A few weeks ago we went for a walk across the forest on a Sunday afternoon. A big group of hospital staff and students went. We had some guides from the Ugandan wildlife authority as you can’t walk in the forest without them. They are very knowledgeable and told us lots about the trees and plants as we walked. They obvious wanted to be an educational experience and asked what we were hoping to learn from the walk – it was the first hike that I’d been asked my aims and objectives beforehand!
We walked to the river on the other side of the forest. It was so hot that a water fight turned into a fully clothed swim which was very refreshing. Cows had come to swim in the water before we got in but the water was moving pretty fast so it looked fairly clean. A friend told me afterwards that they’d seen cases of vaginal leeches at a nearby hospital from people swimming in a river so I’m not sure I’d be so keen to swim again!
A year in Bwindi 