February 15, 2012
Today we finished our visit to Queen Elizabeth National Park with an early AM game drive. We were fortunate to see 3 lions! Our first was a female who was lounging in the tall grass, near the road after feasting on a nearby, late night kill. The second two were a female and a cub strolling parallel to the road near the main highway. We were able to observe all three for some time and capture a few pictures. Excellent!
Robert, our driver, was also so kind to allow us to swing by the Kazinga Sure Trust Primary School within Queen Elizabeth National Park. Donna’s red suitcase of school supplies was geared for this school (thanks to Jennifer in Uganda and several folks at Washington State University and the Pullman community). We were able to spend about 30 minutes there with the principal, teachers and students. The students serenaded us with the national anthem and a few other songs. We took several pictures (too slow to load them now), and a few videos of the singing. Everyone seemed very appreciative of our gift, and we enjoyed getting to see this school within the park.
The rest of our day was spent driving south to Kabale, near Bwindi National Park, for our gorilla tracking on Feb 16. The drive took us through beautiful countryside with increasingly steeper terrain, cooler weather, and on to Kabale, the highest elevation town in Uganda.
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