After meeting many of the animals in the Lake Mburo national park, we are almost at the end of our journey. Now it is time for the buffalos and the very curious warthogs.
During our walk, we saw many warthogs (if you didn’t notice yet, they are nonetheless the same species as Pumba, from Disney’s The Lion King); they seemed to be, as I said before, very curious.
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Today, the focus is on the antelopes of the park.
As you will notice from the images, these animals are very curious and, after getting to know us and understanding that we are not a threat to their community, sociable; in fact, we could get quite close to them without scare them away or disrupting their behaviour.
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Hello,
the journey at the Lake Mburo national park continues with a very beautiful animal: the zebra.
This time, the post is going to be mainly visual, meaning that I won’t write much and let you get a feeling by yourself.
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Today’s post is focused on the primates in the Lake Mburo National Park, namely the the Olive Baboons and the Vervet Monkeys.
Right after getting at the HQ of the park, a troop (yeah, I googled that up) of baboons crossed a road nearby.
At first, we were all very excited, it was our first close encounter with the wildlife (we had only seen some zebras on the way to the HQ, while being on the boda-boda); little we knew that we would see more and more of them and even from a closer distance.
Young Vervet Monkey
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Hello everyone,
as promised, today starts the series of posts regarding my visit at the Lake Mburo National Park, located in the western Uganda.
Although being the smallest national park in Uganda, this park still hosts many species of wildlife, including zebras, hippos and buffaloes.
The trip to the park has been quite long; in fact, it takes slightly more than 4 hours to get to the park HQ from Kampala. What made the trip more exhausting was waking up at 4am and then having to wait more than an hour for the matatu (the mini-bus which brought us near one of the gates of the park) to be full.
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Hey everyone,
I am writing just to inform you that I am going to post throughout this week pictures from my first trip to an Ugandan national park.
Sunset in Kampala
Last Sunday, with some friends, I went to the Lake Mburo national park (near Mbarara) to have a day trip.
It has been amazing and I feel we have been rather lucky as we visited it during the afternoon (the best time to see the fauna is either in the morning or in the evening, when the animals go back to the lake to get some water); but we’ve managed to see impalas, which, in Uganda, only lives in Lake Mburo, zebras, as well as baboons, buffalos and a hippo. Very exciting!
Andrea – our house cat
I don’t think I need to add anything more.
So, stay tuned!
Peace.
/Nesh
Hey there,
today I will talk a bit of Nakawa Farmers Market (or simply Nakawa Market), in Kampala.
The market is located in the Nakawa district and is a place where a lot of people sell their goods; from clothes to fresh vegetables and fruits.
Very busy and hectic, the market is the best place to find fresh products at a cheap price. Most of the times the price needs to be bargained, especially if you are a foreigner. It can happen that the price is even doubled from the original one and it takes determination, a bit of skill and some patience in order to get a fair price on the merchandise.
For now, I took only a panoramic picture of the market; but I assure you that the market itself is far more interesting.
I might head there tomorrow with a friend from work and take some more pictures. For the moment, I let your imagination work out how it might look like.
Have a great afternoon.
/Nesh
Hey pals, here is my first Image of the Day post from Kampala (Uganda). These are very simple images that can still show quite a bit of the area in which I’m currently living. The whole area is called Kinawataka (Ki is read ‘Chi’) and specifically in Kireka. My accommodation is located in the Kireka part, very close to the slums.
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This post comes a bit late, but I think later is better than never.
So, here we go!
Before my departure to Uganda, I decided to give myself a well-deserved short holiday. Poland has been in my mind for quite a while, especially knowing how easy (read cheap) it is to get there.
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Hello everyone,
the Spring finally arrived and I also start being much more active.
Not much to say about me other that I am soon going to be living and working in Uganda for the summer.
I am so excited and so looking forward to it, especially now that I have a new lens to my collection (for whoever is interested: Nikkor 70-300mm ).
I got all the vaccinations done and almost ready to go!
As a side note, I also started working on a movie project, we are still at pre-production phase, but whenever we get some stuff to show, I will surely upload them here.
This is it, just a quick update. Expect some pictures in the following weeks.
/Nesh
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