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...