August 16-18, 2017 Once we left the Volcano Sam and Alex, the Russian and I, along with our driver/border guide, Alex headed to the border. Driving through Goma was interesting as the UN seemed to be more active than before. Turns out Alex and I both love cemeteries and both struggled for pictures of this … Continue reading RELAXING AT LAKE KIVU
August 12, 2017 Once we finished our first day of Gorilla Trekking, we were famished. Our driver had delivered our bags to the Glamping Camp of Burkima. Burkima was originally set up for researchers, I am told. To use the term camping is a misnomer since this place is quite comfortable and the tents are … Continue reading BURKIMA CAMP AND THE LAVA CAVES
August 12, 2017 Up VERY early to go see the Gorillas in Virunga National Park…Breakfast was simple and tasty and the view of Lake Kivu lovely…There I met a British Couple who, it would turn out, would be driving with me…We discovered on the way to Burkima that we had a similar itinerary through the … Continue reading THE ADVENTURE TO BURKIMA TO SEE THE GORILLAS AND A LITTLE HISTORY
August 8 & 9, 2017 Amsterdam: Bikes, Bikes everywhere. When I arrived, a gentleman told me that Amsterdam had 880,000 people AND 2 million bikes! That should tell the story of a city more mobile on 2 wheels than 4. But with that information, you should also know that the bikes rule and as a … Continue reading AMSTERDAM: A LOVELY FIRST IMPRESSION
Our trip to Auschwitz -Birkenau was sobering...What a staggeringly Horrific place...it was so overwhelming...but the din of tour buses helped distract my mind from the horrific scenes I kept imagining as I walked the camp...the throngs of tourists are a negative and a positive...on the negative side, it seems a bit disrespectful to the 1.5 … Continue reading AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU IS SOBERING
Yesterday I continued on my Temple visits...I went to Ta Prohm, the temple used in that "Not to be missed classic:'Tomb Raider"(please know I am joking...other than the scenes of Cambodia that movie was a miss!!!)...that temple is being taken over by the jungle surrounding it...it is beautiful and eerie at the same time...as … Continue reading A FLOATING VILLAGE AND MORE TEMPLES IN CAMBODIA
Yesterday we went snorkeling...incredible...amazing fish...our guide, Pee Pot(he has us call him Peter) told us that there were no sharks...I had seen the movie "The Beach"( and we were at that beach for o ne of the stops) and two characters get pretty mauled so we were concerned(haha)...He assured us that no mauling … Continue reading THAI ISLAND INDULGENCES CONTINUES
Emilie's Adventures 