Blogs from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Western Region, Uganda, Africa - page 6

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

Scrawled while making the journey from Kabale to Buhoma (at Bwindi Impentrable Forest National Park) Hills quilted in a patchwork of greens and browns by terraced crops. If I could find the quilt's corner I would be tempted to pull at it, creating new folds of land and revealing what lay underneath this blanket. Nature harnessed, stitched and restitched communally by countless people across the land and through generations. Is the earth warmed by it, or suffocated? I think the latter - the quilt is pinned down firmly and trapped nature denied freedom. Kids on the side of the road, wearing dirty bodies and ragged clothes, filthy and torn. Hands outstretched, demanding money. Our socioeconomic differences evident in our absence of their accumulation of dirt, snot and malnourished pot bellies; in the completeness of our clothes; ... read more

Officially crossed over into Uganda. It is all green jungle here and very beautiful. The earth is rich and red and any seed that hits the ground is going to sprout. Our first stop was in Jinja where we stayed 3 nights in the dorm rooms at a really nice backpackers lodge. Our first day here most of the gang from our overland truck went rafting on the Nile. Since we had already done the Zambezi, which is the toughest rafting in Africa, we opted out of rafting. Instead we walked over to the source of the Nile (one of them), where Lake Victoria feeds into the White Nile. It was a little anti-climatic, but the country side is so beautiful here. Walking over to the park we passed all these mansions that are in the ... read more

Jan 24 Day 9  Today we headed for Bwindi impenitrable rain forest to see the gorilas after a delicois breaky provided by the camp of course. It was a 45 min drive or so to the entrance point. Once we arrived they signed us in with the permits and gave us a briefing then we were on our way for our trek. Before we left we took bets on how long it would take us to get to the gorillas.  Although the trek was super wet, muddy and steep I througly enjoyed it. We were hopping from patch of brush to rocks to brush to whatever to avoid the stream of water in the path. It eventually dried up the higher we got. We hiked up 2 ridges before we heard word from the trackers.  The way ... read more

ENGLISH Sadly things have taken a turn for the worst. We've not eaten in days and are sleeping on the streets. We've had to turn our skills to street crime just to get by........ Hehehehe, only joking. After our bus ride to Kampala we woke up at Red Chili Hideaway to very heavy rain. We got dressed and went to have breakfast. The place wasn't that friendly so we decided to move and find somewhere else. We packed and took a taxi to UWA (Ugandan Wildlife Authority) to buy permits to see the Gorillas. $1000 later, we booked a 1 hour visit with Mummy and Daddy Gorilla on 22nd September. BOSH! With our rucksacks on our back, we mounted a boda boda each (125cc motorcycle). It was definitely the cheapest and the most exciting way of ... read more