We woke up for at 6am, got ready and had African tea (very milky spiced tea) ready to leave the camp at 6.30am in order to get a ranger for our morning drive. The rangers cannot be reserved so it is a first come, first served basis; however a ranger is not a necessity but can be helpful to tell you some facts about the park and spot some of the more camouflaged animals. We drove from around 6.45-9am and saw many animals who hunt during the night returning to a nice, cool spot for the day.
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| On the drive we saw a lion cub but no mother. The ranger suggested that the cub may have been abandoned. |
Ugandan antelope and water buck are very common to see and easy to spot so throughout our time at this national park we saw many.
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| waterbuck |
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| Ugandan Antelope |
We also saw some Hippo fighting, when we drove past the lake. This was an amazing sight and very impressive!
In the afternoon, we drove down to Ishasha. Ishasha is famous for having lions which rest in trees during the day, however we did not see any lion but saw lots of monkeys instead.
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Baboons were very abundant in this region, especially on our drive down.
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One of the things that surprised me about the baboons was that they were not at all scared of humans. The photo above shows a family of baboons right beside someone's house (on the right hand side of the picture) trying to steal matoke (a type of green banana that tastes like potato) from their house.
For lunch we settled down in a nice camp site just beside a river where on the other side was the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here we saw Hippo, a lizard and a Duiker.
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| A Duiker |
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| Just as we were leaving we saw a monkey which a ranger thinks may be a black-and-white colobus. |
To end the day we went to see the salt lakes and the Kasenyi fishing village and the salt lakes behind our hotel. The salt lakes are one of only salt lakes to produce pink salt, which is naturally sodium free.
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| The salt lakes by sunset |
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