LeighTravelClub

Great photos. Thanks. Hope there are more to come.

balengo

Hi Chris,
nice photos!
I'm going to nkuringo group next february and I've some questions:
do you arrive there from kisoro? how is the trip between kisoro and starting point?
is it possible to organize the tranfer directly from kisoro?
thanks in advance
Cristiano

atravelynn

Now I've seen your whole lot. These are outstanding. You had good conditions and did an excellent job of capturing facial expressions and activities. You even got a chameleon. This is a collection to be proud of!

waynehazle

Thanks for putting up the Ethiopia pics also

A good reminder that Africa isn't just all about the animals. Looking at the children, the market, the landscape... Africa just gets in your blood.

thit_cho

I concur -- thanks for sharing the Ethiopia photos. Between your photos and Maxwell's photos and trip report, I'm seriously considering a trip to that region (but not until 2008 -- fully booked for 2007).

Thanks again -- great photos.

Michael

annergizer

you must have had great lighting or a great camera. Mine mostly came out blurry

Chris_GA_Atl

Hey everyone, thank you all for your comments on the gorilla pictures. I have been traveling for the last couple of days, so sorry for the slow reply to some questions you asked.

First, just to let you all know, I am not even close to being done posting our Ethiopia pictures -- I still have galleries for Gondar, Axum, Lalibela and Addis to be added, it is just taking me a while to work on them. The Gondar gallery is almost complete and should be up within the next 1-2 days. So stay tuned to see the rest of where we went in Ethiopia!

After that, there are more galleries to come. Here are the categories I have in mind:
Uganda: Ngamba Island
Uganda: Entebbe/Kampala
Rwanda: Kigali
Rwanda: Outside Kigali
Uganda: Mgahinga Gorilla NP and surrounding area
Uganda: Kisoro, Ruhija and Buhoma

It will be a slow process to get all these pictures sorted and edited, but eventually that is what I should end up with. And then I will write a trip report ...

To answer some of your specific questions:
Linda: YES, we got to do a forest walk on Ngamba Island and it was incredible! From our discussions with the island staff, it looks like they are going to continue the forest walks for the foreseeable future. The integration of the "younger" chimps into the main group is NOT interfering with the forest walks.

Cristiano: When we trekked the Nkuringo Group, we were staying at the Volcanoes Safaris lodge next to the entrance of Mgahinga Gorilla NP, so we were actually a little to the southwest of Kisoro. The drive to Nkuringo took about an hour, over very rough dirt and gravel roads. The plus is that the terrain and scenery on the way is astoundingly beautiful. I can't answer your question about organizing a transfer from Kisoro, because we were driven by our Volcanoes guide who had been with us for the entire part of our trip beginning in Kigali. I would suggest inquiring of whatever hotel or lodge you are staying in about the transfer.

Annergizer -- we definitely got lucky with good light most of the time, but we also had to do a lot of shooting at ISO800 and 1600. We got an awful lot of blurry pictures too -- sometimes well over half of the pictures we took. But we took between 200 and 400 pictures of each gorilla group, so a few of them were bound to turn out!

Thanks again to all of you for looking at and commenting on the pictures. As I get more galleries posted, I will let you all know. Now it's back to the grind photoshopping the Gondar gallery ...

Chris

atravelynn

Chris, Did you hear anything about Akagera while in Rwanda? I'm thinking of going there when I return to Rwanda but am not sure. Thanks.

Chris_GA_Atl

Lynn,
We heard it mentioned by guides and by the ORTPN rangers, but we did not talk to any tourists who had visited there, so I can't offer you any feedback from that perspective.

Also, for anyone interested in Ethiopia pictures, I have just finished putting up the gallery from Gondar.

Chris