This is an example of the excellent food we had everywhere we ate in Rwanda.
And now I know why it would take an hour to get a simple meal. Note the bowls and they’re red design. This was some kind of a red sauce they hand painted onto the plate just for this meal. Amazing!
This was the most pitiful morning I had. It was our last night out in the National Park. It was a cement slab but the walls were canvas and it was huge.
But I had forgotten my insulated thermos in the very first hotel in which we stayed and so my coffee had to be cooked in the provided glass which was just the bottom half of a wine bottle. And I had to boil each little cup with my little Electric heater. I still claim it’s better than no coffee at all!
I would have liked to stay here another night or two because it was fun just being in a tent with the wild animals outside.
Again this mosquito nets were not necessary.
My only complaint was the lighting. There was a single bulb in each room and a light outside illuminating the porch.
The shower was quite dark and this is my little waterproof blow up light that will illuminate an entire room.
All was well and good until the charge ran out on that light. Thank goodness it recharges quickly.
The sunrise was spectacular and it just kept getting better with every minute.
And I love a silhouette.
Room key — means Lion
This was the Ruzizi Tented Lodge and the staff were so very helpful and pleasant.
Was out on a deck over the water with little monkeys up in the trees watching us.
It was just a delight to see all the staff waving goodbye to us. I’m so happy we over-tipped.
This is the same 4×4 we used throughout our trip (except for our transfer from the airport in that yellow Jeep).
For our safari, the top popped open and we were able to stand on the seats and get perfect pictures without going through glass.
Oops! Another flat tire. It was right under where I sat again.
It was explained to us the thorns on many of the plants in the jungle were sharp enough to puncture a tire — I am remembering my overgrown Bougainvillea with thorns an inch long that could have done the same thing.
Mind blowing to think we saw these animals within an hour!!!!
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Excited to see these zebras right in front of our eyes.
And then there were the zebras and the water buffaloes.
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Water buffalo.
Yep! Our third flat tire in two days. This time we found out our second spare wasn’t holding air and we had to wait for rescue.
Eventually somebody brought us a tire.
In time we all got out to pee. The medium size puddle was mine, the large one was Sue’s and poor Jane sometimes has what we jokingly call shy bladder and she just couldn’t do it. The one drop is hers. Too funny.
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There we were out in the jungle with all the animals I had just photographed, waiting to be eaten — US not the ANIMALS!!
Foolishly, my blue suitcase was brand new when I started and ended up full of orange African dirt and cuts in the plastic piping. I now look like a professional Traveler.
Those big branches were actually used in changing the tire. For some reason they had to drive up on the tree limbs, even though they had a jack.
These were the men that brought us the tire.
I often pulled the crippled old lady card on this trip. (bad neck, both bad shoulders, bad lower back, just plain lazy sometimes.) Poor Jane ended up putting all our suitcases back into the 4×4 as I just winced for her.
I love zebras!!
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Stopped at a little restaurant and found ice cream, a picture of how they charge their phones in Africa, cute furniture uses of all those flat tires.
Last tour day and happy to be sleeveless with no mosquitoes nor flies.
I think you’ve seen this but elephants are always fun the second time around.
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This is a horrible video. But it’s the only one I have of the black rhino.
There is talk of a black rhino and a white rhino; however the white rhino originally started out as the wide rhino. Both are Black Rhinos but they have different sizes of noses I believe.