Long Day of Travel

This will be very short as we've been at an airport and in a plane since 8:00 this a.m. and it's now 1:00 a.m. Our connections have been great...Pam making all the reservations and pick up/delivery, airport has gone like clock work so far. We are in the Victoria Hotel in Entebbe...quite lovely. Our group is scheduled to gather at 9:00 tomorrow morning for a briefing and then we'll get in our safari vehicles and be off for Kibale Forest National Park. We've met one of our guides at the airport and he seems like a really nice guy. We'll see what the morning brings. Here is our itinerary for tomorrow:
We board our Land Rovers in the morning and drive into the lush green countryside of Uganda, a country described by Winston Churchill as “the Pearl of Africa.” We pass through landscapes where African farmsteads
crammed with bananas and tropical trees mingle with wetlands and patches of forest or bush, and give way to tea plantations as we gain elevation. After a picnic lunch en route, we enter Kibale Forest National Park, where we
may catch our first glimpse of chimps, baboons, or other primates. While in Kibale, we’ll stay at Primate Lodge, a luxury tented camp consisting of eight deluxe safari tents. They are raised on wooden platforms and feature
verandas, comfortable beds, and en-suite bathrooms. We gather for meals in the open-air restaurant and can relax in the cozy bar, lounge, or around the fireplace. (6-7 hours driving).

So that's what we know for now. It may be some time again before we have internet connections, so if you don't hear from us for awhile, don't worry. I will continue to blog each day (I hope), and when we can we'll post what we've done. Wishing you all well. We are off for our adventure!

Location:Entebbe, Uganda