Leslie & Vickie’s 2026 Safari

Thursday evening was in slow motion. We got back to our cottage after the gorilla trek and asked for our fire to be lit earlier than usual. A wonderful young man came and built the biggest, bestest fire for us and made sure we had enough logs for the entire evening and then some! We…

Wow- a really L O N G day and we are beat. We left the lodge at 6:30 after a nice breakfast buffet. The lodge provides gaiters at a minimal cost. So we suited up and got picked up by our driver Gilles. We arrive at the park and get assigned to a group of…

Wake up! It’s 5:30 and we have to get ready for our monkey trek. Breakfast begins at 6:00 and we grabbed a coffee and banana. Not really hungry at 6am. Of course the staff was mortified that we would pass out from hunger. But after all the food we’ve been eating our stomachs needed a…

Oh golly- where to begin? I’ll start with a few facts about Kigali. As the capital, it is the largest city with 1.75 million residents. During a work week the population can grow to 2.4 million with people coming into the city to work. The main industry is agriculture with coffee and tea exports leading…

It’s been a long 24 hours. Caught the Concord Trailways bus at 1:00 on Sunday and just arrived at our hotel room in the capital of Rwanda at 10:30pm Monday evening. There is a 6 hour time difference but still a long travel. The best part was Leslie was able to pull off a last…