forrest where we spent about 4 hours trekking these amazing primates we saw 2 family groups all females and young one group was a female and 3 of her offspring ranging in age from 11 to a tiny 4 month old baby! we sat and watched them for about an hour before heading deeper into the Forrest where we saw another 3 chimps we watched these for about 25 mins as we had to head back to camp they were so lovely but as it was the heat of the day not very active mostly just slowly eating and grooming! then we got back to camp where we sat for about an hour when it got dark we headed out on a night walk we saw a tiny bush baby and a load of frogs spiders and other creepy crawlys! when we got back to camp we were invaded by safari ants so all the tents had to be surrounded by paraffin and we couldn't shower as they were blocking the path there! the next morning we got boda bodas (motorbike taxis) into town to the Bogodi wetland sanctuary to go bird/monkey watching there are 8 species of primate in the wetlands and we saw 6 of them red tailed monkey, red colobus monkey, black and white colobus, lo'hoest monkey,olive baboons and ververt monkeys we also saw a Jameson's mamba it was huge and right above Sam's head! that afternoon we were all walked out so just chillaxed until evening when a local music group came and performed for us it was a really diverse group from wee kids to well the opposite haha! it was really fun and we got up and had a bit of a dance with them...
next day we left Kibale Forrest and headed to Murchison falls the biggest rapid on the Nile and the most powerful waterfall in Africa we had three days there mostly sitting around as it was intensely hot we did take a boat trip up the river to the falls and a game drive through the national park which was really cool and we got 2 more monkeys a sub species of the vervet monkey called the tantalus monkey which was in the campsite and a patas monkey in the national park along the river we also saw a ton of wildlife...and a boat full of....Japanese tourists!
we left Murchison and spent night in Masinda camping in the garden of the Masinda hotel that's right the Masinda hotel the one where the queen stayed along with the cast of river queen heck yes!
and now we are in Jinja just passing the time.....
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