I remember when I was little and my sisters and I would beg our parents to
take the “Jungle Road” on the way to Grandpa’s house. As my Dad would twist and turn through the
dense area filled with trees, we’d be singing, “Lions and tigers and
bears. Oh my!” thinking that these
animals co-habituated together.
Fast-forward to our elementary school days and we quickly learned that
these animals are in fact spread out on Planet Earth.
Well, two weeks ago I was singing a song to the same tune but the lyrics changed
to, “Lions and zebras and warthogs. Oh
my!”
A couple friends and I went on a safari where we were able to see some of
Africa’s indigenous animals freely roam the vast savannah. According to our guide, spotted hyenas and
lions could be heard roaming through our campground during our stay.
Thank gosh our mesh windows did the
job...
Each day we woke up with the sun and watched as it set behind the mountains
and painted the sky and mirage of pinks, yellows, and oranges. We sat on top of a safari vehicle as it navigated
the dirt roads that took us up close and personal to the African buffalo, kobs,
ostriches, and giraffes. We ate lunch in
the middle of the park where an ostrich could have had a bite of my hard-boiled
egg. We watched as a pack of lionesses spotted
a group of warthogs for lunch.
The warthogs won and the lions went hungry.
We took in the beauty that is Uganda and felt incredibly blessed and lucky
to be living amongst these animals in their pristine land.
One of the 2,317 African Buffalo we saw
This little guy is a serval and he roams the land amongst all the other gigantic animals
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