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Kabale Slideshow
Kabale
Travel Blogs from Kabale, Uganda
How to become a gypsy in 3 simple steps
This is a top pick! ... shoes, then proceed to wander barefoot around the dusty roads of Africa. Step 3: Write "gypsy" on your customs entrance form for Uganda. Presto, you are now officially a barefooted gypsy. After customs we made it to Kabale fairly quickly and set up camp. ...
Sabinio - Three countries in one day
This is a top pick! ... and arranged hikes for 2 days of my stay. Tomorrow I'll be going up Sabinio, at just over 12,000ft it intersects the borders with Rwanda, Uganda and Congo, at the summit you are in three countries at once. The guy at the park HQ said this is only one of 3 ...
Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi!
This is a top pick! ... 1 hour with the gorillas to minimize the human impact on them. Anyway, on my Gorillas and Chimps tour through Kenya and Uganda. Trekked in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and as our guide put it: "Penetrated the Bush" to see the ...
Laid up at Lake Bunyonyi
This is a top pick! ... , kingfishers, lilac lilies and locals in their canoes! Bunyonyi is supposedly 6500ft deep and was billed as the deepest lake in Uganda! I paddled out Bushara Island and by the time I got there I was so tired and lethargic I couldn't even muster the ...
Back to Kabale
This is a top pick! ... 11am rolled around and a few sprinkles had fallen I decided to hightail out of that place a day ahead of schedule. Back to Kabale, it seems like a nice town with good humoured people and relatively little hassle. Caught up on e-mail, blog site and popped ...
Rwanda - Visa Issues and the Plastic Bag Police
This is a top pick! ... in Lake Buyouni. I had heard constantly just how beautiful the lake was, and was interested in staying. As the bus approached Kabale, the connecting stop, I decided I would ride it all the way to Kigali. After all, I had spent five months in Uganda, ...
Mountain Gorilla Madness
This is a top pick! ... , we were warned again by another bus porter. Lulled into a false sense of security because of the friendliness we had experienced in Uganda so far, we let our guard down. Most of our bags were with us in our seats, but Michelle put her camera ...
Gorilla gorilla berengei
... out with a tracker in a small group, and track them through the forest. There are 3 family groups that they track in Uganda, with 8 permits available for each group each day. Set off early in the morning with 2 armed rangers, 2 trackers, a ...
Day 28 Gorilla Tracking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Today I was humbled like I have never been humbled before Crouched on the mountain slope in thick forest looking in amazement at a mountain gorilla just 2 metres away, I stared into two eyes that displayed warmth, a bit of curiosity, and ...
Last days in Uganda
When I last blogged we were heading back to Uganda to Lake Bunyoni, a popular chill out spot with travellers in Western Uganda. We had a 4.30am start from Rwanda and got the bus from Kigali to Kabale (near to the lake). We nearly missed the town Kabale ...
Kabale
... waving then suddenly turned nastly and startedf giving us the finger. lovely. we are now at lake bunyoni, just outside of kabale, near the rwandan border, and are here for 5 nights so we can all do the gorilla treks. i will be uplaoding ...
Camp on the lake
Had an early morning start as we had to drive 50km in very mountainous terrain, average altitude is 1900mtrs. The drive took us into some magnificent country through little villages. Unbeknown to us tourism into this area is relatively new thus people ...
The road less travelled
... ; We are back on the road again now and have made a zigzag to the southwestern corner of Uganda. On the way we stopped in Kampala and from there headed up to a crater lake near Fort Portal. It is a beautiful area ...
Matatu Chaos and Island Serenity
... me!). After a rather cramped ride, and a banana purchase along the way (I'm never eating bananas again), we arriving in Kabale, the town just near Lake Bunyoni. We made contact with Christine, who was doing some computer work in the town, ...
Lake Bunyonyi ("Place of many little birds")
... with a lovely camping area, looking out over the lake. Lake Bunyonyi ("Place of many little birds") lies in south western Uganda, between Kisoro and Kabale close to the border with Rwanda. Located at 1962m above sea level, it is about 25 km long and 7 km ...
Lake Bunyonyi - Island Get Away
We celebrated a 3-day weekend by traveling to one of the most beautiful places in Uganda, Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi means "place of little birds." It is in south western Uganda near the border to Rwanda. It is the 2nd deepest ...
Repos
Je reviens dans cette ville. Je pars voir les gorilles le lendemain en louant un taxi. Départ 4H30 du matin. ces derniers jours j'ai enfilé les bus à 6H donc je commence à fatiguer. En effet, je suis aller chercher le permis à la capitale puis ...
gorillas in the mist
We woke up at 5:30 to the sound of rain, and after a hurried breakfast of coffee and toast, packed up quickly and headed to the Park Gate to start my gorilla trek. Many people say it is a once in a lifetime experience, being with mountain gorillas in ...
Gorillas in the mist
We camped by Lake Bunyoni for 4 days. During this time I went for a boat ride on the lake to see all the little islands and communities dotted around. The people all get around in dug out canoes and we saw some packed with people, animals and one that ...
Respite at Lake Bunyoni
... taxi) rides and a long boda boda ride through the most rural Rwandan and Ugandan areas, in order to reach Kabale, a large town in southwestern Uganda. This post will mostly detail some amusing things about rural areas in this region, as well as a short ...
Lake Bunyoni
Busharaf Island is in the middle of Lake Bunyoni so once we got to the lake, the local porters emptied our truck and loaded all our bags and tents onto boats. It took about 15 minutes sailing before we reached the island where we were to camp for the ...
Day 27 (Drive to Bwindi)
T minus 1 for gorilla time...getting excited The drive is stunning, Uganda is an incredibly beautiful country, so green and lush, tea plantations, banana groves everywhere First sight along the way, the 100-odd Maribou Storks we count ...