Armed with our supplies of textbooks, stationary and soccer balls, today we were visiting Little Angels Orphanage along the shore of Lake Bunyoni. Michael and I were assigned to a classroom jam packed with the younger children, probably around 5years old. They were learning about shapes in English, and any time a student correctly answered a question from the teacher, the whole class clapped 'Well done, well done [name], you are so very good and precious!'After t...

This was the highly anticipated day that we finally got to see wild mountain gorillas. Our permits were all approved and 8 of us would be off before dawn for our 10am trek through Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.However, being rainy season, we soon realised what a problem landslides on the steep mountain roads would be. Upon our first landslide, we eagerly jumped out of van into the chilly mountain air, assuming that we could somehow move all of the mud out of ...

9thToday was a very long driving day taking us from our campsite near the Maasai Mara to a northern Kenyan town named Eldoret. We travelled through all daylight hours. 10thToday was yet another travel day, this time crossing the Ugandan border and arriving in Kampala. 11thThis was our final of three solid days driving. We drove through all daylight hours, and a very carsick Ella was very happy to have arrive in Kabale (near Lake Bunyoni, Uganda) at last. We wou...

We woke early for our game drive through the Maasai Mara. It wasn't long before we veered towards about 4 safari vans intently looking at a bush... which we soon discovered had 9 lion cubs and 2 big mums. The parents had caught a small buffalo calf to give to the cubs to practice their killing skills, but with their little teeth and claws it was more a case of cruely teasing the calf instead of eating it. We stopped for a quite a while before moving onwards to fi...

6thToday marked the end of our own travels. We flew from Maputo to Johanessburg then up to Nairobi where we met our tour group. The tour Ella and I had chosen was 23 days long but there was plenty of other options. The ten others we met were our tour buddies for the next 14 days, four more joined for the gorilla section of the tour. Back in Nairobi after 14 days some left the tour and others joined. Our initial group of twelve had ten girls and two guys both trav...