http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Uganda , Western Region , Kabale en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 04:17:04 +0000 Sat, 25 May 2013 04:17:04 +0000 After a great nights sleep I got up fairly early and had breakfast at the Gorilla Rest Camp. After the journey I had on the boda boda to get to Ruhija from Kabale I wasnt exactly relishing the prospect of doing the same to get back to Kabale particularly after the rain that had fallen in the past two days. So when Wim and Annalise the Dutch couple I had tracked the gorillas with offered http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-736574.html Hello allI think this is probably my shortest but most important entry to date. We had to say bye for now to the amazing KIHEFO Kigezi Healthcare Foundation and I wanted to do them justice.Their website httpwww.kihefo.org is fantastic. Its very engaging and provides a great overview of the work they do. Id really recommend taking a quick look if you havent already theyre wo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-722894.html Hello hello Im still trying to catch up with photos and blogs around Uni work but my computer is just so slow and frustrating Drews seems to do everything really quickly. Ive been about to throw mine out of the window several times but luckily Drew has saved it by doing something that speeds it up. We think its a combination of my camera taking 14Megapixel pictures I guess thats http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-719553.html Hello everyoneSo...Im now in Africa Ive been slow again with photos and updates because Ive been behind with my Uni course sorryIn my last update we were getting ready to leave Brisbane in typical style it was pretty hectic which was good in a way because it stopped me from getting too emotional LTuesday 1st May BRISBANE to MELBOURNE Australia and then onto DOHA QatarWe http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-718870.html On Friday afternoon we headed up to Lake Bunyoni Uganda. The drive took about 3 hours including the border crossing. Lets just say it was not like going between the U.S. and Cananda. We parked our car and piled into the boat with three other couples and mountains of camping gear. Arriving at dusk we checked in and ordered dinner. The camp occupied the entire island with a combination of cot http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-548658.html I arrive late in Kabale slap bang in the middle of a power cut. I find out later that the shortages have been going on for five days Not too impressive for one of Uganda's larger towns. My chosen hostel a cosy little place called the Home of Edirisa and recommended by the LP is surprisingly not full and I grab a good night's sleep before packing a ton of biscuits and plenty of water and he http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-483328.html Ok so I know Ugandans are polite. So much so that I usually feel like a badly dressed potato around them. But the amount of messages I got after arriving me to Kabale asking if I was alright seemed kind of extreme even for Ugandan standards. But then my colleague Paul told that people weren't just polite they were asking quite literally if I had survived the trip. Looking at Ugandan road stat http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-451126.html Day 10 17.06.09Ruhengeri Rwanda Kabale Uganda An early departure from Ruhengeri and we were at the Rwandan Ugandan boarder in about a half hour. Weve quickly come to realise that if theres a boarder involved then nothing is simple in Africa. Our crossing was supposed to be as easy as getting from a to b however there always seems to be some jumped up boarder official wanting their payo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-415103.html It's a short journey back to Kabale from Lake Bunyonyi. As I wait for my taxi I idly glance over a map showing the districts of Uganda and am surprised to find that more than a quarter of them begin with K. I stay a couple of nights in Kabale. The Golan Heights hotel appeals because of its incongruous name but I choose a funky hostel that has wifi. Once again travellers are in the minority http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-405449.html My first glimpse of mountain gorillas at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park made the high prices and the journey to get here so worthwhile.Id 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 bre http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-374543.html