We were warmly welcomed back at Banda Inns, in Kampala by Asteria, Stephen and staff and some of the other guests. One couple who were guests, form the US, were in Kampala finalizing adoption arrangements for their 15 month old Ugandan born son, Henry. The next day we hired James and the vehicle again and were up early to go to Entebbe so we could catch a tour boat to Ngamba Island in the massive Lake Victoria. Around 40 rescued orphan chimps are being rehabilit...

Dragging our aching bodies out of our tent, we limped down to the kitchen pavilion at Nyuringo Gorilla Camp for a filling breakfast. All in all, we were pretty much OK, with only a few bruises, scratches (particularly hands from grabbing spike filled vines) and sore muscles as a result of our strenuous gorilla trek the previous day. Robert, our host at the Gorilla Camp, lives part of the year in Switzerland and the rest of the year in Uganda. He is an interesting...

With pounding hearts we quietly eased our way down the last few vine tangled steep banks and there right in front of us was the large silver-back gorilla, Mishaya - just 3 metres away through the thick grass and foliage. He looked quite annoyed that he had company. Our hearts were pounding for 2 reasons. It has taken us an exhausting almost 3 hours of climbing, slipping, sliding and bumping our limbs in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to get to this point, but ou...

Often travel seems like a full time job.There is forward planning and research to be done, and tracking of past expenses and forward budgets. There are photos to be sorted, rotated, deleted.and uploaded. The blog requires hours to upload photos and write about them, and more hours for the story writing. We are also developing a new website of our own www.travelwithless.com.au   while we are travelling, which has links through to our travelpod blog, but will al...

Another country ticked off!!San Marino is actually a country surrounded by Italy. We've been to Italy several times before but not made it to the little Republic of San Marino.It was rather an adventurous journey.After saying goodbye to our French hire car in Nice we hoisted our backpacks and walked some 3 kilometres to the address we had for the Eurolines bus we had booked, to take us to Florence in Italy. Nice, being a rather unsavory sort of place late at ...