The rest of the drive to Ngunywe took us past a sprawling refugee camp. For the rest of the week, we noticed the ubiquitous presence of tarps from the UN High Commission for Refugees across the country.
We arrived at our hilltop hotel in a downpour after driving up a slippery mud road. Posh and I shared a cottage with a bedroom, bathroom, and cozy sitting room complete with fireplace.
The next morning, we were up well before sunrise in order to drive into the national park to go chimpanzee trekking.
None of my pictures turned out terribly well as the chimps were generally obscured by leaves and branches, but it was exciting to see them despite the less than ideal conditions.
Babies stay with their mothers until five years old. Chimps have a fifty-five year lifespan. They spend much of their time in trees eating leaves, though they also eat meat. Each night, a chimp will make a new nest in a tree for sleeping and will abandon it in the morning (pictured below).
We trekked for a few hours round trip. I didn't pay too much attention to the landscape as we headed towards the chimps in the morning, but I made sure to take my time on the way back. The trees were thick and butterflies hovered all around. It was a sunny morning as we headed back to the hotel for lunch.
