Only a week left in Africa! Its gone so quickly and I'll be very sad to leave but equally I'm very excited about South America! I went gorilla trekking in Nkuringo, Bwindi National Park, western Uganda at the weekend and the good news is we saw them! I went with two other soft power volunteers and we had a long 15 hour drive from Jinja to Nkuringo on Friday. We left at 6am and arrived at 9.30pm. The roads were terrible and full of pot holes so we were glad to...

Ive been in Uganda now for 11 days, not had a chance to get online yet so here is the latest! Arrived in Kampala a week and a half ago after a very long bus ride! Checked into the backpackers and then had a look around the citywith my friend Louise who I travelled across with. We went to some tombs of ancient kings which were pretty interesting. The descendantsof the kings' many wives still live in the houses by the tombs incase the current king of Buganda ...