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Mzungu in the Mist
... the population is in full swing with many schools opening and free education for 9 years of schooling (expanding to 12 years soon). The road we travelled will be tarred by 2017, and the work that is being done on that is led by the Chinese as an Aid Program. .
Gorilla Mountain View Lodge is one of the best places we have stayed. Even though there was no internet (who needs it really), and generator power was only available for ...
Gorilla beringei beringei
Jim and I were up at 03:30 to be ready to roll at 04:00. And just after that time an older Toyota Prado 4WD rolled up, with a driver sitting on the right side of the vehicle, and the Mundelis in the back seat ready for our gorilla expedition. This outing would give us more time to fellowship with and for our church president to get to know our elder and his wife in Rwanda. Personal working relationships are of course important for co-workers and this visit to Rwanda is the ...
Gorillas in the Mist
... Our gorilla group was the Umubano group, which luckily had a few babies recently! Art and I were hoping for a longer hike, but the Umubano group was fairly close, about a 45 minute hike. This turned out to be quite a blessing as the hills were very steep, the jungle quite dense, the mud thick, and there were plants that when touched creating ...
The end, Kivu, Wings
... two small bottles in Nairobi from the thieves at the gate scanner, where I had to once again unpack and repack my bags to remove the laptops), and who gave a good handshake and smile and wished me a good life when we got off the plane.
In Nairobi I only had an hour but used it well to buy some duty free wine, dark chocolate, and a book (Wild Child and other stories by T.C. Boyle). After getting my two small bottles of wine stolen, I continued to the gate ...
Tea and Beans
... into the dramatic hills, passing by maize, banana, and potato farms, highly terraced slopes, and a number of small towns until we were deep into undeveloped African country. The quality of the roads was unexpectedly good and there was very little traffic, allowing our driver to snake around the switchbacks with ease…certainly not a ride for anyone who is prone to motion sickness. The main occupants of the road were walkers and bicyclers (not recreational biking), who ...
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