Drive from Queen Elizabeth Park to Bwindi

We got to sleep in today!!!!  Had a relaxing breakfast at the lodge before heading out on our morning game drive on our way to Bwindi!

Game drive in the morning

• Elephants
• Warthogs kept running away from us

Happy travelers!

 

We had a picnic lunch in the bush before our afternoon game drive… what an experience!

Magical drive from Queen Elizabeth Park to Bwindi – thousands and thousands of butterflies!  It is impossible to describe the beauty we are seeing – it is surreal!

The "highway"

 

 

Game drive in the afternoon

• We looked hard for Lions and Leopards all day, but never found any.  Davis tried really hard to find us a leopard 
• Kim and Sue helping look   
• Incredibly beautiful scenery as we were looking for animals

 

 

On our drive Davis asked us about the Gorilla groups and hiking we wanted to do.  There are three groups close to this lodge (easy - 30 minute to 1 hour, medium 2 to 3 hour, hardest 5 to 6 hours).  Apparently the guides meet the night before and negotiate who gets which group.  We told Davis to go for the medium trek.

As we were drove in Bwindi it started raining – it was incredible.  This is a view looking at a large banana plantation.   

 

The Bwindi Lodge is fantastic!  Internet access in the main lodge is great!  No charging devices in our room.  We are staying in Kutu and Kim and Gina are staying in Bob, both are named after local Gorilla’s.  We have the entire lodge to ourselves!  I just cannot describe how incredible this place is!

 

 

 

 

View from our cabin

 

I’m having a Jack Daniels while I write this blog.  They just brought a small fire pit into the main room at the lodge to warm us up and keep bugs away.  We can hear the local tribe doing the Gorilla dance and wishing trekkers well.

Tonight we had hot water bottles in our beds when we returned to our rooms!  How sweet is that!!! …and an armed guard outside our cabins all night!