a drive through ntungamo, a town in southwest uganda [video]
![a drive through ntungamo, a town in southwest uganda [video]](http://flyingnorth.net/wp-content/themes/advanced-newspaper/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fflyingnorth.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F03%2Fntungamo2-300x168.jpg&q=90&w=80&h=66&zc=1 "a drive through ntungamo, a town in southwest uganda [video]")
As I left the Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest and my spectacular encounter with the mountain gorillas, I drove through the town of Ntungamo. Ntungamo is a town of approximately 16,500 inhabitants…
the song and dance of uganda’s batwa pygmies [video]
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In the conservation game there are always winners and losers. When in 1991 the Impenetrable Central Forest Reserve—along with Mgahinga Gorilla Reserve and Rwenzori Mountains Reserve—was gazetted as a national…
the reality of tracking mountain gorillas in the bwindi impenetrable rainforest, uganda
As I mentioned in a prior post, the reality of tracking the critically endangered mountain gorilla in the Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest in southwestern Uganda is not for the easily frightened…
the mountain gorillas of the bwindi impenetrable rainforest in uganda [video]
![the mountain gorillas of the bwindi impenetrable rainforest in uganda [video]](http://flyingnorth.net/wp-content/themes/advanced-newspaper/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fflyingnorth.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2Fgorilla1-300x180.jpg&q=90&w=80&h=66&zc=1 "the mountain gorillas of the bwindi impenetrable rainforest in uganda [video]")
Tracking the gorillas at the Bwindi Impenetrable rainforest in southwestern Uganda is not what one might think. One may imagine, as I did, that I would hike for a few…
the elephants of lake edward, uganda [video]
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Within Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park lies Lake Edward, the smallest of the African Great Lakes. On my second day in the park, I took a boat on the lake…
uganda’s queen elizabeth national park [video]
![uganda’s queen elizabeth national park [video]](http://flyingnorth.net/wp-content/themes/advanced-newspaper/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fflyingnorth.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2Fuganda1.jpg&q=90&w=80&h=66&zc=1 "uganda’s queen elizabeth national park [video]")
In the first in a series of videos featuring Uganda, this mini-report, from the roof of a safari vehicle, gives a brief introduction to Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Established…
the incredible people, places and biodiversity of uganda
Sadly, the mountain gorillas did not have wifi after all. However, now back at flyingnorthblog international headquarters after seventeen hours in the air, I can reflect on the incredible people,…
flyingnorthblog heads to uganda and will be on blackout unless the gorillas have wifi
The name itself reads like something out of Where the Wild Things Are – or a place where one would expect to find a Gingerbread house and a witch. I am referring…