Africa Day 3

You know what, its been more than a year since my trip to Africa and I'm still on day 3. I could give up the blog here but that would be quitting! And I don't quit! Well not often - not unless im really getting flogged, in which case i just throw a tantrum and demand rematch... but thats not really quitting!

Anyway - Day 3...

You've probably forgotten the context of this now, but I'm still in Uganda, in the QE2 national park. We went on another game drive - and on this day we saw

- a whole famly of elephants crossing the road (i still remember this, it was my first closs sighting of a large group of elephants!)
- a hippo out of the water and about 5 m from the mutatu. This was the first and last time that I would see a hippo this close out of the water!


- Antelope, Warthogs (pumbas)
- A lion from a distance

We also went to an african village which is probably the first time i came close to a proper third world village. The kids were dirty, they didnt have running water, and i'm not even sure if they had electricity.


I don't think they had seen a lot of asians nor had they seen a lot of asians with hairy legs because they seem to be fascinated with the hair on my legs.. and they kept stroking it... weird i know...



We also went on a cruise of the the lake and on the cruise we saw
- Elephant in the water
- Maribu Storks - The ugliest birds in the world. Carrion eaters of course.
- Hippos in the water
- Crocodiles

A really cute kid!
who insisted we take multiple photos of him...

That afternoon - we went on a chimpanzee walk, where we went in search of chimps! Unfortunately we only managed to see glimpses of them as they were up in the trees. We had a cool guide though, who held my hand as i walked over a fallen over tree to cross a river. There is a 90% chance that I would have fallen in without her help..


Dinner was roast Goat! It was AMAZING. One of the best meals of the trip. To get a roast in the middle of africa was pretty special actually, I didn't expect to have that kind of food, i thought we were going to be eating really simple food throughout the trip but every once in a while we'd do something amazing like a roast side of goat and roast vegetables...

I believe this was the night wher Katie, Bahn and I had our first late night chat... :)

Good times...