April 24, 2015

The Wilkes crew at the top of Murchison Falls

“What a nice meal of warthog, now I’m so tired…”

Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda truly is a gem. It is smaller than the large game parks in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, but it has most of the same animals and is very non-commercialized.  I haven’t been to the large parks, but this is my 5th time to Murchison and I never ceased to be amazed.  The 4 woman seem to have brought good luck for animal sightings this year.

Nap-time after the exercise of the kill (warthog in the background) and a delicious meal.

On the first day we saw the best lions I’ve ever seen- a large male resting next to his kill and a Mama lioness with her single cub playing around while we watched from about 10ft in the vehicle.  We also saw many of the other animals- I’ll let the pictures do the talking- enjoy!

Elephants just crossed the road right in front of us!

Uganda Kob, a type of Antelope

We sat in the vehicle only 10 ft away from this Mama and her cub for probably 30-45min. She was loving and playful with the cub and didn’t seem to mind that we were watching

A beautiful sunset over the Savannah to end a beautiful day!