We had spent a hot night at the Semuliki NP campsite, which was at a lovely clearing in the forest. The day we arrived and also the night was very hot, but the next morning it was overcast, raining and much cooler again. Instead of a 3 hours hike for bird watching, we decided to …
From our base at the lovely Kluges Guest Farm, south of Fort Portal, we made a couple of trips to the surrounding area. First we went through the Kibale NP to Bigodi, where we explored the swamps. The next day, we drove past Fort Portal in direction of Semuliki, where we reached Lake Albert. In …
As we are coming closer to the main rainy season in East Africa, starting at the end of March, and our tyres are really “end of life cycle” after about 45.000 km, we decided to invest in a new set of BF Goodrich AT. Over the iOverlander app, we found Beate and Robert (ondjila-travel.com) in …
We had heard that the best (and cheapest) place to track Chimpanzees in Uganda is the Kalinzu Forest Reserve, which is just a short drive from Queen Elisabeth NP. We went to the “Visitor Centre” the day before and camped there, with a good ablutions block available. The next morning at 7.30 am we met …
Driving through the Queen Elisabeth NP, we reached Edi’s lake. Lake Edward lies in the Albertine Rift, at the border of Uganda and DR Congo. We headed to Katwe, which is a village at the lake and inside the national park, living poorly on fishing and salt mining. The natural Kazinga Channel connects Lake George …
From Lake Bunyonyi, we drove through the impenetrable forest to Ruhija, were we asked at the visitor centre of the Bwindi National Park for a gorilla tracking the next morning. It was no problem, we only had to show up the next morning. We first got a little entertainment from the local village with singing …
After our tour through Rwanda, we reached another fascinating country: Uganda. The border crossing was in general unspectacular, just that we were asked if we have a drone, and we didn’t dare to lie and say no. They had a problem with that, and in the end, we had to leave the drone at the …
When we arrived in the North of Rwanda, where a couple of volcanos along the border to DR Congo and Uganda are part of the Volcanos NP, we first saw nothing, as the clouds were hanging very low. But the next day, when we drove up to Kinigi to visit the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, …
At the Pfunda Tea Farm, in the north of Lake Kivu, we went on a tour to learn more about tea farming and production. The first part, was to visit the tea plantation of the Pfunda Cooperative. 2000 farmers have their farms in this area and sell their harvest to the Pfunda Tea Factory, which …
