Category Archives: Africa Back in Kenya, but not for long. Armed with Ethiopian and Sudanese visas (that weren’t so easy to get!) we’re headed North folks! Well, north, then east, then north again, then west, west, west! Read on for details of our travel plans as well as practical visa info for Ethiopia and Sudan.  After seven-and-a-half months traveling overland through East Africa, it’s safe to say it wasn’t my favorite region of Africa. Too expensive, too overcrowded, too polluted. But even though I didn’t love East Africa, I’m happy I went. Travel isn’t about loving everything you see and do and every place you visit. It’s about venturing forth and checking the world out. Go, I say. Always go.  Seven months, seven countries, some 10,000km. With our return to Kampala, our East African Loop – otherwise known as the Extended Honeymoon Loop – was completed. We’d looped the loop. A mixture of deja-vu, transit travel, and self-reflection would be the theme of our onward travel to Nairobi.  Poo-ganda. That’s what Bruno and I have been calling it since we left last December. And that’s probably why both of us had a tiny knot vibrating in our stomachs as we prepared to cross back into Uganda. Would our second try in one of East Africa’s most beloved countries prove more successful than our first?  Dian Fossey is one of the most famous names in primate study, and she conducted her research right here in Northern Rwanda. Even though we couldn’t come face to face with her infamous mountain gorillas, Bruno and I decided to follow in Fossey’s footsteps. It was an illuminating journey. |
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