Welcome to the jungle…!
There are 3 places where you can see the last mountain gorillas on earth – Uganda, Rwanda and DRC (Congo).
Uganda and Rwanda are excellent places and each cost (as of now) $500US for the park fees (more if you book through a tour).
There are several families of mountain gorilla and [...]
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From Kenya we reached Jinja in Uganda a few days later. Jinja is trying to be known as the “Adventure capital of East Africa”. Well I am not sure yet if they will reach their goal but we sure had our great share of action there!
Persephone and I started off well by [...]
After Tanzania, we headed to Nairobi to meet an important deadline, just quickly stopping in a popular rest stop.
Persephone was finally coming to join me!
She would stay for a few weeks and we will be heading to Uganda/Rwanda/DRC together. Sooo excited.
We also had to take care of some “important” errants.
Fixing the SLR camera that [...]
I just came back from Kigali. I won’t be talking about genocide in this posting…but about one of my favorite passions – car rally!!!!
I was lucky to be in Kigali last weekend for the Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally 2009.
Here are some links:
http://www.africanrallychampionship.com/
http://www.racrallyrwanda.com/
Rwanda is an amazing place to hold a rally. Lot of mountain [...]