Blogs from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Western Region, Uganda, Africa - page 7

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Just a short entry for once... Gina and I started our long day off flying early (well early for me with no job...), from Cape Town to Jo'burg, Jo'burg to Nairobi, and finally Nairobi to Entebbe in Uganda, arriving at our hotel at approx midnight. pick up the next day was at 9, for what would turn out to be a 10 hour drive to Bwindi Inpenetrable forest. Our guide is Xavier, (he turns out to be THE WORST guide ever, and the most dangerous driver). anyway, he takes us an hour or so up the road to the Equator. here we get a demo on how the water does infact rotate in diff directions when poured down a sink, and when on the equator itself, does not rotate at all! NICE! The scenery is nice ... read more
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So those of you who know me better, you probably realised that my good intentions of regularly keeping this blog updated would never come to fruition. But I do have a valid excuse, I have been working my socks of juggling my two jobs (and everyone thought this was an extended holiday). From my first week I have been working from 8am to at the earliest 6.30 pm and sometimes much later, if I have to go to the tour camps to speak to visitors (awwww poor me). Sometimes the last thing you want to do is pick up the laptop again. My first week in Bwindi is a bit distant now. I remember I had lots to do, like organising the carpenter (david) to build me beds, trying to keep the mice out, repairing the ... read more
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Ok, so I am sat under my Banda (thatched walless, decked, eating/relaxing outdoor room) eventually finding some spare time to start my blog from Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in South West Uganda (2km from the Congo!) The moon has just risen over the forest hills, the ladies next door in the maternity section are signing and the chimpanzees are calling in the forest (ok well that’s a lie, but they were this morning), Altogether pretty idyllic (did I mention that I woke up last night with a rat crawling across my face!) I wasn't going to start a blog as they are pretty self indulgent, eg my life is so great, what is yours like but I decided this would be a good way of staying in touch with family who aren't on face book so here ... read more
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I am new to this blogging thing, but I thought I would write about my recent trip to Africa to track the mountain gorillas of Uganda and Rwanda. I usually travel on my own, arranging things as I go, but I was limited with the time I had available and also I have heard that you have to prebook your gorilla tracking permits way in advance, so I thought I would consult a Tour operator. I gave a couple of UK based tour operators a call and got some advice, but I could hear that none of them had actually been to either Uganda or Rwanda and so were giving me information that I could probably find on the internet. If I was going to do this once in a life time experience I had to ... read more




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