LAKE KIVU AND KIGALI After seeing the gorillas we drove to Lake Kivu on the west of Rwanda for a relaxing couple of days. We stayed in a lovely lodge in Gisenyi - right on the edge of the most beautiful lake with Rwandan fishermen rowing past in their dugout canoes. Rwanda is incomparably beautiful, however recent history of violence can make any visit a little uneasy. It is hard to imagine how this paradise could harbour such a violent and disturbing past...

Seeing the mountain gorillas, made famous by Diane Fossey's book and film Gorrillas in the Mist, was one of the things we were most looking forward to on our trip. However, we didn't have a booking as we did not know when we would arrive in Rwanda. Only thirty people a day are able to spend one hour with the gorillas. Tour operators book places for their clients up to two years in advance so it was a risk just turning up and hoping to get a place. Luckily, it ...

From Nairobi we headed west via Nakuru and Eldoret to the Ugandan border. We were in fact re-tracing our steps from a couple of weeks ago so went back to the Roving Rovers team for yet more work on Biggles - once again they were great. Bosey and the Roving Rovers team set about fixing our back right shock absorber housing, checking our wheel bearings, replacing our second battery and coming up with creative ways to fix our top cargo nets and store our...