Blogs from Western Region, Uganda, Africa - page 29

South of Fort Portal lies a region of crater lakes formed in the distant past. It's supposedly a pleasant area to hang out in hence - since I'm all about hanging out - it has some appeal. As I am breakfasting in Fort Portal I meet a pair of young Aussies who are doing a Cape Town to Cairo trip. They are heading to my own intended destination, Lake Nkuruba, so we agree to share transport there. Our accommodation choice is, of course, the sole offering from the WLP. I'd stumbled across some forum threads stating that a rival camp next door with a very similar name has been "stealing" customers by bribing the taxi drivers in Fort Portal to bring them to the wrong site. The owner of this rival camp claims that his profits ... read more

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

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

My first glimpse of mountain gorillas at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park made the high prices and the journey to get here so worthwhile. I’d left Masaka a week earlier by Post Bus, having failed (twice) to see Shoebills. The Post Buses literally carry post and passengers between post offices along a route. Unusually, or so I was told, the bus I was waiting for was over 2 hours late due to a breakdown. The time was filled by a Ugandan woman occasionally striking up conversation with me: it’s not the first time in my life that I have been asked, “Are you saved?” but I think it is the first time I’ve been asked, “To what tribe do you belong?” I had thought that I would stay for a couple of days in Kabale, but the ... read more

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