Hotel Gorillas Kigali

... time to get to know the awesome Jimmy, we piled into his Landrover and headed to Bourbon. Only an AWESOME café that serves my new favourite, Zucchini bread, on the terrace of the first ever shopping centre of Rwanda, built in 2004.

We were in Kigali only 3 hours but I heard 3 separate people say “after all, this is a new country. We’ve only just begun”. We chatted to Manze, the director of our tour company, (write this down, Thousand ...

Yesterday evening we've been out in a restaurant / pub / lounge mix thingy, cause Anne (Michael's wife) went to her parents in Sambia for two weeks.
It was quit a nice place to eat and have some drinks.
When we went home, we've been stoppend by Anna, cause she wanted to introduce us to the owner, and we had some more drinks.
It was very late, but a beautiful night.

... water just isn’t there, and the water that comes is horribly polluted sometimes. For us, at least, we have the taps, even if they don’t always work, and we can afford to buy the water, even when it is scarce. But the many people around us suffer. It is a suffering that they endure every year when the dry season comes. They know that the rains will return, and how, but when is a matter of some debate. I’ve heard anywhere from ...

You have may have noticed I havent written anything about anywhere for the past week.

I am extremely tired from traveling through 5 countries in less than a week. No sleep last night getting here from Kampala.

All I can say is that Rwanda is by far the ...

... 8211; I’m very happy for them. This will be their first time on safari – and that’s one of the most exciting, enjoyable and educational activites I’ve ever experienced in my life.

The Interet access at the hotel has been down since sometime yesterday and we never did get it back today. I worked on my backlog of office work in the room until early afternoon.

Doc went to the airport to pick up ...

... ended, we started our last camp activity: the fun show. The by feeble light of two small fluorescent bulbs, the campers started by singing a favorite song; the words written by a member, about the coming of the Kingdom of God and the millennial reign of Christ. Some of the girls danced very energetically and very well. Etienne, the MC, brought the house down several time with his jokes in Kinyarwanda. We couldn’t understand the jokes, but couldn’t help ...

... to the food budget and he said he thought we could work that out.

In the afternoon we had more sports activities: Frisbee followed by volleyball and football. When I later asked what the favorite activity was, the universal answer was Frisbee. We laughed (kindly) with one another as the campers and local staff worked on being able to throw and catch the plastic disks. After each activity, the staff would ask the campers to reflect on what they had ...

... as we drove toward the airport, we could see the Kenya Airways plane on final approach and landing. The airport is on top of a hill, so it’s easy to see planes coming and going.

Daniel and Cindy arrived on time, and cleared formalities without any delay. We drove back to the hotel, where they checked in and got some bottled water for the night. We agreed to meet tomorrow morning at 08:00 for breakfast and a planning meeting for the camp which will start tomorrow afternoon.

... of these 2,500 people pilled high on the pews. above at the front of the church is the mother mary statue. She is looking over those clothes, here statue was there when those people were macheted to death, she was there when those women were raped, she was there. These people were not known killers who did this. They were neighbors, friends, business partners, teachers, and members of the church. How can people do such a thing? How can God's people do such a thing?
I am so angry to ...

... dice with death daily in Uganda are fiercely regulated here. Each driver has to carry two helmets and is has a vest with his registration number on it.

Emmanuel "insisted" that I try the three local beers in the evening. Two were the typical pilsener style beers that are everywhere in east Africa but the other was a fusty, flat banana beer thats 14% and you drink through a straw! It was fairly vile to be honest!