Languid lions and more
We went to Ishasha national park on Mummy's off day, (after she had been getting a work permit in Kampala), to have a holiday and see the animals. We drove 1 3/4 hours on a very bumpy, rocky road and I got very hot in the car because we were going into the plains, down from the mountains in which we live. There were less tress but more grass. I think the reason why we saw lots of animals is because there is more undergrowth in the cloud-forests of the Bwindi mountains compared to the Ishasha plains.
On the day we arrived the park ranger said we may be able to see some sleeping, tree-climbing lions in a giant fig tree nearby. At the fig tree it was amazing to see 6 lions lounging in the shade of the leaves. I don't know why they didnt run away. They didn't seem very bothered about us. Maybe because we were not doing anything to them except taking photos. Maybe also becasue they were used to people coming and watching them.
We also saw elephants, leopards, water buck, baboons and lots of Ugandan cob, which is like antelope and the place where we were staying (called a "banda") had hippo nearby.
When we went to Ishasha we found lots of animals that were new and some of them were lions. A few days back there at first 6 and then 5. And the lions were on the trees not on the ground. And that was good because then we could drive.
And we saw a leopard which was spotty and white and it was too far away for Rosie to see. So we had to borrow some binoculars so Rosie could see. It was asleep I think. And one of the lions growled at me. And we went a bit further from the lion's tree. And then we saw the leopard.
The baboons were right on the road but they walked away which was good. And a ginormous baboon which was hiding in a big ginormous bush and it was sitting down and Daddy took some pictures of it.
And we had a long-drop which was a hole in the toilet room, near a little banda that we stayed in. It had some beds, and it had 2 lights not on the ceiling. We could hear some hippo nearby. There were some guards that got the animals that were not nice away.
Our banda had a grass roof and walls made of mud and wood with a concrete floor. It had 2 beds with mosquito nets which are for keeping the mosquitos away becasue if you get bitten by them they might give you malaria disease. There was no water, electricity, sink, cooker, table, toilet, fridge, carpet, TV, toys, although there was a toilet outside.
We saw at another shelter some soldiers watching TV that came from a satellite dish. The soldiers were there because just the other side of the nearby river was the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We ate at another banda which was the eating place for the park tourists.