thailand is famous for its elephants; elephants are a center of national identity (a white elephant was on the thai flag until the late 1910s) and a main draw for tourists. we chose to go to thailand because that was the lonely planet available at the bookstore and because we wanted to see the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tourism'
elephant nature park in n. thailand
June 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Paige · Thailand · Tourism
chiang mai
May 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
we’re in thailand, not uganda. did you know that? it’s obvious to us with the 16+ hour travel, 4 hour time difference, and smoothly paved roads with stoplights. sorry to the respective anderson and bowen fams for not posting sooner so you knew we were safe and sound…
we flew entebbe to addis […]
Tags: Paige · Thailand · Tourism
elephant bluff
April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
we are unintentionally creating an elephant motif in our house. the long wall in the main room is covered from edge to edge with an elephant printed batik hung by a bamboo rod taken from the bamboo patch in our garden. 8 purple elephants marching left to right across our wall. there’s […]
Tags: Paige · Tourism · Uganda
there i was, in the congo
April 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment
story and photos inside
queen elizabeth national park
April 9th, 2007 · No Comments
we have returned from a 6-day trip to queen elizabeth national park in western uganda. it was our first time there and it did not disappoint. every day was a 6something am wake up to view game or birds or drive to the next place so i don’t have the energy just now to go […]
rafting on the nile
February 26th, 2007 · No Comments
uganda’s main tourism attraction in terms of people and dollars is the wildlife and landscape and safari sort of thing. but there is also a bit of new zealand-esque adventure sport scene centered around jinja, the source of the white nile on lake victoria. last weekend was our first foray into this scene, and definitely […]
a day in london
January 18th, 2007 · No Comments
i had 11 hours in london today en route from DIA to EBB. unlike my 20+ hour layover a week ago in the other direction, this time i was in london during daylight hours and rather than waste my time sitting in heathrow i spent a day on the town in central london. […]
Tags: Paige · Reviews · Tourism
christmas 2006, part 2: the rest of the story
January 11th, 2007 · No Comments
t&e arrived in uganda just before christmas as our first visitors from home. i prepared, i planned, i looked forward to their visit. as to be expected not all of the visit went as planned, but as my grandpa used to say “if everything went right, we’d never have any stories.” so, […]
Tags: Paige · Rwanda · Tourism · Uganda
gorillas
January 11th, 2007 · No Comments
some of the best-known tourist attractions in uganda are the families of mountain gorilla (gorilla gorilla) that live in the southwest corner of the country, along the border of rwanda and the d.r. congo. there are 700 mountain gorillas left in the world, with ~380 living on that tri-border area in mgahinga natl park in […]
christmas day gorillas
January 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
christmas 2006, part 1…
parc nacional des volcans is the place to see gorillas in rwanda. rwanda, uganda, and the democratic republic of congo form the trifecta of gorilla hot spots as the only places left in the world to see mountain gorillas in the wild. knowing no international borders, the gorillas move freely […]