Rwanda

We drove down some amazing roads, waving all the way, past tea plantations and beautiful villages until we reached Kigali. From there we drove North to Ruhengeri to get permits to see the gorillas and then the next day hiked up the volcano to look for them. We were really lucky, seeing them out in the open relaxing in the sun. You're allowed to spend one hour with them, get no closer than 3 metres and you're not allowed to touch. If you have a cold you can't go as they can catch many of our diseases. It was a magical hour, sitting a few feet away from wild mountain gorillas with the 200Kg silverback keeping a watchfull eye on us. It's an experience that stays with you forever. From here we drove back through Uganda to Nairobi and after a few days of sorting ourselves out decided to leave the rest of Africa for another trip. Once we'd left northern Kenya everywhere seemed so civilised with petrol stations, restaurants, shops where you can use credit cards and the people seemed less surprised to see us. After our journey through West Africa we felt that it would be better to visit the rest of Africa another day with fresh eyes and bodies. AFter 30,000km and 8 months we were knackered.