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Lake Kivu Gisenyi, Rwanda
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Goma, The Frontier of Congo
... staging ground for the rebel armies during the 1990s. Today, it is mainly populated by locals, NGO aid workers and UN officials and much of its infrastructure was destroyed by a 6.8 earthquake in 2005. The locals still fish on Lake Tanganyika which is the second largest of the African Great Lakes and very, very deep. It had little to offer as it was hot and dry. The only excitement for me was a trio of pied crows in formal wear.
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Going Ape
... had previously briefed us that about 100m away from the gorillas we would hand our bags over to them and only approach the gorillas with cameras. This did not happen.... We had only just caught up with the trackers when the guides suddenly pointed up a steep bank to our right and there, up the slope, only about 30 ft away, was an absolutely massive Silverback! The first feeling was one of absolute awe, but this quickly changed to absolute fear for some of us when we realised ...
Bat Cave and Pygmy Village
... the bats. All clustered together, I could see about 20 pairs of shining red eyes staring down at me from the ceiling. I told Alex. I soon realised my mistake in this, as he looked up towards the spot where my torch was shining, so did his headtorch, which was considerably brighter than mine. In 2 seconds, hundreds of bats were freaking out and pouring out of the hole in the ceiling, reminding me of the matrix when the centennials pour in to destroy Zion.
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Not gorillas
... so rich as to travel across the world and afford gorilla teking can be so weak and feeble. Although some aspects of their lives are much healthier than mine. But they have to do physical labour until they are yold - and then who knows, there are not many really old people around to define the next stage. The group of women were a mixture of married and single, but mainly without significant men - some never had them, ...
Gorillas!
So, with a 6am departure (which seems characteristic of any trip I arrange) we got in our prearranged 4x4 and headed up to Volcanoes National Parc. Our driver took our tickets (well actually Bandit anf Griffen´s) and swapped them for the passes we needed. Some slight of hand going on here as other people appeared to need passports to prove identity.....
We were assigned the Agashya group, and with 6 others were driven to our trek start- The good news ...



