Kigali to Lake Bunyonyi 120 km.
Road to the border is excellent tar through and over the green , green hills of which every inch is farmed. In Rwanda you drive on the right hand side and then back to left hand side in Uganda.
The damn visa is $US 100. and $20 road tax . Took an hour to exit and enter with no hassles and then arrived at Lake Bunyonyi Overland Resort by 1pm, which has a great camping area on grass alongside the lake. When I pulled in there were two other bikes just like mine there , with decals on the panniers from all over the America's.
Then the owner, a chap came down and greeted me and we chatted and asked him if he was the two South African doctors on the bike, which him and his wife are. I had read his blog months ago and he was the one I had learnt about the Leatt from and finally bought one , so that was pretty crazy. Crazier yet was that he knows three of the guys I stayed with in Central America a couple years ago !!!!!!!
They have been going for 22 months heading slowly to Cape Town . Mathew and Megan ( www.worldwideride.com) had me over for an amazing dinner and gave me tons of info on where I am heading , so was a great day sharing stories , drinking beer , and chowing down with some fellow countrymen and women.
They departed today for Rwanda and I just ballasbakked around the camp sorted my bike out . Last night we had a moerofa storm and it bucketed down , and all was dry inside my tent which amazed me , so two thumbs up for Marmot tents , for the price it better be a bomber tent.
Tomorrow I head up to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest where the gorillas hang out , not with me though , unfortunately. It's like $500 to $700 to visit them for 60 minutes , and they don't even talk. Everyone I have met that has done it clearly states that you have to do it , seems like extortion to me , I could stay another two months in Africa for that.
I know I will regret it in years to come when they are no more . You just can't do it all.
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