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 …
Some infos from Rwanda for our fellow travellers: Border: we came from Tanzania, which was the best border up to now, with just one stop and everything straight forward. We left to Uganda over the small border at Cyanika, which went also without any problem, just that the Ugandan side confiscated our drone. When we …
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 …
