Monday, June 29, 2009

98% the same . . . ?!?

We arrived in Entebbe, Uganda as a monsoon rain abated and climbed into our boat for the bumpy 1.5 hour ride into Lake Victoria. (Thank goodness for Dramamine!!!)



Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary was established 10 years ago to house all the orphan chimps confiscated from traders or rescued from poachers’ traps in Uganda. Did you know that chimpanzees are actually part of the ape family and 98% of their DNA is identical to that of humans?




We hung around for the afternoon feeding and hurled carrots and avocadoes over the electric fence (they are apparently escape artists) to the greedy chimps before returning to the mainland and on to our campsite.

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