John Hart, my colleague, looking over Uvira on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika. Five days of walking separate us from the forest. Read post here.
Rising from Lake Tanganyika, the hills will bring us over clouds at 3000 meters.
The path is busy with people. This doctor comes down with his payment.
Our first night in the mountains, we still see Uvira below.
Falk Grossmann, my colleague, takes a pause.
See the village? We slept there the first night.
Like ants, humans walk in line along the path.
A Manyamulenge, part of a controversial ethnic group.
Transit town of Magunda, third day of walk.
Magunda, medieval landscape.
John sending emails with sat phone. The system is unreliable.
Giant ferns.
In the forest on the fourth and fifth day of walking. Falk taking a pause in the endless mud.
Interhamwes with Maï Maï militias taking a look at themselves.
We arrive at destination: the middle of the Itombwe Massif.
We stay in Miki, a village that used to be a mining center for Mines des Grands Lacs (MGL).
WCS Itombwe team.
Bird inventory starts: blue headed sunbird.
African yellow white eye.
Regal sunbird.
White starred robin.
Plant inventories.
Our small mammals team at work.
A mole without eyes.
Three horn cameleon.
Polyploide frogs. They have more than two chromozone per pair. A rarity in evolution.
Mining cassiterite (tin) for use in your electric products.
Cassiterite on the way to Bukavu (far away). They will sell it for 3.5$ a kilo.
Another expensive package on his way to Bukavu: last but not least, myself.
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- Ituri Forest, Congo 2005
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- Mozambique, 2002
- Ruwenzori, Congo, 2005
- Salonga National Park, Congo, 2005
- Sunday On The Congo River (2006)
- Swakopmund, Namibia, 2002
- Virunga, Congo, 2005
- Israël, 2005