Back from Safari

Hi All,
As I mentioned before, Easter holiday goes from Friday through Monday here, so we took advantage and went to Murchison Falls National Park over the weekend! We went with many of the med students that stay in the same house we do. We left Friday morning, Driving north where we had lunch in Musindi, then entered the park. We hiked around the top of Murchiso falls which was absolutely beautiful!!! We camped in the park with our group and the next morning we did our "game drive" through the park. We saw lots of types of antelope, my favorite being the oribe ? on spelling. But also waterbuck, kobs, buffalo, giraffees, elephants, no lions or leapords unfortunately. To get to the north side of the park we crossed the Nile river by a Ferry. It was AMAZING to see all the animals. At one point we could look over the Nile into the Democratic republic of the Congo. That afternoon we took a boat up the nile surrounded by hippos and crocodiles to Murchison Falls and saw the falls from the bottom, it is alot of fast moving water!! Oh and we also drank a "Nile" beer while on the Nile river :)

It rained and rained that night, but luckly our tent held up pretty well, some of the people we were traveling with were not so lucky. We couldn't have food in the tents because of the warthogs that are all around the campsite...in the US we worry more about bears ;) The next day we drove to Bugando Forest and went "chimpanzee tracking" which was AMAZING!! We hiked for about 2 hours in the rainforest following the "calls" of the chimpanzees to one another. Finally we got to watch a group of about 8 communicate with each other through the trees up above, then come down to the ground about 50 ft away!!! Last, we headed back to Kamapala and our Safari was over, tear. Back to work tomorrow. I am almost out of internet time will update tomorrow! Miss you all