Executive Airport Hotel Entebbe

... Neighbors turned upon neighbors, friends upon friends, even family members against members of their own families. It was an organized, systematic, coordinated campaign of extermination that, to our everlasting shame, the nations of the world simply stood by and did nothing to stop.<br><br> It is difficult to describe the impact of this place. Clearly presented exhibits and videos explain the history from the artificial division of the Rwandans into these ...

... And I tell you, they did not make it easy on those kids, who were less than half their size! But those kids were good. At first, they were a wee bit too eager, which resulted in them being too unorganised, but then, after the first goal, they relaxed, took it easy and played well. But they were still in it to win it; so in the end, Head-teacher Sam (not the same guy I went to the MoE with) was limping and had a bandage around his thump. And the students won ...

It was a tiring journey after stopping in Dubai, but flying down to Entebbe after stopping of at Adi Dibbas in Ethiopia was an experience i will never forget. You really know you're not in western world anymore. After sitting next another traveller on the plane next to me we noticed the lush scenery of pure greenery and the dirt tracks and 'Booda booda, (which are motorbikes) we knew we were ...

... lowest rank females are introduced, the infant is then introduced to other ranked chimpanzees until finally it is introduced to the alpha male. I can't give you a time estimate, as to how long this actually takes, as it is different with each individual, but there are hopes that Africa (the youngster) will be integrated by the end of this year. We observed the chimpanzees coming in for the evening. As they arrive, they are grouped into pens based on rank. This helps ease the evening ...

I forgot to mention two interesting tidbits about our school visit, so I am going to start with that. The first takes us back to the Head teachers office before our visit into the actual school classrooms. Posted on the wall, on a piece of chart paper, was the monthly operating budget for the month of February, the breakdown as follows: Instructional Materials: 220,000 Co-Curricular Activities: 30,000 Management: 20,000 Administration: 30,000 Others: Total: 300 ...

... down in LHR the next day. Everyone was still in a reflective mood after a truly awesome holiday and an exhilarating and non stop adventure, and there was a certain sadness in the air as we all realised that our trip in Uganda was about to come to an end. <br><br>There were many highlights to this trip including the game drives, gorilla trekking, camping, people, food and lots of amazing experiences with such a great bunch of people and many laughs along the way. <br><br>

... lately too. I was sad that one tiny boy started crying when he saw us, he was scared and could not have seen white people before, but we waved and he managed a small smile. The poverty here is heart breaking, but thankfully we have not seen signs of hunger, but very poor living conditions. It is wretched really. But evreyone seems happy, as Heather has said, they have music, dancing and Jesus and they live simply and are happy. Tomorrow we are off to jinja, where we will stay at a ...

... our trek. After talking to the rangers and going over the rules of the trek (like if a 500 pound Silverback gorilla charges you, don&#8217;t run!), we broke into our groups and took a van for about an hour to our starting point. We only had one other couple, an older couple from Scotland with us and we were set up to trek to the largest of the gorilla groups, the &#8220; Habinyanja&#8221; family, which consisted of 18 members including several babies. Our ...

... Impenetrable National Park to see the gorillas so we need to hike in the mountains from 30 mins to 8 hours depending on where they are located and will be really dirty. I think when we get back to Nairobi we'll need to find a laundromat or pay someone to wash our clothes because we will be so dirty. There are only 700 mountain gorillas left in the world and half of them live in the park where we are ...

... tourists and was notorious for robberies. Mamma Lucy was packing to leave for when I got back and she invited me to come to her house in the village and go down past the equator. Stopped for photos at the monument but the people doing the old water experiment had given up for the night. We then drove right out into the bush for a good hour until we reached Mamma Lucy's place - at one point we were ...