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Day 1 : one arm in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern.
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Day 1 : zebra in Lake Mburo National Park.
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Day 2 : waterfall near Nshongi in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
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Day 2 : where Bwindi Impenetrable National Park meets farmland.
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Day 2 : before Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
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Day 2 : Bwindi Impenetrable National Park seen from the lodge near Nshongi.
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Day 2 : kingfisher on the veranda of my lodge, with Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the background.
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Day 3 : Sabinyo Volcano (3645m) seen from near the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park headquarters in Ntebeko (2360m), Uganda.
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Day 3 : Sabinyo Volcano (3645m), where Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC meet, seen from the North.
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Day 3 : one of Sabinyo's many fragile ladders, this one in the otherworldly heather zone.
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Day 3 : looking back down from Sabinyo's summit (3645m) on peak 2 (3540m) and, behind that, peak 1 (3380m), with Uganda to the left and Rwanda to the right.
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Day 3 : dark clouds gather over Sabinyo.
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Day 4 : dawn in the Bwindi foothills, seen from the dirt road between Nshongi and Kisoro.
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Day 4 : what looks like a dense tropical rainforest, is actually the track.
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Day 4 : Christmas, a male mountain gorilla of the Nkuringo group.
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Day 4 : massive male mountain gorilla of the Nkuringo group.
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Day 4 : female and two infant mountain gorillas disappearing into the thicket.
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Day 4 : quietly eating mountain gorilla hidden in the thicket of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest .
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Day 4 : inquisitive young mountain gorilla coming our way.
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Day 4 : young mountain gorilla of the Nkuringo group, about to sit right in front of us.
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Day 4 : young mountain gorilla of the Nkuringo group.
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Day 4 : young mountain gorilla sitting right in front of us.
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Day 4 : the equatorial rainforest that is home to the Nkuringo group.
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Day 4 : at a stream in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, amidst giant ferns.
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Day 5 : Virunga Volcanoes: Muhavura, Gahinga, Sabinyo, Visoke, Mikeno (from left to right, east to west).
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Day 5 : Queen Elizabeth National Park: the Rift Valley floor.
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Day 5 : wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
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Day 6 : Nyamwamba Valley, first glimpses of the Rwenzori Mountains.
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Day 6 : trailhead near the Mulyambuli Rangers Post (1727m).
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Day 6 : Mulyambuli River.
