Category: Travel

Happy Birthday Mary. Gorillas-Bwindi Impenetrable NP. Happy birthday to Mary today.  We kicked off with breaky and our packed lunches. We needed passport copies, got our walking sticks and water and met Ivan again. Loaded up in the van and headed up the hill again to the World Heritage listed Bwindi Impenetrable NP entrance and…

Ride 4 a Woman 18 AprilGood Friday today. Same start to the day. Over for breakfast at 8 followed by a shorter shake off at 9.We saw a few people carrying their crosses and singing down the street after breakfast. We were then wrangled for our weaving experience. Each of us allocated one of the…

Buhoma Village, Bwindi. I awoke early and did some blog and caught the first light.  Went for a walk up the street before the others ventured out. Back to the house to meet the others. Over to dining area for a cuppa before Ride 4 a Woman “shake off.” Shake off. This is a morning…

Entebbe to Buhoma Village, Bwindi area via Kisoro The weather here in Entebbe has been kind. This morning at 3am  I awoke to pouring rain and a little thunder. I think it’s been steadily raining since.  Breaky at 5:45. Pick up at 6:40.  Out to airport following a short detour to collect a forgotten camera…

To Kampala Late pick up this morning. 10am allows some time to phaff with the 900+ photos from yesterday. All safely backed up twice and I’ve tried to select for the blog. We loaded up bound for Kampala.Before we had gone far we saw a group of Marabou Storks sunbasking. Everywhere you look there are…

Entebbe Breakfast at Boma – served by Anna who served us tea last night. Then ready for Wilson to pick us up at 7:30.  We had some final finances to finalise with Wilson so he could bank it before leaving Entebbe.  Wilson, our guide was born and grew up in a small village near the…

Dubai to Entebbe We leave today for Entebbe. Breaky at 6:30 and cab to Dubai airport at 7:00. Mary and Phil got rejected at Smart Gate and redirected to Immigration control and then passport control. I sailed through Smart Gate and through security to wait on the other side. A tad disconcerting when I lost…

Dubai Today’s activity is an Old City Walking tour with ‘Walks of Dubai.’ On the way we passed the Dubai Frame again. Been hard to get a decent shot. Our guide Hamza met the group (of 16) at The Heritage hotel in the old city at 9:30. We arrived early and had a bit of…

Dubai Awoke to some sun rays over neighbouring construction site. Today is my actual 60th birthday and we headed out for our Desert Conservation tour, with a 7am pick up, after a quick pre road trip breakfast in the hotel. This tour was gifted to me by ‘The camping crew’ so huge thanks to them…