Murchison Falls Safari

We had the opportunity to go on the Murchison Falls Safari while in Uganda. It’s 3893 km² with only 150 lions and 50 leopards so it was crazy to see them so many times. It was such a cool experience to get to see all the animals so close and in their natural habitats. We made a list at the very start of all the animals we wanted to see and screamed out each animal as we saw it. When we first got there, we visited the waterfall and Jessie and I got soaked from all the mistiness. The drive in, we were amazed at everything we were able to see just on the first day. We had so much fun taking pictures and watching the animals. We had such a good guide who knew where all the hangouts were, so he was able to lead us to animals we totally would’ve missed. At one point, we drove so close to a pride of lions just chilling by a water hole. We even saw a leopard in a tree, and our guide got it to climb down. We also went on a river cruise and got to go way up close to the hippos. If Dad was to describe the safari in one word, he would say “anticipation because as we were driving around, we never knew when we would see something, we were just on pins and needles, and it was so exciting when we would see something”. Mom’s would be “seek-and-find because it reminded me of one of those seek-and-find pages in one of those kid’s books because you know there’s really interesting things to see but you don’t know where they are so you’re constantly looking and anticipating, really, something exciting like a lion or elephants or a leopard”. Overall, it was incredibly fun, and I loved getting to take pictures of everything.