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Travel Blogs from Gisenyi
Getting pissed with the Pygmies
... the children running up to the van to greet us and then all of a sudden the roundhouse in the middle of the village burst into song and we made our way down to find everyone from the village dancing and singing. We went inside and were invited to dance with everyone and sing and clap along with the music – the beat being set by a woman with a stick and a petrol can.
What unfolded was some incredibly energetic dancing with the main guy actually changing ...
G day
... Park, where all of the jeeps and safari vehicles converged for a short performance of traditional music and dance, and then a briefing where we met our ranger guide, Felix. We then piled into the 4WD for another jarring and jostling drive up the worst dirt road I have ever travelled on, to the starting point of our trek. Each group is assigned to a different family of gorillas, and I should point out that there are strict limitations to the trek: no one who has ...
Country of a thousand hills, tears and smiles
... drummed into us what a wonderful country Rwanda is today. We headed off on a tour of a village where banana beer is produced. We had a private tour of a local market, had local people greeting us and wanting to know more about us. We even boarded a local bus where the locals asked permission from our guide to talk to us, and all we got from the majority of people were a thousand smiles.
Once we reached the bus station, we walked into the hills through ...
Petitbeurreke in the mist
... hij dan ook prompt opzij als hij passeerde.
Zo blijven we de familie een uurtje volgen, dan is het tijd voor afscheid en geven we ze allemaal nog een dikke knuffel (LOL).
Een filmpje om af te sluiten:
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Gorilla beringei beringei
... nettles or if the ants bite you, this will hurt a lot, but don’t scream or run because this bothers the gorillas.” I thought to myself that I knew about the nettles from previous visits, but that I’d never seen any ants up here before.
About 07:45 we regained our vehicles and started out. Both times I have been here before we drove to the mountains to the west, this time we headed east. There are five or six major volcanic mountains in the ...