QEP

Our first full day at the Queen Elizabeth National Park, with a very early start! We saw a beautiful sunrise over the park. The days viewing was mainly of prey rather than predators. We saw so many beautiful birds and as we are not 'birdwatchers' we welcomed our guides expertise. We saw so many Waterbucks and Kob, Warthogs, Elephants, Buffalo and the odd Lizard. We almost ran over a very long trail of ants and came across a very big ant hill. We saw the Waterbucks, Kob and Warthogs up close and the rest from a distance. Our guide had very good eyesight and spotted the animals we couldn't even see.

The day was split with lunch back at Simba Safari Camp where we were staying. It was such an amazing day seeing all these animals in the wild and so incredible see so many of them.

What was really enjoyable was that it felt like we had the whole park to ourselves with only very occasionally coming across other tourists.

Simba Safari Camp was very comfortable and the staff were excellent. Our stay would have been perfect if a group of other guests had a little more courtesy towards others. The staff handled them very well though, despite this group of guests being very demanding and rude to them. The lodge only had a certain number of plugs for guests to recharge their camera batteries and this group of particular guests decided that they had more right than anybody else and unplugged everyone else's batteries to plug in their own, apparently to them taking your turn and sharing doesn't exist. Unfortunately, this wasn't the last time that we would experience their rudeness.

On the other hand they were a small annoyance compared to the fantastic first day we had at QEP.

We stayed at Simba Safari Camp