点评:When you feel sad that today you have just taken the last of your anti-malarial tablets after your trip, it shows how fantastic it was and that dreams can come true. Billy Ssali, who owns and runs and at times guides, Active African Vacations tailored the trip around western Uganda to our every need and surpassed himself. We are photographers with specific needs of angles, light, proximity and, and, and everything that is necessary to capture amazing pictures of the animals and birds. His patience was endless, for which we're eternally grateful. The gorillas were stupendous and I'd have happily stayed to live with them, which sadly was not possible. We were fortunate to have several shoe bill storks pose for us and then ground hornbills, bustards, bee eaters, black and orange weaver birds all crossed our lenses, as well as the iconic tree climbing lions, with a cub being a particularly wonderful "model" and leopards, which we could have touched, as one walked right beside the vehicle. The networking between the driver/guides is essential and Billy, being a master at communication, made sure he knew exactly where we needed to be and got us there as quickly as possible.
The lodges were wonderful, although a couple were a bit quirky, which was entirely our fault because we booked them, and they were the ones that were quirky/less desirable, because of our lack of knowledge of location and facilities (one had a toilet that risked falling over, until I wedged it with rocks). Billy knew (but not about the toilet) and we should have left all bookings to him! But even they had elements of wonderful and he made the most of the difficulties that our stupidity entailed.
I cannot recommend Active African Vacations highly enough, because Billy is so adaptable that if there is a specific requirement, he will ensure that need is met.
A brilliant, memorable, unforgettable and wonderful trip.
翻译:当你因为今天刚吃完旅行后最后一片抗疟药而感到难过时,这恰恰证明了这段旅程多么美好,梦想是可以实现的。Billy Ssali,Active African Vacations 的老板、经营者,有时还担任导游,根据我们的每一个需求量身定制了乌干达西部之旅,他付出的努力超越了自己。我们都是摄影师,对角度、光线、距离等等都有着特定的要求,才能拍到令人惊叹的动物和鸟类照片。他的耐心无比丰富,我们对此永远心怀感激。大猩猩真是太壮观了,我很乐意和它们一起生活,可惜没能成行。我们很幸运地拍到了几只鲸头鹳为我们摆姿势,然后,地犀鸟、鸨、蜂鸟、黑橙织布鸟都掠过我们的镜头,还有标志性的爬树狮子,其中一只幼崽成了特别棒的“模特”,还有豹子,我们本来想摸摸它们,因为一只豹子就在车旁边走过。司机/导游之间的沟通至关重要,Billy 是一位沟通高手,他确保我们准确了解目的地,并尽快送我们到达。
小屋非常棒,不过有几间小屋略显古怪,这完全是我们的错,因为我们预订了它们,而这些小屋之所以古怪/不太令人满意,是因为我们对位置和设施缺乏了解(其中一间小屋的马桶随时都有可能倒塌,直到我用石头把它塞住)。Billy 知道(但不知道马桶的情况),我们应该把所有预订都交给他!但即使是这些小屋也有其精彩之处,他充分利用了我们这种愚蠢行为带来的困难。
我强烈推荐 Active African Vacations,因为 Billy 非常灵活,如果有特殊要求,他一定会满足。
这是一次精彩、难忘、难忘的美妙之旅。