The flight was a fresh change, plenty of room and air conditioning. There was free booze and Karen was excited bout the prospect of tasting wine again, as it had generally been far too expensive since leaving South Africa. Unfortunately the red or white liquid they served up would hardly have classified as wine, it was pretty terrible and Kaz couldn't even bring herself to finish the glass. Strangely our flight flew directly over Arusha and continued another 1/2...

The next morning we made our way on an overcrowded matatu to the overcrowded bus park to catch another overcrowded matatu to the not so crowded Entebbe. The journey was frightful as always, but being jammed in, with our knees around our ears and our backpacks on our laps we thankfully couldn't see the way the maniacal driver was driving, and were held relatively still despite his erratic movements. Obviously the lady behind me thought I had a little too much room...

We had arrived in Kampala central bus station mid afternoon, and our first impression driving through the western suburbs of town was that Kampala would be the s***hole town that reclassified all the s***hole towns we had previously come across in our travels. Hopping off the bus and after composing ourselves momentarily, we made our way to Kampala Backpackers with a similarly maniacal taxi driver. We had chosen the Aussie owned backpackers in the hope of findin...

Bones and Susie had recently decided that Kal would be heading no further North, and thus they would be stripping Uganda from their itinerary. Kaz and I on the other hand had had our hearts set on visiting this equatorial nation for some time and were still keen to experience yet another country and culture. Subsequently we planned to push ahead solo. After climbing the gorillas Bones offered to drop us at the border, and by mid afternoon we'd waved Rwanda go...

Kinigi - GorillasIt was a short 2 hour journey from the centre of Rwanda to the edge of the Parc Nacional des Volcans (Volcanoes National Park). The "land of a thousand hills" certainly lives up to its name, with steep terraced hillsides surrounding the car on all sides. It was impressive to see how the locals had made use of every bit of land available to them, near vertical slopes with plantations clinging to the sides, they would simply be considered...