Was it worth it? This is the question I keep coming back to after my visit to the mountain gorillas in Uganda. I think the answer is yes but I will attempt to explain my uncertainty in this post. Heading into the impenetrable forest the three of us certainly had different expectations of what the…
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You’re going where?! A holiday to Rwanda and Uganda
Standard pre-holiday office interaction: Colleague: “can you do X,Y,Z for me next week?” Me: “Sorry, I’m off on holiday for two weeks” “Oooh anywhere nice?”, “Errr, I hope so, Rwanda and Uganda”…. Reactions then ranged from “Where?” and “Why?” to “Is it safe?” to the not very up to date “Isn’t there still genocide there?”….