When on Safari, we tend to want to get up early, not just to get ready, get breakfast, break camp etc, but to ensure that we get our ration of fuel for the day 🙂 And that the convoy doesn’t leave us behind. I jest, they wouldn’t do that, would they?
We awoke early at Karasabai and broke camp, after the morning ablutions, breakfast and so forth, we then had some time for a few photos as we waited for the convoy to assemble
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Our first full day in the mountain trails, and we even had a few stops where we could take more photographs 🙂
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Just after a rather steep mountain pass, we stopped at a village called Karabaiko, where Eddy even got into doing some repairs.
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We visited the village of Tipuru on the way. Tipuru has a nice little shop that has lovely indigenous food and drink for sale, like Cassava bread and “Fly”, a potato liquor.
Thence to our final stop for the day at Rukumotu (not our planned stop, but it was too late and too dangerous to proceed any farther.
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At Rukumotu, they gave us permission to camp out on the grounds or in the school, we picked a nice hard spot outside the school, that ended up bending at least one of our tent pegs… we were definitely in the mountains, not soft Rupununi soil at all.
Click on the photos to see them in the Safari 2012 Gallery in the Collection.
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The beautiful, smooth new road that was being built up to Karasabai when we were here in 2012 now extends to just a few miles outside of Rukumoto. In another year we should be able to drive to Monkey Mountain in a car!