Uganda, Africa

Like any big city in the states, Kampala has busy streets filled with pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcycles and vehicles of every type, as well as big city problems of overcrowding and pollution.

A contrast to the city, the green lush forests of Uganda are home to a different primate, one that lives in harmony with its surroundings, the mountain gorilla.

After starting the engine, she got a little upset, especially while her five cubs were so close. With the lioness rapidly approaching the vehicle, we rapidly backed off. Queen Elizabeth National Park

A colorful carmine bee-eater sits atop a accacia tree.

A very full lion cub checks the view on top of a termite mound. Carcasses of Kob (similar to Impala) litter the area. QENP

On Ngamba Island, a chimpanzee sanctuary on Lake Victoria, "Surprise" digs into a passion fruit. Appropriately named, she was born into the troop despite all the females being on birth control.

A female leopard silently disappears into the grass at Murchison Falls National Park.

In Uganda's Impenetrable Forest, a young mountain gorilla gazes back at us through the thick folliage. M Group - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park