The worn hands of Africa
The oldest of the IK community supported his hands on a cane..
Uganda
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Un dia en el Kazinga Channel nublado
Near Lake Edward and the cross next to a big town. We hear chants and a crowd of people arranged as in a circle. The song is growing stronger as our barge moves. At this distance we can see that the people are dressed for the occasion without knowing what time it is.
Riding of the Queen of Africa
(...) The African Queen, the truth, never sailed these waters. He did in Eastern Africa. That was his role skippered by Charlie Allnut to supply the villages of East Africa at the beginning of the First World War (...). When a film helps you discover a continent.
Uganda: the last refuge of gorillas
In a corner of the world, in tropical forests that engulf borders, the last gorillas survive land. Go on your quest is a huge experience, unforgettable. We in Uganda, in Bwindi National Park, tracing the footsteps of these great primates to which, Ranger warns the Nkuringo, it is better not to make eye contact so they do not feel challenged. Here we go.
Discovering the Sources of the Nile
The encounter with the legendary source of the Nile is an unforgettable experience for any lover of travel. Its calm water, the fishermen with image stitching their networks and throwing the horizon, the morning mist, country music bar, current noise in areas of rapid ... wherever the White Nile was born.
Among the impenetrable jungle gorillas
Ricardo Coarasa – Bwindi (Uganda) The last gorillas of land from the world living in a jungle,…
And in injury time… came the leopard
There are stories that seem taken from a film script. Followers of this blog know that a few months ago I threw in the towel on the important, most crucial, challenge of seeing the "big five" in Africa: elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard (take an ironic commentary crucial, although my boat for joy when I saw it was to win the Champions).
The quiet of Kibale Forest chimpanzee
Ricardo Coarasa. Kibale Forest (Uganda) After an hour in the Kibale forest Uganda, letting ourselves be engulfed by…
How do you say fart in Uganda?
The fun and special experience a unique encounter with mountain gorillas. A South African clumsy got a special time to become a mad trip to the jungle. The encounter with the great apes left a lasting memory.
Wild chimpanzees of Kibale forest
Ricardo Coarasa. Kibale Forest (Uganda)
Dropped from the ficus fruits like missiles over our heads, our footsteps quietly flee, scream as if they were slaughtering, violating the silence of the jungle, and when the game is inevitable, strategically around us. They are stronger than us, but do not know and, as we see more robust than, fear us. To track wild chimpanzees of Kibale forest, a Uganda, is an exciting experience. As impressive as looking at them at last face to face and discover his eyes look tired man.
The real sources of the Nile at Ripon Falls (Uganda)
Ricardo Coarasa- Jinja (Uganda)
The locals say this place as the exact point where the Nile begins its journey 6.500 km to its mouth in Egypt. When the browser Speke gave the mythical sources 1862, here were the Ripon Falls (flooded after dam construction). The gurgling river now in the same place, as if looking out the waterfalls would like timidly surface. The Nile is here an oasis of calm water that can be navigated by boat for a few dollars. The panorama is taken from the same island that Speke drew near Ripon Falls.
The show of mzungus and the dwarf
There are some stories from the end of my trip to Uganda that should not be forgotten. The bad connections blocked, as I wanted, that blog and travel go hand in hand. Now, from the snowy mountains of Switzerland (What change!!!), I begin to explain the end of what for me has been a fascinating adventure.
Face to face with the last gorillas
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Ricardo Coarasa. Bwindi (Uganda)
In Uganda's Bwindi Park, one step away from the border with the Congo and Rwanda, the last surviving mountain gorillas on earth. This is one of the three silverbacks (silver back) Nkuringo group. With luck and skill of ranger, walk in a ravine when you can find them (although it is rare that the meeting be delayed three or four hours) . Hacked his way to intrude a few minutes to make their habitat, indifferent to her consent, is an unforgettable experience. The images speak for themselves. You stay out of breath a few meters of some primates as huge as they are limited to eating tender leaves. As if aliens we taken by surprise at Burger King ...
Sources of the Nile to the rhythm of country
Ricardo Coarasa. Jinja (Uganda) There are selected sites at which the sound track has time. To the north…
Uganda: with chimpanzees in the jungle wild
The Kibale forest hides one of the last strongholds of wild chimpanzees. Follow the thick tropical vegetation is an unforgettable experience. Her screams, the jumps between the branches and almost human behavior make this place something magical.
Uganda: the encounter with the "green" Nile
Playing the Nile is a special experience for the traveler. His wild in Murchison Falls leap; his calm millennial against Paraa Safari Lodge. Uganda is a country of green landscape, red dirt roads, dense clouds skies. A fascinating place.
