Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world with 1860 confirmed species. During my time there I saw a few of them, and this post mostly consists of photos of the ones I was able to capture. A few sunsets and scenes are thrown in for good measure 🙂 My first sighting of the birds below was […]
The Pantanal in Brazil is the largest tropical wetlands in the world. Located in the heart of South America it is home to an amazing variety of wildlife, including many jaguars, giant river otters and other animals that I had only briefly seen before in Costa Rica. It was a long journey to get there involving a coach to London […]
For our second gorilla trek we left our accommodation early in the morning and we had an amazing view of the mist in the valley as we climbed the mountain towards Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. There’s a reason Bwindi Impenetrable Forest has its name and trekking there was extremely physically hard. The terrain meant that we were following in single file […]
One of our activities was to be a trek to observe chimpanzees in the wild. They apparently travel far and fast but we were promised a 99% chance of seeing them. Needless to say, on our 2 hour walk we didn’t 🙁 I recorded our walk and was amused to see that we’d walked a 5k route that looked a […]
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Time off from volunteering saw us going to another National Park, but this time with a variety of animals and no gorillas. On the drive there we stopped by the roadside to photograph Uganda’s national bird – the grey crowned crane. Whilst waiting to get into the park, ‘security’ was keeping a keen eye on everyone. We entered the park […]
Whilst volunteering in Uganda we visited a pygmy tribe to learn about their history and way of life. I initially wondered how they felt about privileged white people descending on them, but the volunteer organisation makes a much needed monetary donation to them which they spend on things such as food, building materials, teachers salaries etc. I would have felt […]
Seeing gorillas in the wild has been on my wish list for a while, and last month I ticked it off. This trek was in Mgahinga National Park and I was quite prepared to possibly trek for up to 6 hours to find them. Fortunately that wasn’t the case and we only had to walk to where they were for […]
I recently spent two weeks in Uganda where I was involved in a volunteering project, but which also included a couple of gorilla treks and a chimpanzee trek. Images from those will follow in other posts, but first of all here are some images from the volunteering part. Our first task was to plant some trees with the Mgahinga Community […]
It’s ridiculous that I have lived nearly my whole life less than an hour away from an “Area Of Outstanding Beauty”, yet had never gone to visit the pretty towns and villages there. Last week I finally planned a route and spent a couple of days exploring Broadway and Broadway Tower, Chipping Campden, Hidcote National Trust, Moreton-in-Marsh, Bourton-on-the-water, Bibury and […]
In a bid to escape the awful English weather I picked up a great deal for a week away in Crete, flying from my local airport 15 minutes away from home. We had 7 days of blue skies, sunshine and only a sprinkling of rain for just a few minutes. We hired a car and explored as much as we […]
