, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

Uganda. Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

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 bit like Africa with an extra stuck on the top!)

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

Early on in the trek we saw some baboons and black & white colobus monkeys.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

Later that afternoon we heard that the chimpanzees had been spotted very close to the ranger station where we had started and ended our walk, so it was arranged that we could go back early next morning before leaving the area.  The rangers went out early to track them, and sure enough after only 15 minutes we found them high up in a fig tree.  When I write ‘high up’, they were REALLY high up, and our necks were nearly breaking looking at them.  It was great to see them though and the young one below was amusing itself playing with a stick.  He (or she)  looks like a child pretending to shoot somebody!  I was glad of my long zoom lens on my camera but they were really difficult to photograph as they were often hidden in the leaves and constantly on the move.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

Below are a couple of photos taken out of the vehicle window as we passed by.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

This is early morning in the main street in Kisoro, not far from where our volunteer accommodation was based.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

Another of our volunteering mornings involved taking the children from the special needs school for a walk in the national park.  It was a chance for them to get out in nature and learn a little about conservation.

, Uganda.  Chimpanzee Treks, local life, and children.

 

 

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