Travel into the Democratic Republic of Congo began from Lake Bunyoni, Uganda, a beautiful lake surrounded by high mountains heavily cultivated with terraces throughout its valleys similar to the highlands of Nepal and Ecuador.

The high mountains run all the way to Kisoro where the Virunga volcanoes...

Earlier this week cyclone Nargis tore through the southwest of the country killing up to an estimated 60-100,000 people so far and affecting 1.5 million people by the disaster. Hundreds of thousands of people have no food, water, or shelter. One of the poorest countries in the world, the...

Beautiful Burundi is a very small country bordered by the giants of Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda to the north.
Like Rwanda, Burundi was colonized by the Germans and later the Belgians and as in Rwanda the Europeans played on ethnic differences to divide and conquer the...

Catching a daladala (minibus) south from war torn Burundi in a bus that looked like something out of the 18th century, lol, packed to the brim with locals laughing, joking, talking, directions being yelled with more people being packed on with bags, bikes, and huge bags of veggies being...