Monday, 27 February 2017

Visiting the furry people

Searching for a job is depressing. Searching for a job for much longer time than expected is depressing, mind-numbing and taxing in every single way you can imagine. And I am fully aware I have not been unemployed nearly as long as many other people. Anyways, at some point you need some kind of distraction from all this and from the fact that the next planned trip isn’t until August. It’s hard to find anything that is able to distract you from the daily suckery but that is what trips are for!

I hereby present to you this year’s “I need to get away and be able to think about something else for a while”-trip.

9th – 10th of April
Fly out from Copenhagen, layover in Doha and continue to Kampala. The original plan was to fly with Emirates – they have the A380 going CPH-DXB with economy also on the top floor – but considering price, length of layovers, and the quite large difference in reviews on Skytrax I ended up going with Qatar instead.

11th of April
A long day’s drive west to Kalinzu Forest Reserve. The tour is an overland camping tour so things will be similar to when I did my Southern Africa trip where we have a large bus/truck containing everything we need and the nights are spent in tents.

12th of April
We will be getting up early in the morning to do a chimpanzee trek followed by a tea plantation visit afterwards. To be honest if the chimpanzee trek drags out I won’t be the one to complain if we are forced to skip the plantation. End the day by driving to Lake Bunyonyi.

13th of April
Gorilla trek. Not much else to say, is there? Whatever time not spent on the trek is spent relaxing. Looking back to when I was there in 2010 that’s probably a good thing; the humidity and conditions you walk in doesn’t really encourage much running around after returning from the trek.

14th of April
Free day to do (almost) whatever we want. Among the list of choices is also the chance to do a day trip to Rwanda. That sounds quite tempting, to be honest.

15th – 16th of April
Drive back to Kampala, spend a night there and continue east towards Jinja.

17th of April
Spend the day in Jinja for relaxing and activities.

18th – 19th of April
Return to Kampala midday before getting on a flight home in the late afternoon.

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