We’re up bright and early again and after having breakfast we hit the road back to Kampala, stopping to buy a couple of gorilla t-shirts from the locals on the way. BACK TO KAMPALA Forgot to add, the car that was brought to replace our broken one has also died, so yesterday another car and driver was brought from Kampala, so we are now on our third car, fourth if you include the wrong car at the beginning! Francis tells us now that we were in fact lost last night, the other driver said he knew of a short cut, turns out he didn’t! We have lunch at the same place as on the way down, this time there a lot more people (tourists) there. Food again is great and we are on our way nice ... read more

We're up and excited to be on our way to Bwindi, one more sleep and we get to (hopefully) see the gorillas!The restaurant packs us a paper bag with muffins, fruit and water to take with us for breakfast, yummy. We go outside just before 7am to wait for our driver to take us to Bwindi to see the gorillas. About 7:15am the doorman asks us who we are waiting for and we tell him Abacus Tours and he says ‘here the come now!’ A Landcruiser pulls up, the driver hops out and introduces himself and apologises that our intended driver is unwell so he was called at 3am to take his place. By now the doorman has loaded all our bags into the car. The driver hands me the phone and the man on the ... read more

WAKE-UP CALL Andrew (our guide) arrives at 7:30am with my hot chocolate and Tim’s orange juice. Not quite sure what happened to all the hours between 10pm and 7:30am, because I closed my eyes at 10pm and suddenly its morning, what a great sleep, my first warm night in ages! But sadly, no animal noises were heard - is that because there were none around or because we were virtually unconscious… I tried to turn the heater back on, click, click, click, click but nothing. After the 20th click, Tim had his head under the pillow, so I took this as a hint to give up, time to get ready for breakfast and our morning game drive anyway. BREAKFAST Having now experienced lunch and dinner we could only presume breakfast was not going to come up ... read more

NOW I MISS TECHNOLOGY I have to phone the Fraud people in Australia and because of time difference have to do it e-a-r-l-y, well before 0800 anyway. Because the only place I can get phone coverage is in the one spot in Reception I head up there at 0645, but it’s closed. I walk around for half an hour trying to get my phone to work, I must look like a complete technology city geek walking and looking at my phone waiting for any sign of life. Eventually get 2 bars, hallelujah! Get through the right department (should add here that I’m standing half way up the hill in the middle of the road), I kneel down to get information out of my bag and bang - disconnected, that half a metre obviously makes a lot ... read more

We left after breakfast for a 535km drive to Oudtshoorn (pronounced outs horn) along the famous Garden Route. We got stuck in a road works traffic jam for about an hour so that slowed things up a bit, okay a lot! But no signs to say so until you actually got to the spot. MONKEY HEAVEN We stopped at a place called Monkey Town (it only involved one u-turn to find it so we were happy with that). It was a sanctuary for mostly rescued monkeys that people had as pets and then abandoned. It was set up really well, with you walking in a cage tunnel and all the monkeys out in the open. They weren’t interested with us until they heard Tim’s chocolate wrappers then they were interested! DRIVING - RULES? NOT SO MUCH… ... read more