Day 262 DRIVE DAY 281208Our time was up at Lake Buoyoni time to pack up tents and get back on the truck. We stopped again at Kabale opting for a coffee in place of being harassed throughout town. Back on the truck we filled the time napping reading and talking amongst ourselves before arriving at our first bush camp no toilets no showers no running water... just a place to put up the te http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-371934.html beste bloggers en andere aanverwantenWaaromWaarom nu pas de volgende editie van de avontuuren van cor en aar cola welnu onze tijdelijke woonplaats MontrealCanada gaat gebukt onder weersverschijnselen zoalsijsregens stormen en huul vuul sneeuw dit alles gaat gepaard met gemiddelde temperatuur van 20 graden onder nul.en dan doe je maar 1 ding BINNENZITTEN en dan vallen de blogjes toch een be http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-368804.html We had a reasonably easy border crossing into Uganda wish I could say the same for the 'roads'. We could easily have been driving through the middle of fields judging by the speed we could go and the pot holes some the size of a large dog. The difference between Kenya and Uganda was immediately obvious and incredible. The houses were round thatched mud huts in the middle of banana plantations p http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-315713.html hey allthe internet here sucks ass so this will be a short one. weve survived the first few days on our own and are now in the south of uganda in a town called kabale. we were up close and personal with black and white colubus monkeys which was amazing. theyre so silly. were heading out again in a few days to go golden monkey tracking and cave exploring...talk to you all soon It's Shannon now http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-276066.html Ive come to the end here in Kabale an endoftheline town just a few miles from the Rwandan border and just minutes after arriving on the Post Bus from Mbarara Im desperate to get to Kigali. Maybe the low brooding skies have cast this town in unflattering shades of gray maybe Im cranky and have a stomach ache and ought to know better about first impressions. But after a quick walk http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-268592.html Danes je zadnji dan ko bom zapisala voda je Ampak ker ni bilo elektrike seveda ni bilo tople vode. Kljub vsemu mi je hrabrost omogocila da sem si pod malo pipco umila lase ker je bila ze res kriza.Ker je bilo se dokaj zgodaj okoli pol devete ure sem sla malo naokoli s koncnim ciljem Royal Supermarket. Vzela sem s sabo fotic in malo pofotkala zaspane nedeljske Kabale. Zanimiva scena celo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-247290.html Zjutraj se nam je prikazala ne ne Marija no skorajda voda Baje je prisla ze prejsnji vecer ampak ker smo prehitro podlegli tega cudeza nismo docakali. Po ah in oh tusu je sledil na izi zajtrk potem pa so pocasi zaceli kapljati udelezenci. Hudo Ob 10.15 se nas je tako nagnetlo v coffee room kar zajetno stevilo poslusalcev in predavateljic Mankica Marjut Kesse ki sem jo vceraj po http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-245948.html Bad news Mankica je zbolela. Zjutraj ji je bilo slabo kar se je manifestiralo v hrani ki gre v nasprotno smer. Fasala je tudi nekaj vrocine ampak je bilo po oralni seansi mnogo bolje. Tako da je odlezala cel dan in bila do poznega popoldneva ze cisto ok. A s tem tezav se ni bilo konec. Nekaj je crvicilo tudi Aljoso in Pamelo Mihatovo zeno tako da je moralo biti nekaj v zraku ali pac v hran http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-245540.html Mmmmmmmm. Postelja. Mmmmmm. Spali sva do kaksnih pol devetih in se pocasi prebudili v dokaj soncno nedeljo. Neverjetno obema se zdi da sva tukaj ze sto let ker se je zgodilo milijon drobnih in ogromnih stvari v resnici pa sva tu le teden in en dan. Bizarno.Staff se tudi e ni dobro prebudil zato sva prve jutranje trenutke izkoristili za internet. Sledil je zajtrk meni je pripadla palacinka http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-244831.html Zjutraj je bilo spet vse bolj na easy ceprav sem ustala ob 8h in se v jutranjem soncu pogumno podala pod tus. Juhej Spet cistoca. Drugi dan zapored. Je to mogoce Tokrat sem bila pravocasna za zajtrk in konkretno sem se nazrla ananasa in papaje. Nikoli ne ves kdaj jih lahko zmanjka.Zakaj je bilo za naju vse skupaj bolj na easy je razlog v tem da ne greva na canoe trekking ki traja http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-244433.html