Alex has done an excellent job describing our Chimp trek today. My extraordinary good luck with Primate trekking continues. I had been told that chimp trekking was a much more precarious process than gorilla trekking. Chimps are constantly on the move and tend to hang around high in the trees, making observation by tourists difficult. I have been warned that many a group has trekked for hours and hours only to catch a brief glimpse of a chimp or two high in the trees. We got out of our vehicles and as the Park Ranger started to give his schpiel, two chimps crossed the road 20 yards behind him. It was Chimp-o-rama for the next two hours and we never wandered more than a hundred yards off the forest road.
Our first day and a half have been spectacular. We are staying on the edge of an ancient crater:
The birding is spectacular:
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And there are dogs here:
Braving the potential acquisition of schistozomiasis, Alex and I decided a swim in a volcanic lake in Uganda was a must:
The weather is perfect--warm and sunny during the day, cool in the evenings, minimal humidity.
Bill
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