So, memorablog. Last time I found some notes from my first trip on African contintent – Tanzania. I decided to write a memorablog of my maiden trip and of course add some photos… So, for next few posts i will transfer back to November 1998…
How everything started… nothing too dramatic…
At the end of September 1998 i was finishing my graduation thesis. And in Ljubljana I met with my best friend Adi for a drink . While drinking beer and watching people going by, he explained his idea to go traveling to Zanzibar… Zanzibar I asked??? Thats somewhere faaaaar away? Yep, Africa he replied…
Well, i was interested to go with. But, I didn’t want to go only to the beaches, i wanted to see the world. I wanted to see wild animals… yes, lets go then backpacking to Tanzania.
A few days later we reserved ourselves flight tickets towards Dar Es Salaam. We got some medications and antimalarial drugs, and that was it… No particular planing. No experience. We just knew, that we will end our trip on Zanzibar, enjoying white sand beaches drinking cocktails and beautiful women… And in meantime we’ll see Kilimanjaro and some elephants…
Lets go 
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Tale vikend je bilo ravno pravo vreme. In ce odstejem cas za kidanje, sem imel vsaj priloznosti in cas posvetiti tudi fotkam iz polpretekle zgodovine… iz Afrike… In ko gledam nazaj, so generalno te fotke veliko bolje kot tiste iz Indije… in vedno ko tole gledam si mislim, da bi sel nazaj, predvsem na jezero Bunyonyi v Ugando pa naredit vse tiste stvari, ki mi jih ni uspelo… torej, nisem splezal na enega izmed treh vulkanov na ugandsko-ruandsko-kongoski meji (npr. Muhavuro), nisem sel v pogorje Rwenzori, nisem sel do slapov Sipi in splezal na Mt. Elgon, … in se in se… niti mi ni uspelo ugledati v zivo simpanzov… ma bo ze, drugic…
Link:
Uganda http://matty.breg.si/photo/africa/uganda/index.htm
Kenija http://matty.breg.si/photo/africa/kenya/index.htm
Just a few photos from Uganda and Kenya. I finally managed to get them sorted. It’s quite difficult to get through more than 4000 photos. OK, selection was not so difficult, as i’m quite happy with only 5-10, but thats another question…
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Murchison Falls National Park, with 3,840 square kilometers is Uganda’s largest National Park. The park is cut in half by the Nile and its landscape varies from dense rainforest on the hilly ranges in the South-West, to undulating savannah in the North-West. The forest shelters many primate species, including Chimpanzees, while the river attracts various Antelopes, Buffalos, Rothschild-Giraffes and Elephants. Every little bay of the Nile rivers seems to be occupied with their bubbling and snorting sounds.On sandbanks huge crocodiles bask in the sun, and along the shores one can often spot elephants, giraffes, buffalos. Hippos can be counted in hundreds.
These gentle giants are slowly recovering from the brutal slaughter they suffered during the civil wars, when they were used as moving targets for the army’s artillery.
Philip Briggs has written an excellent article about the Murchinson Falls national Park.
Link to photos: http://matty.breg.si/photo/africa/uganda/MF/index.htm
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Its very difficult to make a selection of the best photos… After 4000+ shot photos i tried to minimize everything just to 15-20 photos… And probably even not the best ones… But still… worth a try.
I tried mainly to focus on people and animals.
And warning… flash required… slow server and long download…
LINK http://matty.breg.si/photo/africa/presentation/index.html
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Za popotnika in navdušenega fotografa je verjetno najlaže dosegljiv in najbolje organiziran ogled gorskih goril v Ugandi, ki je med tremi naštetimi
politično najbolj stabilna in varna država (gorske gorile najdemo v naravi samo še v Kongu in Ruandi). Dostop do nacionalnih parkov pa je vse prej kot preprost, saj leži
življenjski prostor gorskih goril na enem izmed najbolj odročnih območij Afrike…
Več v članku v reviji Proteus…
KLIK do spletne strani. Zadnji izvod s clankom pa je dostopen v PDF obliki…KLIK (1,5Mb)
Več fotografij http://matty.breg.si/photo/africa/uganda/mgorilla/index.htm
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Well, i was interested to go with. But, I didn’t want to go only to the beaches, i wanted to see the world. I wanted to see wild animals… yes, lets go then backpacking to Tanzania.