Jan 23  Day 8 Today we had another 3 ish hour drive in a small, crampped, uncomfortable van to the Nkuringo gorrila camp site. The road was dirt cholk full of pot holes, rocks and landlides. We all looked like bobble heads because of the constant jerking and bumping around. We eventually made it up these treacherous dirt mountain roads and were warmly greeted at the camp site.  We got shown our rooms and then the camp grounds.   The local town put a show on for us they sang and danced it was so touching. It started out ontop of a hill overlooking the valley and village below it was georgous but it started to rain so we had to run down the hill a little way to a large sheltered area where they continued the ... read more

Jan 21  Day 6  We had a lazy day today. We chilled at the camp most of the morning, I caught up on here sitting on the spectacular deck. Then we headed off to Kampala the capital of Uganda to do some shopping then pick up some more passangers tonight. After we got to camp we set up, Maydeena and I went for a dip in the pool which was about the size of a hot tub. Then we all hung out exchanged emails and then started dinner.  We had cottage/sheppards pie, which Tan made and it was delicious. Our 3 other passangers arrived later all ozzies a couple and one solo guy. The couple got here late so we didn't talk to them much but the kid got there around dinner time. He seems prett ... read more

Jan 19 Day 4 Today was our soft power voulenteer group day.  It was really cool and inspiring. They took us to one their base near town where we got a small tour/orientation of the organization. It was really amazing. We all bought some things from their craft/arts shop. Then we hopped on a truck and went on the other side of town to help paint some schools. It wasn't easy painting though becaue the brushes were just stubs and the cement wasn't smooth it was really bumpy and textured. So we basically had to stamp the paint into the cement and it was so watery that most of it ended up on the ground. We had a small lunch out there some plain maze but some awesome sweet potatoes and decent spinach dish.  When we ... read more

Jan 16 Day 1 So I had my breaky then got a taxi over to hotel boulvard. There were a number of tour groups meeting there for their tours. Some really cool big safari trucks. Then ours came and it is pretty pimp not as old and rugged looking but it's really sick. Anyway our first drive was only a couple of hours or so and we stopped to look at mt longronot along the way.  When we got to the park  we had lunch outside it was good, some lunch meat and veggies and some south African chutney, delicious. Then we went on our first game drive. It was awesome not even 2 mins in and we saw buffalo and zebras and some hogs. Then we drove out onto the lake flats to get a ... read more

Jan 12 Well my driver collected me early and we headed off to round up a few more people then hit the bus station. Where he put us on the bus and sent us 5-6 hours in to the desert to Baharia oasis.  Where we were met by mobs of tour operators and touts. Our guide had no sign just said his name wlgdy. He separated us into some old 4 runners and away we went. We drove for an hour or so before stopping for lunch which our driver made fo us. It was pretty good. My car consisted of a weird German guy named gregory and a Japanese kid named Teto. Our first stop Cristal mountain. I was under the assumption we were going to hike this or something or at the least it ... read more