Fort Portal aka Monkeys!

So this was definitely another fantastic weekend. Kristen (who is blogging this summer about her OLPC experiences) invited me to be part of her OLPC team (also blogging) for the weekend while they were visiting another OLPC team's project, which just happened to be in a national park. The person we were visiting was Ian, who lives in the Kabali National Forest research station. His dad is a Harvard professor who has been studying the chimps in the forest for years. (Small world, right?) Kabali National Forest is known for its chimps, baboons, and other primates. We went on a few nature walks led by Ian and got to see a ton of monkeys of different types. Baboons wandered through our camp and we saw red tails, blues, and black & whites in the trees the first day. The second we went to one of the crater lakes to swim. There were these funny fish that come up to your feet and eat the dead skin. Kinda tickled. Not so unlike these, except we paid about $1 to get into the crater lakes. As we were heading out, we got some fantastic shots of some red caspers in the trees around the lake. Without further ado, my weekend in pictures!



KWat & me


Me in front of a cool tree


KWat and a kid who goes to Duke who's working with Ian's dad this summer studying chimps


Jeff! In our first walk through the forest on Saturday.


Big tree! Smaller tube trees grow up the sides and eventually combine to form a super tree.


Kwat showing off the beautiful views we saw while we were walking between crater lakes.


Stoney - this strange ginger soft drink. Made by the Coca Cola Company. Fun fact: if you go to the Coca Cola museum in Atlanta, GA, at the end you can taste Coke products from around the world!


KWat getting a fish pedicure


Crater Lake! Do you see the money tail?


crater lake crew: Ian, Jeff, KWat, me


These are red colobus monkeys, three in this picture


Tiny red colobus monkey!


Two more =)