by eliasc64 | Feb 8, 2013 | Africa, Destinations, Tanzania Uganda 2013 trip, Uganda
Kampala, the capital of Uganda is your typical sub-saharan capital. Unpaved roads – even in the very center of the town, tons of people, little stores and open markets, creative ways for public transportation, building anarchy and a city center with some...
by eliasc64 | Feb 7, 2013 | Africa, Destinations, Tanzania Uganda 2013 trip, Uganda
The next day we had scheduled a visit to the forest, where the Batwa pygmies used to live. The Batwa people were pushed out of the forest when the gorilla tourism picked up. A hunter-gatherer tribe, they never learned the merits of agriculture or livestock breeding....
by eliasc64 | Feb 6, 2013 | Africa, Destinations, Tanzania Uganda 2013 trip, Uganda
On the way to find the gorillas, we crossed a local village and a bunch of four kids playing. They enjoyed to have their pictures taken and were ecstatic to see them on the LCD of my camera. Torn clothes, no shoes, dirty but seemingly happy, it makes you wonder about...
by eliasc64 | Feb 6, 2013 | Africa, Destinations, Tanzania Uganda 2013 trip, Uganda
The main reason why we chose to visit Uganda was not other than the famous mountain gorillas. The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park hosts one for the two populations of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). The other population lives within three national...
by eliasc64 | Feb 4, 2013 | Destinations, Tanzania Uganda 2013 trip, Uganda
Our guide Enock, picked us up form the hotel in Entebbe at 8am. We drove form Entebbe to Kampala and then to Kibale forest. A long drive, but quite nice as we got the opportunity to see the countryside of Uganda. We arrived in the afternoon in Ndali Lodge, a very...
