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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 13 Lake Bunyoni to Kampala, Uganda

    Monday 04 December 2017. Photos
    Highlights: Water Volley Ball, Equator Water Test

    Today was a long travel day from Lake Bunyoni to Kampala which is 470 km and 11.5 hours drive away. We left our campsite 6.30 am which meant I was saying goodbye to me upgraded cabin which was very nice way to spend the last four nights.

    We do a seat rotation on the truck and today that meant I was up at the front with a table. This gave me a very different view of the roads and how people drive, let’s say it’s probably best not to know how our skilful driver has to be to not hit the traffic in the towns and cities. It can be very tiring on the truck during this long drives.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 12 Lake Bunyoni, Uganda and Kigali, Rwanda

    Sunday 04 December 2017. Photos
    Highlights: The Kigali Genocide Memorial, Hotel Rwanda, Belgian Solider Memorial

    Today was the unexpected journey to another new country in Rwanda. This wasn’t an option I was aware of but one I’m glad I was able to undertake as I got a chance to visit are previously war torn country that in very recent history, 1994 in fact, experience a genocide. We must all attempt to learn something from the dark points of our shared history and try to honour the victims.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 11 Lake Bunyoni and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

    Saturday 02 December 2017. Photos. Video.
    Highlights: The Amazing Mountain Gorillas (The Bwera family)!!!!

    Today was the big day, the day to hike and attempt to find the endangered mountain gorillas who now number around 750-800 and who are slowly increasing in number. This was an amazing day of seeing these beautiful, peaceful creatures, who are very closely related to humans. They are such stunning creatures, and I feel so privileged to see these gorillas.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 10 Lake Bunyoni, Uganda

    Friday 01 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Little Angels School, Views of Lake Bunyoni

    Today those not going to the mountain gorillas today decided to visit the Little Angels Uganda who look after orphans and run a local school. This meant a very easy morning with no tents to pull down and breakfast at 9.00 am, how easy to we have this?

    A volunteer from the Little Angels group met us at our truck on the campsite at 9.30 am and off we went by foot to explore the island a little. This small hike, all uphills for the first 30 minutes is good preparation for tomorrow’s gorilla hike. The effort was worth it as we got awesome views of the Lake area. (more…)

  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 9 Kampala to Lake Bunyoni, Uganda

    Thursday 30 November 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: The Equator – two Hemispheres at once!

    Today was the last of the three back to back long drive days. Our tour leader let as sleep in a little so we left Kampala campsite at 7 am for the 470 km and 10 hours drive though the beautiful Uganda countryside. Agriculture is obviously the major industry in Uganda, any crop that needs lots of water is farmed here.

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