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Published: August 6th 2007
After the National Park we spent a few days travelling through Kenya to the Uganda border. I'm happy to report that crossing the border was fairly uneventful and it did not take long before we were emerced into the green countryside of Uganda.
Here we took a ferry ride on Lake Victoria to Ngamba Island, which is home of to a Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Many Chimps over here are killed for their meat and the babies are often exported as pets, so it was great to see that a safe place had been created to help with there survival. We watched the Chimps having lunch which was highly amusing and then Andreas from our tour accidentally dropped his camera batteries and one of the Chimps made off with an AA battery, trying his hardest to bite it in half. Thankfully the battery was retrieved and we had narrowly avoided injuring the chimps.
The other highlight in Uganda was a spontaneous decision after a few beers at the campsite to hit a Ugandan nightclub. Fair to say it wasn't a nightclub in the sense of what we are used to and it was concerning to see most Eurpean men in their
were with working girls. Never the less more beers were consumed and its fair to say there were some sore heads the next day.
We then headed down to Lake Bunyoni for a night by the water (worth noting Nic has successfully camped for the whole time to date) which was beautiful, prior to crossing the border into Rwanda. Bit of a nightmare initially as they appeared to be making up new entry requirements on the spot, but Tans (our Aussie Tour Leader) was on the case and after an hour or so we were on our way.
Rwanda is a beautiul country and we were forunate to visit the "Genocide Museum" that provided us with a detiled look at the history and slaughter that has recently taken place here.
So it's now Tuesday night and we are getting ready for the trekking with Gorillas tomorrow - Can't wait.
PS - Please continue to send hate mail to Virgin as my bag has still not turned up.
PPS - Remember that when getting up at 5am and pulling down your tent, killer bees are attracted to your headtorch and will sting.
PPPS - 6%
beers at altitude are great.
PPPPS - We will be able to have you all around for dinner as we can now routinely cook for 30 people - fab.
Next Day (21 June)
What an amazing experience. Words can't describe how fantastic trekking with the Mountain Gorillas was yesterday. We trekked in groups of 8 into the Rwandan jungle with two guides and numerous armed guards and after an hour of walking through the intense bamboo terrain, we arrived at a family of Gorillas. At times we were one metre away and we spent an hour with them taking photos, watching the baby Gorillas swing round on the bamboo and generally observing their movements.
There were times when the "silverback" daddy gorilla or older female gorillas would make a quick move and we would all have to scramble out of their path as the guides quickly macheted us some space to get out of their way. As I said I don't think words really capture the experience, but it was something we will never forget.
Sorry for the novel but its woth making the most of Internet when we get it (even if the keys
are all hilgilty pigilty).
Hope all is well with everyone at home
Write again soon
Nic & Al
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Kimi
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What a brilliant camera you have - those photos are just amazing (all my workmates agree). Sounds like you are having a great time. Loving the blog - keep up the good work. miss u guys and be super safe. Kimi