23
May 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, I am writing
sitting on a little boat in the middle of the NILE RIVER! Yep, the Nile. Today we did the safari and now we are in
little boats that took us to Murchison Falls.
I am speechless. The peace of
this river, the PERFECT weather, no one drop of cold and a beautiful refreshing
breeze. This is just incredible.
The river is pretty wide, although
for some reason I thought it was wider, I thought you would not be able to see
the other side, but you clearly can.
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| Among hippos, birds and fishermen |
We saw SO many animals today, I
tried to remember all of them, but I don’t think I got all of them… here is my
best try:
Water buffalos – so many of them!! They
were everywhere, and birds apparently love to just sit on them and chill and
ride along!
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| Amiguitos! |
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| Go to the Facebook page and watch the sequence of these buddies... pretty amazing how they coexist. |
Lions – Yep, TWO! And one… eating a water buffalo!!
Pumbas!!! – They even sneaked into
the hotel lawn!
Giraffes – Fr. Kizito’s favorite
animal… by far. Every time we saw one he
would scream as if it was the first time, “Look! A giraffe! That’s my favorite
animal!”
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| Las elegantes |
Elephants – So, so wonderful! And
Also friends with the birds!
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| Chau! |
Oribi- The models of the jungle… they
posed for the pictures… I am not kidding, look!
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| The jungle´s Next Top Models! Posaban!! |
The bird from the Ugandan flag – One
of the most beautiful birds I have EVER seen!
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| Such beautiful birds! Eran hermosos! |
African Bald Eagles- which the tour guide enjoyed calling Bold eagle..
Monkeys- there were not that many but
we just saw some on our way to the falls, hanging on some trees and some other
ones on the street!!
Hippopotamuses – SO much bigger than
I had imagined! If I had to chose to be
one animal, a hippo would be the last.
They don’t do anything! They just
sit there, with a smile on their faces because of the natural way their mouth
curves up and just stay there. In a
school of hippos, (or a group, I forget the name of it for hippos) there is
always one loner. The loner is the brave
one, the one that fights with others and wins.
He is all scratched up and looks like he is suffering all alone,
isolated from the group and bloody looking…. But apparently that´s “cool” in
hippopotamus world.
But
as the guide told us, apparently hippos are not the only ones that include
loners. The giraffes, once they are old,
also leave and just wander off by themselves.
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| Agarrate Catalina! |
Crocodiles: The scariest ones! Why?
Well apart from the fact that they have huge teeth that could rip one of
us apart in seconds and that they do not mind showing for 10 minutes straight
and intimidating scales, they are so quick!
I could barely get a picture of them because they would either be hiding
or, when they went to get in the water they would do it too fast!
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| I see you! Te veo! |
Whispering Acacia – a plant that
ants live on and giraffes like to eat.
Quails – so beautiful but unfortunately
too quick for my camera.
Waterbucks- very pretty little animals... they liked to hang out with the Ugandan birds.
….and more that I don´t remember…
One of
the best parts however, was the lion. At
the beginning it was far away from us, eating the waterbuck that it had
killed. But then, after about 20
minutes, it walked towards the road… and crossed it!!!! It was behind us and I could not take a
picture.. but it was crazy!!!! The lion
was crossing the street behind us!!!
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| El paisaje... como para no querer ser un animal y vivir acá... |
I have
no words to describe how beautiful this place is… the plants, the trees, the
animals… it´s like living in a zoo! And
I mean that literally. We were having
lunch today and all of a sudden… pumbas on the lawn! Yep, they were just walking along… AND we
heard from the hotel people that the day before we arrived they found an
elephant in the pool! That one… is less believable,
but I believe it anyways, it makes everything more fun. J
There are A LOT of really awesome pictures of the Safari,
the boat trip on the Nile and the hotel on Facebook! Check them out!
-Magda
