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Day 7: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest – Gorilla Trek
So here’s the thing about trekking through a place like Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see gorillas in their natural habitat: it is neither as glamorous nor as predictable as the phrase “gorilla trekking” might suggest. There’s an inherent contradiction in everything—the collision between your romanticized idea [...]
Day 6: Fort Portal – Kisoro – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
Day Six started in the blurred watercolour of dawn at Fort Portal, where dew clung to everything like nature’s way of reminding you that, yes, you’re still alive, and no, you can’t go back to bed. Fort Portal has that rare combination of feeling quaintly forgotten by time while simultaneously reminding you [...]
Day 5: Fort Portal – Kibale National Park – ‘Crater Lakes’ Trek – Chimpanzees Trek – Fort Portal
Day Five in Uganda unfolds with the kind of damp enthusiasm you’d expect from a morning that has decided to drape itself in a shroud of lingering mist. Fort Portal, with its modest urban sprawl and somewhat unremarkable streets, serves as our launching pad for a day that promises geographical and existential exploration. Our [...]
Day 4: Murchison Falls National Park – Waseko – Fort Portal
Day Four in Uganda begins under the most unremarkable circumstances. This rainy, overcast morning promises a protracted, grey-hued slog from Murchison Falls National Park to Fort Portal. The weather, which could be described as “miserable” with the precision that only meteorologists and those caught in a relentless [...]
Day 3: Murchison Falls National Park Game Drive
Day Three in Uganda dawns with the kind of indifferent brightness that suggests the natural world is entirely unconcerned with human conceptions of urgency or time. It is the sort of morning where the sunlight filters through the trees in a way that seems almost deliberately picturesque, as though nature indulges in some [...]