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AN INSIGHT INTO GORILLA TRACKING IN UGANDA

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If   you asked anybody what they know about Uganda, the answer will absolutely be the Mountain Gorillas. However many tourists who have visited Uganda have got more than Gorillas. At some point Winston Churchill named Uganda “The Pearl of Africa”. Uganda is one of the few places in Africa that habours the endangered mountain Gorillas.  The Bwindi Forest impenetrable national park about 331sq.kms is a rainforest that hobours half of the remaining Mountain Gorillas. Uganda also shares a group of mountain gorillas with Rwanda in the mghahinga national park on the extreme end south of the country. This group sometimes crosses to Rwanda side and then later comes back. The Bwindi forest national park habours half of the 880 remaining endangered mountain gorillas in the world. Yes, there are wild gorillas and habituated gorillas. Visitors are only allowed to visit the habituated groups in this park. There are Four groups in Uganda and each group has got families. The Buhoma

To The Second Deepest Lake In Africa.

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The boat cruise on lake bunyonyi And yes this place is too cold, the reason its called the the switzerland of Uganda . Lake bunyonyi in a direct translation means “the lake for small birds”. And if you are a bird watcher who actually needs to see these small birds, then this is the right place for you. After a cold night at the shores of this lake and having breakfast we decided to come up with ideas on what we should do before be headed out of this place. We discussed this and I had so many options to give simone and Gadi to choose from the many. This is the advantages that come with car rental or self drive adventures with Auto Rental Uganda . we did narrow to have a boat cruise on the lake. This was a motor boat as compared to the canoe boat that would require us get involved in the movement of the boat.  Gadi and simone decided to take on the motor boat, and actually this motor boat belongs to a local guide who takes you around. At about 9:pm, we boarded the mot

Fitting in the African shoes

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  Simone being the african woman The morning sunrise reflecting in front of the tent was the wake up call, turning yourself because you couldn’t get enough of the sleep is no way you could avoid the colourfull reflections. Had i woken up in the morning and at seeing the beautifull morning sunrise, I couldn’t hold but pullout my camera to shutter that beautifull scene overlooking the park. Hardly had i noticed that Gadi and simone were already up, infact by 6:30am waiting for the sunrise and looking over to the park from the luxury safari tent verander at elevation of 45 degrees. At that angle they could see most of the animals roaming and feeding. All kinds of antelopes, zebras, bucks and hippos in a far distance returning to the waters after a night feeding which they used binoculars to see. The combination of the sunrise and a variety of animals feeding was a good sight seeing start for the day. Ofcourse saying a waving Goodmorning, we had our relaxing time as we enjoy

THE FLEXIBILITY OF TRAVEL AGENCIES EAST AFRICA

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Preparing for a vacation to east Africa takes you an effort. Browsing in so many websites offering almost the same iteneries and packages. It requires time and patience before you finally choose which travel agency to go with. However it is advisable you research on the company you decide to travel with. Yes there are genuine travel agencies so willing to offer you a once in a lifetime vacation and on the same line there are quack companies only interested in making money and not giving you the value for your money, however the respective   governments do a great job in wiping out such quack companies with the help of tourist bodies like the association of tour operators .   Most of the companies offer full packaged iteneries where you need pay all amounts that will cater for all the safari requirements, Safari car, Driver guides, Accomodations, fuel, lunches enroute, and all activities to be done and outlined in the   itenery. It is also advisable to note all the activit