We left at 7:30am to visit the Ranomafana rain forest park, about 6km from our hotel. We did a four hour trek, through dense vegetation and steep ascents and descents. It was very humid and the weight of my photo bag made the trek a challenging task. We saw in total 6...
We had an early morning start and followed RN7 for 350km to Fianarantsoa and then to Ranomafana. The landscape is mostly sub-dessert for the first 80km and then it changes when we approach Ihosy, the capital of the Bara people's region. It is very poor everywhere....
We left early to the Isalo NP main entrance, a short 15 min drive from the lodge. The road connecting RN7 to the park entrance is in terrible condition. Now, I did not expect a paved road, but neither to cross a deep river in the peak of the dry season, nor to...
Next day we woke up at 5:30am to get the 8:30 flight to Tulear, via Fort Dophin. Despite the fact that Air Madagascar has a horrible reputation with delays, in our case the flight was on time. The ride to the airport was magical as the heavy fog had engulfed the town....
It was cheaper to get two different tickets, Athens to Nairobi and then Nairobi to Antananarivo, instead of booking a round trip flight from Athens to Antananarivo through Paris and endure a 12hr leg. And as a bonus, I would be able to stop over Nairobi on the way...
The 2011 trip to Tanzania was a life changing experience. I traveled extensively in many parts of the world but I had never been in Africa. Tanzania's culture, nature and wildlife are very interesting and radically different from anything I had ever seen and opened...
What drove us to Jinja was the promise for adventure. Victoria lake is considered by many as the source of the Nile and the area is known for its rough waters, ideal for white water rafting. [gallery royalslider=1 name="1" style="width:100%" type="rectangular"...
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 high-rise...
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....
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...