11th – Go west!

Before breakfast at 0600 the tents were more or less taken down and bags were packed. After eating and packing the truck we left around 0730 to go west for the Kalinzu Forest Reserve. The drive was 10-ish hours including a few breaks here and there. Today’s schedule was just to get us to the new camp site with no plan during the way so we tried wasting as little time as possible during our breaks.

Crossing the equator.

We are 22 in the group and with 24 seats in the truck there is little spare room. It works as intended, though, and it has AC and WiFi (which was not expected at all). All in all more modern than the one we used on the Southern Africa tour in 2013. This one doesn’t have a built-in kitchen, though, which is a bit of a surprise, but as long as all campsites have some kind of cooking equipment that won’t really be an issue.

The camp is basically located in the middle of the national park which means that we might be able to hear the chimps during the night. Also, when doing the walk tomorrow it means the guides and trackers will arrive and we just start the walk directly from the camp – makes things easier than having to drive somewhere first.