What will be the new food frontier? An article in the Wall Street Journal with the headline “Next Stop for Food Fanatics: Africa” predicts adventurous American palates may soon be … Read More
Bwindi and Mountain Gorilla
Here is a video about bwindi and the gorillas. The thing is that the Batwa people who we are there to help used to live in this forest for 50,000 … Read More
Batwa Human Relocation and Land Purchase Project
The Inti Raymi Fund is currently researching Parcels of Land to purchase for the 236 Indigenous Batwa Peoples who were displaced when the government dedicated the Volcanos National Park for … Read More
Malaria Treatment is serious stuff! I am taking Mefloquine
100,000 people per year die of malaria in Uganda alone. Mefloquine’s main side effects include abnormal dreams and hallucinations. Here are the details Lariam(r) (Mephaquin(r) or Mefloquine(r)) When you read … Read More
Yellow Fever Vaccination Shortage
I went back to Dallas County health yesterday for my vaccine and they were out! Said they had been out a month. They referred me to a place called passport … Read More
Mountain Gorilla’s @ Bwindi Impenetrable National Preserve – Next to the village I am staying in!!
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – This forest is a sanctuary for almost half the world’s population of mountain gorillas — about 330 of 600 left in the wild. BINP is … Read More
Checklists for Trip
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Final Preparations – more vaccines and a Visa!
I took my passport photos last week for my Visa application. It costs $100.00 for a 3 month Visa to visit East Africa. It lets you travel between Rwanda, Uganda … Read More
In Three Weeks!
I will be arriving in London, then on to Doha Qatar, Entebbe Uganda and finally to Kigali, Rwanda. From there a 4 hour trip over the mountains and Voila! 35 … Read More