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May 10th, 2010 | Africa Material seller at the Ugandan border.. Traveling on your own can obviously be a lonely exercise… It is made easier by meeting people who are friendly and who want to assist you where they can… Sure, there are those who are only out to take advantage of you, and being able to identify […] May 5th, 2010 | Africa The ride from Bujumbura to Kigali went off without much ado, except for all the citizens of every village being out in full force, waving election banners representing the various parties they supported… Each village seemed to favour a different party, and at the border I was told that there are over 40 separate parties […] May 4th, 2010 | Africa I was up early this morning, feeling as sick as a parrot… I spent most of the day being ferried around by the hotel driver and Jimmy, one of the managers at the Amohoro Hotel… Jimmy spoke more than passable English, so he had to come along and translate for me… We had to go […] May 2nd, 2010 | Africa While driving back from the Virunga Mountains yesterday, Emmanuel cleared his throat a few times, and then said, “I need to ask you a question…” Expecting another question about the bike or the trip, I leaned back and asked him to go ahead with his question… “Is it true that you are working for the […] May 2nd, 2010 | Africa Emmanuel collected me promptly at 4.00am as promised, driving a Land Cruiser, which was a huge step up from the little sedan he had been driving me around in the day before… It had rained heavily for most of the night, and I was praying that today would be dry… My prayers had not been […] May 1st, 2010 | Africa This unassuming little office controls all Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda… The centre of Kigali has this massive roundabout, tended to by an army of gardeners… After a continental breakfast (bloody French influence again…!) I set about planning all the things I had to get done today… I managed to find an […] |
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