Utunk ezután gyönyörű tájakon vezetett keresztül, csak az volt a baj, hogy az eddig is rossz aszfaltot földút váltotta fel, ami azon túl,
hogy nagyon hepe-hupás volt, minden szembejövő autó esetén porfelhőbe burkolt bennünket (légkondi nem lévén, nyitott ablakkal kellett utaznunk)We began this morning really early again because there was a long way ahead us. Our next accommodation would have been is Bwindi National Park in the the southwest corner of the country. No game drive was planned for today but we were alert to see any other animals we couldn’t see before. Suddenly Laura gave a shout: elefant! It was much closer than yesterday. After we enjoyed the sight and took enough photos we continued our way. I had a secret thought. I was happy to see this elefant but it would be good to see another one even closer eg. if it crossed the road in front of us. And oh boy, a miracle happened and the dream came true! After a bend I looked up and saw a small and a big elefant coming out from the forest, rumbled through the road in front of us and disappeared in the forest on the other side. It was about 50 m from us. This scene was so quick by the time I swithed on and focused my camera there was nothing to catch on. On one side it was sad to miss snapping this moment but on the other side I was happy to see them and my wish was fulfilled. Our road went through Ishasha which is famous for tree climbing lions. Is wasn’t alloud to leave the road and I couldn’t imagened a lion who rest on a tree right next to the road! But we tried to check every tree! About 5-10 m from us we saw two abandoned houses which were a little bit higher than the road, and we learned two lions were in them. We were waiting to see them. After a while one of them appeared in the door, walked into the other house, came out and stopped betweeen the two houses, looked directly into my eyes and roared as I was standing on the top of the bus to take better photos. Our driver considered this situation dangerous, he shouted at me to climb back into the bus immediately, but I couldn’t miss this moment. Finally the lion turned back and left. What a moment! I was never so close to a lion who was without cage .
Our road led us across picturesque lands, the only problem was that even the bad-quality tarmac was exchanged by bumpy dirt road and after every coming car we were in dustcloud (we didn’t have air-condition so our windows were opened). We saw higher and higher mountains and we climed higher on a serpentine road as well. Most of the time I didn’t dare to look down next to me because the edge of the deep precipice was really close. By the way the Ungandan drive extremely dangerously, maybe I write about this any other time. But the beautiful view made up to us for everything! For me the land with scattered houses seemed much more well-arranged and tidy than the towns and villages. It seemed the people cultivate every possible place (with a single hoe) even on the steep slopes.
We reached and left Bwindi and drove two more hours to reach our accommodation. By this time we were run down, we couldn’t have lunch anywhere, our water was warm, we were sticky from the dirt and sweat. Our place compare with the last one was beyond words (it was like a communal accommodation) and we weren’t informed why they changed the place and quality of our accommodation. After about two more hours the food (they could only prepare from the menu) was ready and about 6 pm we ate our lunch or dinner. Considering that we had eaten our breakfast 12 hours before, it was a good achievement. We knew next morning we had to get up early again so we went to bed in time and tried to sleep despite our noisy, Italian neighbours.
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