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 […]
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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 […]