Day 6 - Animals!

Today we hit the road early and went to Queen Elizabeth National Park. It is the biggest national park in Uganda. There are 11 villages in the grounds because they were there when the park formed in 1952. In 1989 13 people died in one village due to a lion attack. We took a two hour boat ride/ safari. We saw a ton of elephants, hippos, buffalo, birds, and some crocodiles. It was a lot of fun and we are all very sunburnt! We then ate lunch, where our tables and everything was covered in harmless ants. FYI the ant hills here are two and a half feet tall.... I will never again complain about the ants in the states. Then we took a game drive through the park and saw a ton of gazelles and kobbs, but never any lions... On our way back to Mbarra (the district we are sleeping in for four nights) we stoped in a village and bought plantains off the heads of women in the village! Oh, and the toliets keep getting better! Today we had a toilet that was a hole in the ground and the size and shape of a brick... Good night!!