photos from the zoo and the field
on the 23rd, we were at the MIHV field office to attend a certification and bike-giving ceremony for the community health workers that have received family planning education from MIHV. check out the day's photo gallery here with comments by paige. for me it was a long day of taking photos. felt like work.
and saturday we went to the uganda wildlife education center, aka entebbe zoo. entebbe is ~60,000 population, is 60km south of kampala proper and is the location of the international airport, among other things.
the zoo was pretty cool. nice atmosphere and about as low tech as you can get; you're separated from the lion by a chain link fence, from the rhinos by a sturdy steel fence that would be easy to walk through, and from the monkeys - well, the monkeys freely roam the grounds. the animals have a lot of space, they seem healthy and happy and their habitat seems nice and clean. the water for the otter, crocs and fish was a little sketch, but hopefully it's healthy. big highlights were seeing the shoebill, which we haven't seen in the wild yet, monkeys taking over the adjacent golf course, the jungle cats of course, and the red-tailed monkeys which had been our favorites in the wild but now we got to see them closer up.
check out the zoo photos here. it was nice evening light, so i got some good pics.
and saturday we went to the uganda wildlife education center, aka entebbe zoo. entebbe is ~60,000 population, is 60km south of kampala proper and is the location of the international airport, among other things.
the zoo was pretty cool. nice atmosphere and about as low tech as you can get; you're separated from the lion by a chain link fence, from the rhinos by a sturdy steel fence that would be easy to walk through, and from the monkeys - well, the monkeys freely roam the grounds. the animals have a lot of space, they seem healthy and happy and their habitat seems nice and clean. the water for the otter, crocs and fish was a little sketch, but hopefully it's healthy. big highlights were seeing the shoebill, which we haven't seen in the wild yet, monkeys taking over the adjacent golf course, the jungle cats of course, and the red-tailed monkeys which had been our favorites in the wild but now we got to see them closer up.
check out the zoo photos here. it was nice evening light, so i got some good pics.
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