What’s happened on this adventure so far – https://lynntowin.ca/uganda-second-part-safaris/ On the road to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest At sunrise, we set off in our safari trucks on a highway alongside the park, up to the edge of a valley, or escarpment. We saw elephants, buffalo, birds, baboons all from the highway. Here, many elephants don’t have tusks. They have evolved that way as those are the ones who survived poachers looking for tusks. From the top we had a view down to crater lakes. We stopped at beautiful green tea fields. Still climbing, there were amazing landscapes, and in the distance, seven dormant volcanoes. The volcanoes all belong to Uganda, Congo…

Previous posts are at https://lynntowin.ca/uganda/ Village walk After the chimpanzee experience in Kibale, we went for a visit set up for us in a nearby village. Our first stop was grounds of a guy known as the Banana Man, who made juice, beer, and gin from bananas. He was quite a character. Next was the coffee lady who ground her beans for us (a “coffee snob” in my group pronounced it excellent). Then we went to the hut of the village medicine man, and last to a place where women were weaving colorful baskets, dyed with natural plants. On the way back to camp, we passed a big black snake…

For the first part of this trip, see https://lynntowin.ca/masai-mara Kampala To start the second part of our adventure, we flew Kenya Airways to Entebbe, on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Entebbe is a laid back lakeside city with mansions overlooking the beautiful vistas. The president of the country has two official residences, in Entebbe and in Kampala, the capital. A driver picked us up there to take us to Kampala. Vendors lined the highway, selling sheets, backpacks, apples, you name it. He told us stories of the current president going with an entourage between the cities each day, causing traffic jams. This may have been continued after the infamous dictator Idi…