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Kabale Slideshow
Kabale
Travel Blogs from Kabale, Uganda
Gorillaz
... We set of and after about 45 minutes we entered the bamboo forest. It was really cool to hike up in the beautiful mountains of Uganda in a very unusual sort of forest for all of us foreigners. The lead tracker blazed the trail for us with a large machete. ...
A Tent with a View.
We were a captive customer in Bwindi (where the gorillas are) - to get a taxi to Lake Bunyoni about 60kms away was going to cost us an arm, a leg and the best looking head. We hatched a plan to wait by the side of the road and watch for ...
Relaxing at the lake
... nights I have had! On a side note to the night...I ran into a girl that went to St. George's University with me at the camp site bar. She is currently a pediatrician and volunteering in Uganda for a few weeks...thats just wierd! Enjoy, ...
Traveling to Lake Bunyonyi
... By four o’clock we had reached Kabale and began our 9km ascent and descent to the campsite. The scenery from Kabale to Lake Bunyonyi was simply stunning. Really steep mountains sometimes terraced for cultivating and sometimes completely engulfed by ...
Lake Bunyonyi Day One
A good night's sleep was interrupted by people whistling and shouting at 5.00am. I assumed that this was one of the other seven groups that were at this busy place. Oh well! A cold shower was followed by a magnificent full English breakfast which was an ...
Lake Bunyonyi Day Two
A good night's sleep was interrupted by people whistling and shouting at 5.00am. I assumed that this was one of the other seven groups that were at this busy place. Oh well! A cold shower was followed by a magnificent full English breakfast which was an ...
Thanks Steph ... First of many Speghetti dinners
so this morning we walked to a bunch of supermarkets with Patricia, trying to scope out the best one haha. we got some spaghetti sauce, which is super exciting because we're gonna make spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner, and i can't wait to eat normal ...
Last Day at the Clinic :(
... some genoside memorials and then stay the night and then wednesday we will do some more tourism stuff there and then come back to kabale for the night and then on thursday we leave for kampala. thursday night we stay in kampala and then friday we go to ...
Mission: Get to Kabale!!
... evening and I was back to square one. By now, my towel is more of a reddy colour than the green it began at (the mud in Uganda is red). When I do find the courage to shower, I then have to dry myself with, well, mud. Whether it's worth taking the shower ...
Fishin with Gunga Man
After a couple of days of early starts and heavy travelling, the 3 member posse looked forward to a leisurely day at lake Bunyonyi with a spot of fishing and canoeing. With detailed local knowledge I was first to get the fly fishing equipment out and set ...
Great day at the Clinic
so this morning we went to the clinic...drew some blood, gave injections, mixed drugs etc. it was fun because they were busy and needed our help (which made us feel useful haha) so they just left us to draw blood and give injections when they werent even ...
Funnies thing EVER
so yesterday we were at the clinic, in the radiology room with Adriko, waiting for a patient to come for ultrasound and a mouse ran across the floor...steph screamed haha. so anyway, adriko was like, it's just a rat, we have them everywhere in africa... ...
Outreach....
so this morning we went to the clinic for a bit... got to draw some blood and such. then we went with martin and some other workers to the outreach stuff... it was different than i expected.. the group we went to today, meets with members of KIHEFO ...
The lake in the mountains
Our 4.30am start was a bit painful after two hours sleep. Luckily we didn't have much to do and slept most of the way to Lake Bunyoni. This picturesque lake is high in the mountains and is 6500 feet deep. Joe braved a quick swim in the cool water; it ...
Diane Fossey eat your heart out!
... to see the rare mountain Gorillas. Which for me is a highlight of this trip. After arriving at our campsite on the outskirts of Kabale a little place called Lake Bunyoni and a quick deep in Africa's deepest lake at nearly 6500 feet deep its off for a an ...
Lake life and African Canoes
... without any Ugandan currency, so we did exchange a little and got back on the bus for the rest of our journey. We arrived in Kabale, a small town near the Lake. Took a taxi with a lovely guy named Emanuel. We stayed in a small cottage on the ...
Gorillas in the Mist
... we waited for our Gorilla Trekking certificates. Once done, we piled back into our taxi for our lunch drive back. We were back in Kabale by 2pm to be told that the road was still too dicey and that the truck would not be carrying on to Lake Bunyoni and ...
Gorillas in My Midst
... came for the gorillas you're going to get 'em, by God!!! Off in the corner of East Africa where the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda meet is the world's last habitat for the Eastern Mountain Gorilla. In fact, it the only place you can see them. ...
Gorilla's
Well since the last time we wrote we have been fairly active. On Friday morning our tour group all got on a mini van and with "The Power of God" (it was the sticker on the front windscreen) we drove towards Bwindi which is the village that we would ...
Row row row the boat
... we set foot on land it stopped raining!! What an adventure, we were so close to taking an unvoluntary swim... After 2 weeks in Uganda HelMan decided that it is time to move on... which also meant to leave our new Israeli friends behind. Thanks guys for ...
Early morning motorcycling....
... am, but we flagged some guys down after not too long. Africa certainly gets up early. We had a reasonably pleasant ride to Kabale, with only a few money changing hassles at the border. First we had to negotiate a decent rate and had completed a ...
It sounds like an Italian town...but it's not...
... cut my right great toe -- but I'll survive. I managed to get some money out of my Canadian account today while in Kabale (the closest town) but I couldn't change it into USD. It took me 45 min to get 500 000 Ugandan shilling and 2 bottles ...
In Kabale
... This morning we went and exchanged our money and then met the doctor and his wife in Kampala, and then we followed each other to Kabale. We stopped at the equator, how cool! We got a quick drink and some food, MOUNTAIN DEW (how exciting) and french ...
Chilling out in Lake Bunyonyi
We had a well earned sleep in today although only to just after 9 but it was great to have a decent nights sleep instead of having to get up at 6. We were though woken several times in the night by heavy rain which got us worried that we might be stuck ...
Kabale
What’s Up Machigga!
Kabale is a major center. 50,000 pop. 430km from the Capitol Kampala and 30km from Rwanda border. Known for its access to nearby National Parks and tracking the endangered Mountain Gorillas and beautiful Lake Bunyoni. Shared info and ...
Kabale and the bus journey
... 18,000USh for ensuite room), where I had a buffet vege meal of beans and rice and potatoes and veg for 2500USH/70p!! lovely. Kabale itself is a one street town - a stopping point before moving to other places really. At least there are the basics of ...