Safari

After quite a long time working our socks off in Kisiizi we managed to get away after the launch of the Uganda:UK Health Alliance meeting in Kampala and we made our first visit to Murchison Falls National Park.  Having lived in Uganda for so many years it was becoming embarrassing not to have visited this famous place while quite a few of our short-term visitors had been.

So off we went with a backpackers tour agency for a couple of nights in safari tents...
after quite a long journey it was all worth it when we were able to walk to the top of the falls and were blessed with beautiful lighting and a rainbow.



The next morning we had a game drive and then in the afternoon a boat trip up the Nile to the foot of the falls.

We loved the giraffes, hadn't seen them in the wild in Uganda before as they are not in Queen Elizabeth park or at Lake Mburo. 

They are magnificent animals and looked very healthy with plenty of space to roam, appearing on the skylines like some sort of alien tripods in a row!














So we enjoyed the wilderness and beauty though the wildlife was a bit too near when a hippo decided to graze right next to our tent so we had to wait half an hour before we could enter!

On returning to Kampala Ian attended the National Intern Committee where it was encouraging to find Kisiizi having a very high profile.

Then on a coach to Mbarara that afternoon and chatting long into the evening with Esther Kobusingye, our former Principal Nursing Officer with whom we stayed.