Dirks fabulous adventures in Uganda: Ishasa game drive & heading to Bwindi

Today we had another long drive down to Bwindi planned. So we left early after breakfast and did some kind of game drive as we had to drive through the park anyway. We had spotted some eagles, monkeys, elephants and Topis.

We had also seen a heavily damaged wreck of a truck. One of the downsides of Uganda are the very bad roads with lots of potholes and mostly washed out because of the heavy rain. There’s some roads in mint conditions but those are rare. It’d help to boost business in Uganda had they proper roads. Despite the fact that the roads are quite poor, the drivers and their not so well maintained vehicles are another problem, especially truck and bus drivers who mostly don’t seem to care about other road users. It’s pretty darwinistic here, the bigger and heavier the vehicle the more ruthless the driving behaviour. No wonder there’s so many accidents here.

Anyways, we did another short game drive at Ishasha where the famous tree climbing lions are to be found. Unfortunately we couldn’t find any of them but we had seen lions the day before and thus we didn’t really mind. Before we left the park, Nelson spotted something on a tree. It was a leopard which is also a bit rare. We spent quite a while observing that beautiful predator and then left Queen Elisabeth National Park towards the south. As we drove the vegetation became greener and greener. At a very nice lodge we stopped to have lunch. After another one or two hours we reached a huge tee plantation and factory where we bought some fine Ugandan tea to bring home. Later in the afternoon we finally reached the Bwindi Community Camp where we enjoyed a nice supper after having taken a shower with water that smelled like burned wood. Later the staff explained that they would boil the water over a fire and that’s where that smell came from.

It was again time to going to bed and we were very excited for we had an exciting day to come.

Eagle