Nairobi to London

Woke early again but at least it was a little cooler than the night before. We watched the news for a while whilst gathering ourselves and heard about the bomb and shootings in Norway). We then got up, showered, packed and grabbed our last bits and bobs. We went down…

Ruhengeri to Kigali

Woke early as per usual and sorted our stuff. We met the team for breakfast and then set off for Kigali which didn’t take long even with a pit-stop in town to visit the hotel where Hotel Rwanda was filmed. I wouldn’t have recognised it to be honest…

Ruhergeri and gorilla trekking

Woke before the alarm and got ready for our day of adventure ahead! We had breakfast and made a packed lunch and then set off to the gorilla research and veterinary centre. When we arrived there was a welcome of tribal dancing and music, they were brilliant. Then we had…

Lake Bunyoni to Ruhergeri, Rwanda

After packing and breakfasting we headed, pretty swiftly, out of the campsite as we had blocked the entrance for the two pink Swedish adventure buses. Our journey took us from dirt tracks in beautiful surroundings to tarmac, to dirt tracks along the mountainside with sheer drops, finally to tarmac again.…

Lake Bunyoni

Awoke just before dawn but snoozed a little longer which was nice. However, it wasn’t much longer as we were rudely woken by the cacawing of black and white ravens. They were huge and so noisy! We wondered down to the truck for breakfast and then met Duncan from…