Another early start and we headed off to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Rain forest gave way to Savannah as we headed north and once we entered the park we saw elephant and buffalo and herds of Defassa waterbuck and Cops gazelle.
The park is not fenced and villages and human settlements are dotted around inside park borders. We got to Bush Lodge by lunchtime. It's a stunning tented camp on the banks of the Kazinga Channel.
After lunch we did a boat cruise. We saw herds of elephants and buffalo and lots of hippos. The birding was good. We saw hundreds of pied kingfishers; they are more common than sparrows and more than 20 malachite kingfishers too.
In the evening we drove to the salt marshes where locals still make salt like they did in the 1700s.
On our return through the park we had a great sighting of hyena.
Dinner and a few drinks around a campfire round off a great day.
13 January
Early the next morning we did another game drive. This time we had to take a park guide who insisted Sam roar around looking for the lions while he jabbered on his phone trying to locate them and we did eventually find them. We are all seasoned game-viewers, so he was confused to find us unimpressed by his shenanigans.
The equator runs through the park so you can stand with 1 foot in the northern and the other in the southern hemisphere here.
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