Alas, our private tour has come to an end... and chimp cuteness! 10/15/18

Up early again to start the day for the chimp tracking. It's easy to get up at 5:30 when you go to bed at 8 every night. On our way to start the treck we ran into a traffic mess. They were doing road construction so it's one lane, it's mud, overweight trucks are trying to get by, yeah on got stuck. We watched as 2 bulldozers and a backhoe pulled the truck out so it wouldn't tip over. Andy recorded just in case this was going to be social media worthy. It wasn't but traffic was a mess so our female (yay first woman guide!) chimp tracker came to meet us and we started our journey from the road above.

We slid down and down the trail. Andy was falling every now and then protecting the precious camera. There they were, in the treetops. We saw mamas with their babies, juveniles playing. So freakin adorable!! We watched them for hours. The mamas were building new nests in the trees for the night. They don't bother finding the ones from the previous night. A tiny baby held onto the mothers stomach as she climbed across the branches.

Alas our private tour has come to an end (we are actually happy about it). Godwin drove us to Mbarara so we could get a taxi to the lake. Yes a taxi sounds good, no bus that flips over and kills everyone thanks. Then I recalled, a taxi is actually a minibus that overcrowds more than buses do. Whatever, it's time for public transportation. He handed us off, we paid $8 to get to Kibale which would be close enough.

I landed the window seat while Andy got the middle (hehe). I put on my sunglasses to stop the shrapnel from hitting my eye since the window is wide open and I'm not about the close it with all the people up in here. It's good to be tall for: concerts, crowds. It's good to be short for: traveling in non-first-world countries. I was fine but Andy's knees were digging into the seats in front of him and his head was 1" from a concussion if we go over a huge bump. The first part of the ride was uneventful. They even pulled over so we could put our rain covers on our bags on top of the van (we won't make that mistake again). Then the people started piling in. At max we fit 24 people in the van that was supposed to seat 14. Shit was tight. Dudes were sitting on dudes. Andy was nice enough to decline the front seat since I was going to still be stuck back here. It was snug but part of the experience. We bought an eighth of a pineapple on a stick for $0.10 at one stop. All was part of the 2 hour journey.

When we go tto Kibale and dropped everyone off, they offered to take us all the way to Lake Bunyounyi for another $8. Yeah sure why not for 8km. The lake is beautiful, a piece of paradise. I didn't want to pay $20 a night to camp, but I'll contain my cheapness for a later date and just enough these lovely grounds at the Overland Resort and Campsite. We put up our tent right next to the lake. Got some beers and ate some of the crawfish that are famous in this country. This lake is freakin 6500 ft deep! No joke! Tomorrow we will relax before we head to Rwanda.