Day 169 – 170: KCCEM to Kibuye via Nyungwe forest
We set an alarm for 06:30 with the idea of leaving by 07:00 to be at Uwinka at 08:00. According to the receptionist at KCCEM most hikes leave at 08:00 from Uwinka which was only [...]
Day 168: Kigali to KCCEM via Butare
Caro had to go to the bar again after midnight to tell people to keep quiet. They turned the music down a bit, but some security guard kept on watching music videos and moving tables [...]
Day 165 – 167: Gisenyi to Kigali
We got awoken by the traffic again and got up for breakfast in the main house. We wanted to get to Kigali today and decided to take the main road back to Ruhengeri and then [...]
Day 163 – 164: Volcanoes NP to Lake Kivu
We got up around 09:00 and had coffee in the car park between the two vehicles. We sat and chatted further with Helen and Jens until basically 12:00. Around 10:00 Caro and Sekar made egg [...]
Day 162: Lake Bunyonyi to Rwanda
We managed to leave earlier than usual at 09:48, but since we were heading to Rwanda which is only GMT +2 we told ourselves that we actually left at 08:48, almost a record. We took [...]
Day 159 – 161: Ruhija to Lake Bunyonyi
Keeping to our new pattern we only left at 11:00 again. The first 28km was on a gravel road through the rest of the forest and took 83 minutes. The road got very dusty towards [...]
Day 158: Gorillas! and then Buhoma to Ruhija
We didn’t get much sleep during the night as first people only left the restaurant really late at night and then the generator was running. Just as we got used to the sound of the [...]
Day 157: QENP to Buhoma, Bwindi
In the middle of the night nature called Caro, who then climb out of the tent. Hugo heard a loud scream and then the car started to shake. Caro stepped on what felt like scorpion [...]
Day 156: Public road through QENP to @the river lodge Ishasha
We had a slow morning and only left at 11:00 again. We retraced our route on the horrible ‘tar’ road back to the turn-off to Ishasha in the South. From the turn-off, it is a [...]