Going Bananas! In Uganda they love bananas. I have now managed to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner and snack inbetween. They have plantain bananas here that they called matokewhich are surprisingly good. Breakfast was small chewy banana pancakes, given to me by the friendly bus driver, lunch roasted bananas and dinner; mashed bananas with vegetable stew (tasted much better than it sounds!) I have also had them boiled, which again they are surprisingly go...

How to penetrate an impenetrable forest Combine 2 days travel with a non existant bus, 5 hours at a bus station waiting for the driver to have a sleep, a pickup truck with a very expensive wildlife permit. Mix this with an impenetrable forest sprinkled with 300 endangered mountain gorillas and finally add a little bit of rainy season and you have all you need to have a brilliant adventure! I've always been told I have no willpower and true to form it took just ...