Real African Safari

We started the trip by going to Jinja for a night so Mom and Dad could see 'The Source'! We had a good time! We drove about 5 hours to get from Jinja to Murchison Falls National Park. The adventure started on Wednesday morning at 6 am. We headed out on our first 'Game Drive' that afternoon at 4, we did another game drive the next morning, and an afternoon boat ride along the Nile to see the water animals up close and the bottom of the powerful Murchison Waterfall!!

We then went to the top of Murchison Falls on Friday morning to end our trip which was one of the most magnificent views I've ever seen and probably will ever see. We saw lots of different kinds of birds, hippos, crocodiles, elephants, giraffe, lion cubs, Uganda National Bird- Crane, wart hogs, water buffalo, hartebeest, monkeys and baboons. (I am not sure if I missed anything)

We had such an amazing time! This is definitely something I had always wanted to do but never thought it would work! Check it off my bucket list for sure! It was an amazing feeling and view to be driving through these animals natural habitats and not be at a zoo! I felt like I was in "The Lion King".

Source of the Nile!

View from the hotel room that evening.

Morning sunrise on our way to Safari!

Safari time!

The 3 of us on our first ferry ride across the Nile to get to the park for our game drive!

This tree is called "The Sausage Tree"- Elephants love to eat these. It is actually alcohol for them!

Baboons around the ferry area! They even jumped in some of the vans that hadn't closed their rooftops yet!

Real life Lion King land.

Hartebeest- these guys were EVERYWHERE!

"Hey, I think I see something!"

Beautiful colors and view!

3 of the 4 1 year old lion cubs we saw! 

Pretty kitty!

This other van and ours were driving through the grass to see the lions and we even watched them chase after a warthog! It was like 'Real Life National Geographic'!! Unfortunately.....they did not catch the little guy.

Me and Sarah sitting on top of the van! We were excited about the lions!!!

Uganda's National Bird! Crane

On the other side of the water is the Democratic Republic of Congo!

Happy Campers in our Safari Van!

Two by two!

Warthogs- they are not very cute. Except the babies.

Papa and Momma Giraffe- Fun Fact: the older a giraffe gets the darker their spots!

Lions day#2!! Yep we saw them 2 days in a row!

Beautiful view!

Hungry Hippos! haha. Another Fun Fact: Hippos main predator are humans- which makes sense why humans main predator are hippos!

Real old giraffe! He's almost black- I could watch giraffe's all day long. Super interesting animals!

ELEPHANTS! They are my favorite! 

Just hanging around!

This line of about 15 giraffes were right next to the road on our way back from our game drive! 

Dad's enjoying the boat ride!

Crazy monkeys! 

Multi-colored bird! I saw one that was almost a turquoise color but it kept flying away every time I tried to take a photo:(

Bottom of Murchison Falls! 

I don't think this guys very happy. I didn't want to be that close to him either. I wasn't driving the boat.

These Elephants had just been bathing in the Nile, they went away as our boat was coming. 

Ugandan storm- rainy season is here!

Beautiful view from our breakfast table at Red Chili Camp!

In the distance you can see the Nile and the land across is where all the animals are!

The three of us at the top of Murchison Falls! We were told it is the most powerful waterfall in the world!

Beauty.

Beauty.

It was SUPER sunny.

Beauty.

Majestic! :) I could have sat by the falls ALL day as well. Amazing view and sound.

This is a tea farm on our way home to Tororo!