tacugama

Last weekend, a few friends and I took a overnight trip to the jungle to visit Tacugama, a chimpanzee sanctuary

This is part of the steep hill we climbed up, took us 30 mins, all up hill, it sucked. I cant wait for winter, im so sick of sweating :(

Anyway, this is an example of one the tree houses we stayed in. They were pretty awesome!

This is Kelly, inside our tree house, it was actually pretty nice. No ac though. Lots of bugs and only one light. made for a good adventure!

Lynette and I sitting outside on our deck.

The patio, with the awesome view of the jungle.

Tacugama is a place where people take chimpanzees that have been rescued to teach them how to be wild again and then eventually set them back into their natural habitat. There are five stages the monkeys go through. The first stage is where they go when they first get there, to get vaccines and whatnot. the second and third are larger and have lots of places to play. The picture below is showing them in the third stage.

Apparently this place has been open for 15 years...and they have never set any chimps back into the wild. they say its because theres no place to put them quite yet because the laws against hunting are not enforced. but 15 years? im just sayin...

This is part of the jungle for stage 5. lots of space for the chimps. We could hear them but we couldnt see them.

This is stage three, in back you can see a fence and more monkeys in the back and that is stage two.

The next day we went on a hike to Charlotte falls. Beautiful, but hot, humid and i am out of shape. i wanted to cry. but then i reminded myself that im in africa, in a jungle and its beautiful and i have nothing to cry about...except being sweaty. i am looking forward to winter!

A beautiful stream on our hike to the waterfall.

and the waterfall! So pretty and fun to swim in :)

Hope you all enjoyed!