Oh my …… it was so wonderful to be able to sleep in a bit. Kluges Guest Farm, a long way on an ugly road from main paved road. , was a beautiful very nice place to stay. The roomy tents had real beds with bedding and not too far to bathrrooms and showers.

We leave here at 9:35.

Cavalcade of trucks preceded by 2-3 armed vehicles that looked like military….numerous trucks with money, followed by 2 more armed vehicles.

Uganda is a beautiful country with green mountainsides. Actually it was pointed out that 2 mountain peaks had snow on them this morning . The soil is rich….. seems to grow lots of green beans

*165# painted on some shops. Is it advertisement for mobile banking on your phone much like we have at least on IPhones, “Wallet”.

Motorcycles are loaded with everything imaginable including a huge sheet of steel.

We crossed over a bridge that separates one kingdom and another. The one we just moved into, the king had been put under house arrest for organizing a militia group. The participants of the group were arrested and put in jail.

Lafarge cement factory …. Biggest in country…. employs 1000 directly, 2000 indirectly.

Kasese… closest town to Congo were got Ugandan Shillings and water etc.

Queen Elizabeth NP is 1978 sq kms, 13 villages. Because their farms have been encroached into the park, the lions have been eating livestock. Consequently the farmers have been poisoning the lions. The park has lost of 15 of its lions. Lake George across the way is totally within Uganda border.

We have been upgraded to Simba Safari Lodge ….. very close to the park. It is really very lovely…. Even better than the last place which was tents. This is like a motel with rooms next to each other.

We stopped at the equator again but this time in Uganda near the entrance to the QE park. Did you know that when bullets or rockets are fired, they veer to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and that hurricanes do the same. They don’t cross the equator.

This area is so different than what we saw earlier in the day. It is flat like the Savannah in Kenya but green.

Waterbucks but no pix

Uganda Kob

An elephant way off in the distance

Lioness and cubs in the grass but still too far away

Crested eagle

300 feet away we actually got to the elusive leopard but of course my camera is not working. Oh my God, he is gorgeous!!! His back legs are straddling the branch of the euphorbia tree… swishes his tail, etc. the spots are quite a bit different than the cheetah. I’m so disappointed to not be able to get pictures. Maybe someone else has some that I can use.

There are no giraffes or zebras in this park.

Big buffalo

Red head spur-fowl

African waddled lapwing

Saw another bird with long tail.

Turned around in search of lions on the road apparently but when passing the place where we saw the leopard before, it had jumped down from its perch and was down laying on a mound of dirt.

Buffalos…. Don’t have good eyesight. They use their nose. Then we see a huge herd.

Bushbuck…. are solitary.

Dusk…. Herd a elephants