Rwanda used to be a Belgian colony so I got to eat some nice French food and practice my French.
I went to see 2 holocaust memorials, both of them churches in which Tutsi's had sought refuge (unsuccessfully).
As you can see, these memorials are pretty graphic and have been left largely as they were after the horribly events that took place there.
After the Holocaust memorials, I headed to Parc Nacional des Volcans on the Congolese border to see the Mountain gorilas that live there. This is where that bird from Gorillas in the Mist did her research. We had to hike for 3 hours through mountainous jungle to find the gorillas and as you can see from the picture it was pretty tough going, and pretty wet too coz it was drizzling most of the time.
It was worth it though, just to be scared witless by being so close to an enormous silverback (too scared to take a photo, ;).
Aaaah, a baby one :)
