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...
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...
On the third day of our stay we came across an amazing kill scene. The only death I had ever witnessed, was my father's. He died from cancer only twenty hours later than the birth of my second son. The birth-death sequence was overwhelming and did not allow me to...
After our last visit, I made a promised to myself to return to Serengeti the soonest possible. In Maasai language, Serengit means "endless plains" and this is indeed what it is. A landscape dominated by flat grass land, also known as cheetah-land with a few scattered...
The idea was to spend a week of leisure in Zanzibar. I had read about wildlife safaris and was intrigued with the idea to do it so I started researching. It seemed that the best beach in Zanzibar is in Pongwe and the lodge to stay, the Pongwe Beach Hotel, but the only...
This flight from Ndutu back to Zanzibar was a bit of an unorthodox affair. Think "puddle jumper" meets "scenic detour." Several stops along the way meant a good chunk of time was spent waiting on the tarmac, and as fate would have it, I ended up snagging the...
The journey from Olduvai Gorge to Ndutu was a symphony of jolts and jarring thuds. Every rut in the dusty track seemed to have it in for my lower back, transforming it into a disgruntled game of pachinko. We stumbled into the Ndutu gate just as the sun was bidding...
The Cessna Grand Caravan, a boxy metal bird, rattled us from Zanzibar to Arusha, offering a stark introduction to Africa's untamed interior. Below, a vast and empty canvas stretched out, broken only by the occasional smear of a Masai village, a stark contrast to the...
Well, after a two days of supreme inactivity on the beach, we had a whirlwind tour planned that would take us, amongst other dubious delights, to a spice farm. Now, this spice farm wasn't exactly the Taj Mahal of agricultural experiences. Touristy would be putting it...
We landed in Dar es Salaam at 1:30 am, bleary-eyed from a long flight out of Zurich. Thanks to years of racking up miles on Star Alliance, I'd managed to snag us two business class tickets from Athens to Dar for free. Those lie-flat seats were a lifesaver after that...