The breakfast was pleasant but early. We got shown the baboons that live around the lodge (during the genocide, the lodge was abandoned and the baboons took over... now they are sometimes confused as to who lives inside and who lives outside).
Then, in the SUVs we had driven from Kigali, we picked up a registered guide and hit the bumpy, dusty, rutted road. 4 people to a car, plus driver and guide - meaning two in the way back.
Within the first ten minutes, we saw 2 warthogs
a baboon
two monkeys
and even a hippo.
The next six hours were somewhat less exciting. Although we did get attacked by horseflies, which was the most entertaining/exhausting part of the day.
and we found some zebra...
a few antelope...
and even a couple of giraffes!
Our safari took us all the way to the Ugandan border, on which we saw some amazing cows. They all have these exceptionally huge and majestic-looking horns.
And even in the farthest reaches of wilderness, at the edge of the national park itself, in the driest and most barren land, you can't escape the reality of humanity in Rwanda; people are the country, and no matter how many circles you drive in across empty savanna, people are walking and living and somehow surviving in every corner and empty stretch.
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