It is our last performance today and our last trek with the gorillas. We get allocated the Sabyinyo family,it has the oldest silverback Guhonda at 46 years of age and two other silverbacks his son now a very strong male and his brother Big Ben with a bald patch on…
Month: March 2017
Rwanda
Volcanoes NP Day 2 Hirwa Family
A 5.30am wake up, off to breakfast and another perfect sunny day. Today we get allocated the Hirwa family , it has 16 members and it’s silverback is called lucky as when it was time for him to leave his family and establish his own, 8 females left with him…
Rwanda
Volcanoes National Park Day 1 Muhoza Family
Three hours from Kigali by road and we arrive to the edge of the Volcanoes National park encompassing the Virunga Massive range. This is the home of the mountain gorillas. The mountains are shared by four countries Rwanda, Uganda , DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Burundi. Despite this being…
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Akagera National Park , Rwanda
We decide to take a day trip to Akagera National Park, this is along the eastern border of Rwanda with Tanzania and it is an approximately 1200km2 park with savannah grasslands. It follows the course of the Akagera river which arises from a spring and has been identified as the…
Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
It takes a full day of travel by the time we leave Warsaw at 6am and arrive in Kigali Rwanda at 7.30pm, journey made very comfortable by the exit seats we manage to snag 🙂 It is dark and flying in over Africa we start seeing sporadic round dots of…
Poland
Family and friends time
The next few days we get to spend in Warsaw enjoying visits with family and friends. It is amazing how quickly my niece’s children are sprouting . It really is a measure of time passing and as my visits here are usually  two to three years apart the changes in…
Poland
Cieszyn, Poland
After a travel day that took us from Kiruna ( snowing and -5) , via Stockholm and Copenhagen we arrive in Warsaw, no snow and +5C. We touch down with a brief catch up with my close high school friend Ewa who is sharing her apartment with us and our…
Sweden
Last day in Sweden,time for reindeers
The previous night gave us a stunning performance of Auroras going into the reds as well as greens. It turns out to be fortuitous timing as I head out in the middle of the night for a pee (outside toilet) and notice the show. André initially reluctant to awake but…
Sweden
Snow Mobile Adventure
After settling into our little cabin we decide to experiment with a new way of getting around for us, when there is so much snow around. Put on the snow shoes. It gives you a broader footprint and so you don’t sink under in deep snow, you don’t go fast…