The Old Candle Factory

Just a quick note to say we had a fantastic meal in a very popular restaurant last night. Last one for a while. These pictures I like , and there are more but it's difficult to find time+internet to do it. Don't worry - I'll keep snapping away and find out things...like Kigali is so clean because the inhabitants use every last saturday of the month to clean up their city. And it works!

Click on a picture for a bigger size. I've arrived in Kigali, RWANDA and what a beautiful clean city it is. Lovely friendly people with a unique reason to display such a determined busy atmosphere. I'm just off on a recce and the electricity keeps going off. Don't know if it's the city or the hotel. Anyway - I'll do my best to upload pictures tonight. But I have to be up early to do the flight, then T H R E E D A Y drive to Zambia, and sleeping rough/in the open/camping. Going back a bit - this is the first landing in trees trying to not land in the forbidden Ngorogoro crater. I'll try and upload pics of the recovery soon as poss. It's getting busy here and I'm up at 5am again ready to fly, then drive 3 days . Whoopee!!! More pics of the rescue mission! Breakfast in the Serengeti after a wonderful balloon flight.

Not much time left on my allocation here in a computer room in a hotel in Mwanza on the shore of Lake Victoria. Oli and Phoebe almost in shouting distance! The cameraman and sound man are queuing up to use the pc so I can tell you that we are flying to Rwanda in the morning - KIgali is a lovely town and I'm looking forward to seeing the scenery. And witness the new approach to life taken by all the inhabitants. I am due to tether the balloon on thursday and take kids up from an orphanage, We enjoyed a commercial balloon flight in the Serengeti because my balloon was not allowed to fly. So the champagne breakfast tasted extra good with no responsibilities. The campsite that has been my home for 2 nights had the most spectacular sounds all around - particularly the hippos about 100 feet away in the river. Truly Africa! The guys are champing at the bit so I'm off to find tea, and will reappear before long....