Today we got up at 5am to slowly get ready for another long drive day back into Uganda, with breakfast scheduled for 6am and our departure for 7am. We started heading towards Kigali before taking a shortcut through the mountains to cut some time from what was to be a […]
Year: 2009
Africa Day 12 – Pygmies + This is Africa
I got up at 7am today before having a nice breakfast of cereal, eggs and toast and catching up on writing this journal. We all met by the truck at 9am to see some pygmies when a matatu minibus arrived with two guides in to take us there. The matatu […]
Africa Day 11 – Gorilla Trek
Today was the day we had all been waiting for when we would finally see the rare Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. I woke at 5am before getting ready and making sure that everybody who had upgraded to a room were awake and having a quick breakfast. We […]
Africa Day 10 – Kigali Genocide Memorial
Today was a very long day but one that would show us so many things and be memorable for good and bad reasons. I woke up really early in an attempt to have a nice shower before everybody used the hot water but fell down a ditch that ran across […]
Africa Day 9 – Lake Bunyonyi
I had to set my alarm for 530am today which, combined with all of the noises both in and outside the tent, meant I hardly got any sleep last night. We did have a nice breakfast as the sun rose which helped to make up for it a bit, before […]
Africa Day 8 – Queen Elizabeth NP
It was a fairly leisurely start today as we didn’t expect it to be a very long day… we were wrong. The day started with us heading into the nearby town of Fort Portal for supplies. I was on cook duty today so helped Den with shopping in the local […]
Africa Day 7 – Chimp Trek
I didn’t have a good nights sleep last night as I hoped so wish I could have had a lay-in today but I was on bag duty this morning so had to get up on time to open up the truck for people who were trekking to see the chimps […]
Africa Day 6 – Kampala to Chimps
A fairly leisurely start this morning as we all had a rough nights sleep – there were a few dogs that decided they didn’t like each other in the night and kept fighting near our tents. Den cooked eggs for breakfast which was a nice change although it was quite […]
Africa Day 5 – Into Uganda
Another early start today, with breakfast at 530, in an attempt to make it to the border early. It wasn’t far to the border but we expected it to take some time due to all the processes that needed to be undertaken. We made a quick stop at Webuye, near […]
Africa Day 4 – Gilgil to Eldoret
This morning we got up early and started getting breakfast together when, on time, the baboons arrived. Den decided to scare them away by running at them waving cooking utensils above his head and somehow I got volunteered to join in to stop them stealing food, raiding the bins etc […]