Chimps, chimps and more chimps…
So after a brief visit to another place that was full…which we couldn’t call because the Lonely Planet’s phone numbers – can you say that half of them didn’t work? I swear, we wanted to chuck the book out the bus window half the time. And it seemed like if the book REALLY RECOMMENDED somewhere, that it’s like an athlete being on the cover of sports illustrated – they’d be closed down – anyway, we ended up at the CVK Resort/Campsite.
It was great – good food – really quiet – except for the frogs at night – oh my goodness! Can you say loud! Wow, I didn’t realize how loud they could be! Anyway, we arranged to see the chimps at 8 am the next day. And we decided to walk from the CVK to Kibale where the chimps are located. It took us 2 hours. In the dark. In the forest. It was fun but leaving at 5:30 am – kind of dark.
And we could not lose this dog that hung out at the campsite. We thought we locked her in but she must have known a way around the gate. Not exactly the smartest dog either. She almost got shot at the park because they didn’t want her bouncing around the national park. And she almost got attacked by a baboon on the way back. But apparently, according to 2 Germans, Sandra and Peter, that were staying at the campsite too, there are baboons there too and they are afraid of her so when she saw a huge family of baboons on the road back to the CVK she just bounded up to them and let’s just say they were WAAAAAAAYYYYYY bigger than she was. I thought she was going to get us killed because baboons are not very nice when they are provoked (so we’ve heard) – and we were with this dumb dog.
Anyway, the chimps were okay. Apparently it wasn’t hot enough that morning because the chimps had no incentive to come down to the ground since they weren’t hot in the trees. Everyone said we were lucky to see the chimps (even in the trees) but I felt a bit ripped off. They did look like humans hanging from the trees though. Like you can tell they’re 99% of us just by body movements and stuff. But the monkeys on the way back were really cool. There were like 5 different kinds and we also had some right outside our banda (thatched room at the campsite).
The next day we caught a matatu back to Fort Portal where we stayed the night so we could catch another long bus ride to Kabale. We wanted to go hike a volcano in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Kabale is the portal for that.
Tags: RTW Trip, Uganda
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