Mabira Forest

We spent the weekend at the Rainforest Lodge in Mabira Forest

The cabin was lovely, right in the forest. I lay in bed watching red-tailed monkeys playing in the trees outside.

Not long after we arrived in Kampala there were some riots about the Kinyara Sugar Corporation buying parts of the forest to plant sugar cane. Mabira is the largest area of indigenous forest in central Uganda but it is being cleared at an alarming rate. The riots resulted in three deaths and the arrest and imprisonment of Members of Parliament! People here are aware of global warming, climate change and understand the importance of forests. We had a visit to the forest on our list of places to visit before we leave and there was an unexpected long weekend with a public holiday for the death of the traditional King (Kabazinga) of the Busoga region of Uganda. We stayed in a cabin overlooking the trees and walked in the forest with a guide which brought my bird list to over 120 since coming to Uganda! It was quiet and cool and it rained....it is a rainforest after all!