42 years ago I travelled to Rwanda and had a few adventures there . I remember it as an undeveloped undiscovered gem . One if the most beautiful places I experienced and saw with my own eyes before it was gone . Dianne cosset the gorilla lady was still alive and the ruhengeri gorilla park had just opened recently in fact - that month . It cost only 100 dollars to hike there and see the gorillas for 3 days entrance . At least that was what I paid . For me at the time it comprised 10% of all I had . I walked alongside lake kivu towards cyangugu after taking a speed boat fro. Gisenyi and felt like Michael Jackson or Jesus as hundreds of kids followed me - most have never seen a white man or musungu I before . I recall the torrential rains and sheltering on a moss encrusted French colonial mansion i the shores of the volcanic lake that is said to have dangerous amounts of menthane below . And I remember seeing the sunrise in a tropical paradise of birds butterflies and flowers … truly havilah - and yes the gorillas I was able to touch and recall my primal past .
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