Okapi Hotel

... 3,000 and 7,000 pounds! Christen really liked the hippo. -    Met the giraffe’s only living relative, the okapi. Please see our picture. -    Learned that the reindeer is the same thing as the caribou. And that both ...

... in Kampala this summer (top secret!) and checked out of our hotel. We hopped on some motorcycles (with helmets) and whizzed off to Okapi bus, but ended up at Hotel Okapi and had to be re-routed to the appropriate location. It turned out all the buses until ...

... the area or the crossing. We were lead to believe that Ngara was a 6 hour trip from the border. We walked over to the Okapi bus depot to find the bus to Rusumo Falls [the border post town] left at 9am. In an experimental pre-enactment of the seating ...

... , with one company owning several mini vans next to a little office, and published leaving times (which were surprisingly accurate!) Okapi cars had the monopoly on the trip to Ruhengeri. The village closest to the mountains which we were going to use as ...

... pictures and video.  There was a giraffe that was taking food from it's trough on top of the trees and then feeding it to an Okapi, it was the cutest thing!  When we were done looking at the animals we headed back inside and went over to a side elevator.  We ...