Uganda, Feb. 25 -- On a Thursday morning in November 2023, I and five friends embarked on a journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kasese District. It was the second destination on the itinerary of a road trip around tourism sites in western Uganda after Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Kanungu District where we participated in gorilla tracking.

The main activity we were to do at Queen Elizabeth was tracking tree -climbing lions. From Bwindi where we started off the journey in a Toyota Land Cruiser TX at 8am. It took us approximately five hours to Kasese District. The journey was long because of bumpy murrum stretches that slowed down the vehicle. At the time, Kasese was hot and we wore light clothes but packed enough soft drink...