Monday, November 17, 2008

A weekend away!

I realise I'm being very poor at updating you all! And I have discovered that my last post was saved as a draft and not posted! So appologies. I am finding the internet very tempramental.
Let me tell you about what we did last weekend! Myself and four others decided to take Friday off and travel to the near by park - Murchison Falls for the weekend. On route we stopped at a prayer mountain, near Goli. The prayer mountain was a beautiful setting, with cool air, and different small buildings built along the walk representing a variety of things such as, a heart shaped building representing Gods love for the world.
We then traveled on. The park is known for its delta, where the Victoria Nile runs into lake Albert and flows out as the Albert Nile! Birds are the best thing about this park. Though hard to identify as they move so fast!
An exciting bit is crossing the Nile on the ferry - I was supprised how wide the river was and a bit wary of the crocodiles (that I couldn't see but knew they were there somewhere!)and hippos. The falls were magnificent!They had lovely rainbows that varied in size as the water spray rose and fell. We viewed them from the top Saturday morning and then I went on the boat ride (that took 3 1/2hrs)that viewed the falls from the bottom. On the boat ride we were able to see waterbuck, elephants, hippo, crocodiles and a wide variety of birds like king fishers, fish eagals and grey erets.
We went on a game drive Sunday morning and saw elephant close up, pleanty of Ugandan kob, hartebeast, some buffalo and Giraffe! It was a lovely weekend away, somewhat dusty on the game drive (water in the shower was brown!)and good food at Red Chilli camp.

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