Southern/East African Trip 2019

We arrived at Jacobsen’s Beach, Kigoma around 10h00 so could immediately make arrangements for a boat to Gombe National Park, where Jane Goodhall had done her research on the Chimpanzees. We were by this time a little fitter to do the hills, and enjoyed Gombe tremendously.  We didn't only get to spend an hour with the Chimps, but also hiked to the beautiful Wonder Waterfall in the park. What an old face this baby of a year has! The baby acting the goat :) Bored baby while adults are clutching out and grooming

D ay 53 & 54 - 30 th & 31 st July 2019 From Kirongo we drove south along the lake before heading east for Nyungwe Reserve National Park, Uwinka Campsite which would be our home for the next two nights.   Nyungwe Forest   is renown for hiking and birdlife.   My birding bucket-list on this holiday was to see the Great Blue Turaco and Nyungwe is just about the only place you find it. We were keen to do birding and a monkey trek, but our day turned out to be quite a disaster – instead of back-tracking toward the lake to Giyakuru for the monkey trek, we headed toward Kigali (which we understood was the direction to travel from the people who work at Uwinka).    Thank goodness we were on the road really early to catch the 08h00 tour, because we drove for 45 minutes in the wrong direction before turning back to Uwinka and then going another 30 minutes the other way!   At least we had a good cup of decent coffee at the Nyungwe Eco Lodge before turning back.    When we a