Be very careful what you wish for for!! I have spent many happy hours watching nature progammes about the mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, and the Chimps at Gombe. I’ve read Diane Fossey, Jane Goodall and Birute Galdikas’ books each time with the same wistful comment, “it would be so fantastic to go there”, safe in the knowledge that we will never actually go because:-
a) It’s too expensive
b) No one else in the family is that wowed by the thought of primate watching
c) It’s too inhospitable
d) We might catch horrible diseases
e) It’s too dangerous
f) It really is too dangerous
So after exploring and rejecting the much gentler options of the Phillipines (too rainy in August), Indonesia (too busy) on Friday we catch a flight to Rwanda. A few days in Kigali with a quick hop into the DRC (if you say this quickly it sounds less terrifying) to see the mountain Gorillas and climb up Mount Nyiragongo . Hopefully we won’t see any of the other sort of guerillas, or catch any horrible diseases. Updates to follow and if they don’t then you will know that I was correct about items c) to f) above………………………..
Pirate Travels 