Lake Mburo to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

Kajie Safaris – Uganda 

Lake Mburo to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

Day 2: 29th November 2018 

Today's drive

Like I was saying the views from Eagles Nest are spectacular, but I discovered that I hadn’t turned the GPS on in my camera. (my bad)

view to the left

view straight ahead

view to the right

view to the right (zoomed in)

view even further to the right

Our man Ronald from Kajie Safaris

We got up at 6am this morning so we could do the early morning game drive, however we only just started the game drive when we got the call for the boat ride on Lake Mburo so we turned around and headed for the Lake.

We meet Dale and Dan on our boat cruise on Lake Mburo, the first thing they said to me was that they were Trump hating Americans. It’s a bit sad when that’s what someone has to say when you meet them. Dale was New Mexico & Dan was from Nebraska, he thought we had never heard of Nebraska, but I told him that’s where Penny was from and we all had a laugh.

Both Dan & Dale were avid bird watchers and had organised a Bird watching Safari. Dan was a Bird Biologist, whilst Dale discovered bird watching in grad school around a lunch table. They were really excited to see the African Fin foot and it was fantastic to share the boat with them because we got to learn all about the different birds. I have to say my favourite birds were the African Fish Eagle and the Kingfishers.

Fish Eagle

Fish Eagle in the middle of the Lake

Fish Eagle in the middle of the Lake (zoomed in)

a pair of Fish Eagles

some random bird

Pied Kingfisher

Kingfisher (blurry)

Pied Kingfisher

yellow beaked red foot bird

Kingfisher

the magnificent shiny bird

the African Finfoot

We got to see a flat dog (Nile crocodile) and lots of hippos up close.

After the boat ride we went back to the game drive, we saw the usual suspects Zebras, Impala, Buffalo. But then we got to see some new animals.

the Bush Buck (hiding)

Zoomed in

Eland (rare sighting!)

Eland with a bird

What can you see?

if you guess Giraffe you were right

Once we finished the game drive we headed out of Lake Mburo NP and towards the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, gorillas here we come!!!

Most of the days driving was on very good tarmac roads, which would put some WA roads to shame.

We passed what appeared to be a school performance, with the kids all dressed in bright colours. The kids were excited to see us so they started waving as we drove by, I wanted to get a pot of them but we thought it would disturb the school performance even more.

There was some stunning scenery as we wound through the beautiful Kigezi Hills, described to us by Ronald as “the Switzerland of Africa”.

I learnt something new today as well, Ronald told me that the population of Uganda in 2007 /2008 (when CHOGM & I were last here) was around 33 Million, now the population is at approximately 42 Million. You can draw your on conclusions as to the reason for the 27.3% increase in population.

Eventually we turned off the main road, onto a good dirt road, then onto an exciting 4WD adventure which led us to the amazing Rushaga Gorilla Lodge.

The Rushaga Gorilla Lodge is another amazing place, the room is enormous and you have to see the shower / bathroom to believe it. Having said that I though the bed was like sleeping on elevated concrete with material over the top, Lisa on the other hand thought it was great.