I went with a Medair colleague, Mo. It's about an 8 hour drive to the rest camp so that was Friday. We took a ferry across the Nile at 7am on Saturday morning for a 4 hour game drive and then in the afternoon we took a boat 2 hours up stream to near the falls. Sunday morning we drove to the falls and walked around impressive falls where the Nile drops in to a 8m wide gorge. And then back to Kampala. An enjoyable trip !
Warthogs were in the rest camp - wonderfully ugly creatures, definitely not cute even when small!
Some large crocs on the banks - they open their mouths to keep themselves cool
A water buck, so close to the water a potential victim of a crocodile
An oribi, small antelope. An adult oribi is perhaps 1m tall.
Close up, hippos are huge, up to 3000kg with teeth up to 20cm long. There were hundreds on the stretch of river, often in big family groups. They stay in the water to protect their skin from the sun and then graze on the banks when the sun goes down.
An elephant in the background, hippos in the foregound, a very African image.
This lioness was protecting her kill. She was in a thicket next to the road and quite happy to allow vehicles to come within 10m of her. The first time I have seen a lion in the wild.
Mo on the left, with Mary, an American-Taiwanese medical student doing some research in Kampala who was on the same trip.
Murchison Falls, an 8 metre wide gorge with up to 300 tonnes of water per second flowing into it.
In 1962, when the river was in spate, the water forced its way through some rocky obstacles to create a second falls, the Uruhu falls on the left of the picture. Uruhu means independence, 1962 was the year that Uganda ceased to be a British protectorate and became an indendent nation.
Sun rise from the rest camp over Murchison Falls with the Nile cutting across the centre of the picture.
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