It’s Monday after a very hot weekend. Claudia decided to going on little sight-seeing trip to the north. There’s a pretty big lodge named Chobe Lodge with a nice view to the Nile. In order to go there you just have to follow another typical road to the north. On the way a Police woman stopped us and asked for a ride to where the company is located that will build the big dam. As we had to go there as well we gave her a lift. That’s how things go here. :-) Right there we had to enter the Murchison Falls National Park. We let the police woman out and continued our journey. Soon we had to cross a barrier where we had to pay the entrance fee… Not this time, when Claudia explained that we would only drive to the lodge for a coffee the ranger would just let us through. Yes! Claudia told me that there’s Giraffes and Elephants in the park so I was hoping to get a glance at one of these animals. I only got to see a few Cobbs and a family of Warthogs. A few minutes later we entered the gates to the lodge. These gates somehow reminded me of the gates they had in Jurassic Park. :-) The lodge was really huge, built for – let’s say – 200 persons… But we were the only ones there. The architecture was not really great in my opinion and even though this was supposed to be a 5* lodge it didn’t look like that. The inside was nice though and when we got out on the balcony the view to the Nile really amazed me.
We would then walk around a bit, watching some animals and checking the location. There were also some cottages to rent which looked nice. Unfortunately the environment was not too much taken care of but you would see that very often here. We then had a coffee and had a small lunch before we left.
the cottages…
the Nile…
Some hippos…
a duck family
some baboons
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