Safari Day
“Today” (it’s actually Thursday, but I’m going
to write as if it were last night) we went on a safari! It was really fun, and
relaxing, and kind of once-in-a-lifetimelike. The bus ride, though most
Americans would probably call it a van, was terrifying. We rattled down the
road, barely avoiding potholes, people, and passing cars, for over an hour to
get to the national park. Then we rattled down dirt roads, stopping to take
pictures of warthogs, antelope, giraffes, water buffalo (they were actually
cape buffalo), and even elephants, and
some famous Ugandan Cranes (Great Crested Cranes, the national bird of
Uganda). We stopped at a pond full of hippos,
and we went to the bank of the Nile River. While there, we took lunch and
fended off hungry baboons while waiting for the boat that would take us to
Murchison Falls, known to the natives as “The Devil’s Eye.” On the boat ride,
we saw many of the same animals we saw in the van, plus a glimpse or two of a
crocodile. When we reached our destination, we climbed out onto a big rock and
took pictures with the fall in the background. Then we found out that we couldn’t
do the hike up to the falls that we had planned on, so we rode back in the
boat. On the way, we stopped right next to a crocodile that was sitting on the
bank. I was at the front of the boat, so the croc was probably about ten feet
from me, staring at me with its mouth hanging open. I was, uh, only a little
nervous.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful
compared to all that, except that Emmery scolded a baboon that was about to try
to take some trash from her, and then it hit her on the leg, and took the trash
anyway after she threw it away. A beautiful sunset and another crazy bus ride
later (Seriously, it was ridiculously scary. We were bouncing down the
road, weaving back and forth around potholes, coming literally within inches of
hitting pedestrians. I never thought I would be so grateful for a yellow line…), and we were back at the hotel for the
night. More tomorrow… er, today…
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