This trip continues to be amazing. Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, is a very clean beautiful city clinging to numerous mountains. We spent a whole day walking around, getting organized and visiting the Genocide Memorial Museum which is a well done museum that recounts the tragedy that was Rwanda in 1994. It is very hard to imagine that over 1,000,000 people were butchered in this country. The people are very open to foreigners - and small children like to touch our white skin, kinda weird.
Today we awoke at 4am to go to the Congolese border and trek Gorilla (not Guerilla) and this proved to be one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It was a difficult trek up and we were able to hang out WITH the gorilla in the wild - breast feeding, chest thumping, tree eating, poop throwing, etc. We spent about 2 hours with them and then the jungle was hit by a hail storm which made the 90 minute trek down to the base very grueling.
We crossed a 'border' between Rwanda & Uganda which is patroled by a chicken coop fence and a herd of goat. We were soaking wet from the down pour. From here I hitched a ride with 5 congolese guys in a 1998 Toyota Carolla that took us 2.5 hours on dirt mountain roads to the town of Kabale. Here i jumped on the back of a motorbike navigated by a 14 year old Ugandan Evil-Knievil over mountains at speeds that made me think - I'm going to die flying over the edge of a Ugandan mountain.
We are staying in a tent on the shore of Lake Bunyoni - it is unbelievable!
I haven't showered in six days - I must go now.
Love,
Jeffrey James
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Jeff you'll have to give us a presentation when we see you next. We will need stories and pictures. jana
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