Day 5 and 6- Queen Elizabeth National Park

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  Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

After our long drive from Kampala we entered Queen Elizabeth National Park with terraced hillsides, lush banana plantations, steep mountains and tangled forests.

We woke up early to go on a game drive in the park where we saw Ugandan Kob, waterbuck, elephants, warthogs, hippos, buffalo and even a lion hiding in the grass.

Nearby the park we visited the Kyambura Gorge where we went on a chimpanzee trek. Petra who was our guide carried a gun to warn any animals that might get too close.

We hiked for 2 hours down in the gorge cossing hippo filled rivers by using fallen logs and hanged onto vegetation on the side of steep cliffs as we track the chimps.

Petra was able to track their location in the dense forests by looking for their fresh droppings and fruit discards that they dropped from the trees above. Unlike the larger gorilla, chimps live mostly in trees where it is more difficult to view them from a distance.

We were greeted by a groups of chimps with loud deafening screeches that rang through the forest tops. My group was lucky to find them as the group that went the next day didn't get a chance to see them.

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Elephant	Hippo heading back to the lake   Comments!	African buffalo grazing	Warthog
Birds	Not sure	Crossing hippo filled river	Petra our guide for our chimp trek
Bill at the top of the gorge	Finding the chimps	Ugandan kob	Sunset at Queen Elizabeth Park   Comments!
Hippo entering the water	Sunset along the lake   Comments!	Elephant   Comments!	Hippo heading back to the lake
After the chimp trek with Petra by our truck	Another elephant	Sunset along the lake	Hippo entering the water
Snake	Chimp in the tree	Herd of elephants near our campsite	Trekking for the chimps
Local village at sunset	View of the gorge from above	Local woman doing the wash outside	Mom and baby elephant
Boats	Road at queen Elizabeth Park	Another sunset shot	Lunch stop at the park
Petra checking to see if it is okay to cross

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