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A Day of travel to safari.

7/29/2013

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Today we
started our trip to Murchison Falls for the safari. We left the hotel in Mbale
at seven thirty this morning and started our eight-hour drive to the falls. The
roads were great most of the way there with a few bumpy parts to start with but
after we got out of Sarati. We stopped an hour or so after that and had a great
American lunch of fried chicken and French fries. We were getting close to the
park and we passed a baboon on the highway which was really cool. When we
finally made it to the park we had about an hour drive through it to the hotel
and it was so amazing seeing so many animals.


            Inside the
park we saw a lot of different animals including giraffes, elephants, warthogs
and cob. It was so cool seeing all of these wild animals for the first time not
on a television screen or inside a zoo. Something about seeing an animal in its
natural habitat is just awe inspiring, and quite a few animals were really
close to our van and it was just awesome. However most of the fun I had was the
searching the vast landscape and then finally spotting something that wasn’t a
cob, they were more than numerous, but giraffes and elephants. Luckily for  us though no lions came near us since most of
my time driving through the park was spent hanging out the window to find
animals.


            An hour or
so later we made it to the hotel and my jaw dropped, its so gorgeous here and
rustic looking. We are right next to the Nile River and I spotted hippos just
chilling out in the water.  After hanging
out in the pool and enjoying some tea time we retreated back to our rooms which
I think are so pretty, everyone has a balcony that over looks the Nile, to wash
up for dinner.


            Tomorrow we
start our day at six in the morning to go on safari which I’m really excited
about since I have never been on an African safari. Its going to be a nice
relaxing day after that and are going on a boat trip down the Nile. This week
has been very busy and nothing like I would of imagined it would be like for
the week. I am very excited for tomorrow because after all that work it will be
nice to just kick back and relax for a day before our journey back home.


Erin Thompson
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