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The Uganda national bird is the grey crowned crane. Beautiful bird!

After a lengthy de-mudding process, we walked a mile or so up the road to meet members of the local community (3 hours late, but they still greeted us warmly.) We enjoyed their traditional dances, joining in a one when they encouraged us, then visited one home- 15 or so foot diameter mud hut...

Let's jump now to Pian Upe game park. We stayed at an almost 'glamping' lodge that does serve as a hunting concession as well as good start point to photo safari. Unfortunately we were there during the rainy season, so the tall grass and more dispersed wildlife made seeing the leopards and...

The Land Cruiser trucks would be my first choice!

traveling overseas always makes me wish we got the cool 4x4s here in the US. https://www.the-star.co.ke/classifieds/cars-for-sale/sap/yEa6A61l-i4Rf5veaBD2Gw?slot=1

The next morning was game drive via the "green machine"- the older Toyota 4x4 van that died partway through our tip. I will organize by species!

We did a boat safari on the Nile below the falls that afternoon. Note the short trunk on the elephant. Guide suspects is was caught in a poacher's snare.

Next was Murchison Falls National Park. A great place if you want to see a lot of classic African wildlife quickly (although some such as wildebeest are not in Uganda at all). Our one quick lion sighting didn't result in any good photos, but an amazing number of giraffes. The namesake water...

We did have a lot of fun while traveled as well. We spent the two weeks mixing site visits and meetings with supporting their tourism industry. First stop was Bwindi Impenetrable Rain Forest National Park for a gorilla trek. Bwindi is home to about half of the world's remaining 1,000 mountain...

Thanks. And I am sure our connections to Uganda aren't over. Will be working on some new projects once we narrow down where to focus our efforts. So much need!

One of my favorite views!

I loved the reception we received when we visited the project sites and met with community members. We were met with dancing and singing, which Ugandans seem to love to do when they are happy. One of the most exciting things is that the community members have taken the training we provided at...

It may take a few days, but I will walk you through my recent 2 weeks in Uganda. To start, the purpose of the trip was to visit sites of some developmental projects I helped develop and fund through our Rotary club, in partnership with a Rotary club in Mbale, Uganda. We worked with local...

Cool! That would be a fun hunt.

A teaser of my last 2 weeks. An official post to come when time allows.