It's the weekend! (well sort of)

We finished our first week of community work and were rewarded with a trip to Queen Elizabeth's National Park and a trek with chimpanzees.

We went to the chimp trek first. It is quite scary following chimps, one they move so fast and two they don't look like the PG tips adverts (for the older ones of us) they really look like Planet of the Apes! They stay high in the trees so it is hard to see them without binoculars but you can certainly hear them as they make so much noise screeching at each other. 

Queen Elizabeth's is a safari reserve with tree climbing lions (something that I had never heard of before) and all the usual animals except zebra, giraffe and a few of the different types of antelope (there were some). The lions sightings are very rare but we were so lucky and saw them on both our game drives albeit one sighting was a distance away.

We also took a boat ride in the Kazinga Channel, this is a wide, 32-kilometre long natural channel that links Lake Edward and Lake George, with one of the world's largest concentration of hippos and numerous Nile crocodiles.

On the way back from Queen Elizabeth's we stopped to see hot springs where the Ugandan people come from hundreds of miles around to be 'healed' for skin complaints and illnesses. We went to the water to feel how warm the water was and it was bloody hot! How they sit in it I don't know. We were very lucky that the people agreed to be photographed.