by Mike Wood | Dec 3, 2025
Check that. Make it the 500-pound silverback in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. And I’m not sure how the phrase “800-pound gorilla” came to be. They don’t actually get over 600 pounds. We drove from Entebbe, Uganda to the Burunga...
by Mike Wood | Dec 3, 2025
On our first day in Uganda we went to the CTC Conservation center. It is about two hours north of Kampala. They encompass sixty acres and do animal rescue and breeding. While we were there, we got to hold a van hornel chameleon and a egg eater snake. We saw...
by Mike Wood | Dec 3, 2025
Besides the Abuna Yemata Guh church that I previosly posted about, we visited a dozen more monolistic and semi-monolistic (rock hewn) churched in Lalibela. Some of these were cut into the sides of rock faces, but most were dug straight down into rock. These dated from...
by Mike Wood | Dec 3, 2025
There was a volcanic eruption in the Danakil Depression. But it happened five days after we left and it was at a different volcano than the one we went to. I received a US State Department alert not to go to southern Ethiopia due to an outbreak of the Marburg virus....
by Mike Wood | Dec 2, 2025
Four events that happened to us in Ethiopia: In Africa, you go through two or three security screenings before departure and one security screening after arrival. When we arrived in Addis Ababa, the screening picked up Kate’s binoculars. These aren’t...
by Mike Wood | Dec 2, 2025
We’ve gone to several churches and monasteries in Ethiopia ranging from 300 to 10,000 years old. These were all good to amazing sites. But, if you dare, go to the Abuna Yemata Guh monolithic church. It is completely carved out of sandstone and is at the summit of a...
