Category: Africa
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We left the primate lodge at 8am and started our drive to the Queen Elizabeth park. We passed through the gorgeous mountains with fields of coffee, tea and cocoa. Queen Elizabeth National Park is Uganda’s most popular and biodiverse safari destination, with breathtaking landscapes, so much wildlife, and little towns scattered throughout. Straddling the equator,…
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What an incredible day! Woke up at the crack of dawn – had a delicious breakfast. Then down the hill to the chimp trekking orientation. There were quite a few groups but we split up and were all off pretty quickly. There were only 8 of us in each group – so that was nice…
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We left Entebbe at 8am in the morning for the long drive to Kibale! We had planned on sitting back with music and audiobooks but were so absorbed by the villages and countryside we passed, the 6 hours flew by. It was a very red dusty and bumpy ride- but just incredible to watch this…
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We managed to get a good nights sleep – hopefully we have conquered the jet lag! Up early as we were heading to lake Victoria for a ride out to the Mabamba bay marshes. Now a quick note- I was not sure that I could navigate this trip on my own. The language barrier and…
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Well we have arrived in the Pearl of Africa – Uganda! We left YVR on Feb 9th – flew the 12 hours to Istanbul on Turkish Airlines. I was lucky enough to have the entire row of seats to myself so I slept like a dog by the fire- all curled up! We had a…
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Thursday and we had planned a trip to Robben Island, but Wednesday was a rainy horrible day so all trips to the island were cancelled, this meant that we couldn’t get tickets as all sailing were sold out today! Plan B was the hop on hop off bus. There are 3 different tours in CT,…
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As promised the rain was here Tuesday- it wasn’t horrible, but enough for us to don the raincoats and head out. First stop Bokaap, this Colourful area was one I had to explore- we tried the museum but it was cash only and as we needed to find a bank machine we gave it a…
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Monday we knew the sun would be around for one more day- it seemed the day to head to the point. We were waylaid a little as Frank had to go to the local walk in clinic as he has some find of infection in his foot- the doc was awesome gave him and antibiotic…
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Sunday dawned another beautiful Sunny Cape day. We looked to the Table mountain and saw that she was clear- no clouds meant it was a perfect day to head up. we had a bit of a late start but were up ther hill by about 11. We pulled into the lower lot to catch the…
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Saturday we were treated with the most brilliant sunrise- thank you rain for staying away. We wanted an early start to the day. When we woke the girls Delaney was horrified to see a cricket had spent the night in her bed. Packed and down to the main house we had breakfast again at the…
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