We are back in Rwanda until monday where we will fly out to Kenya for a few days. Here are a few photos from the places we visited and people we met.

We met a guy working as a journalist for the Washington Post at our hotel. He was saying that he had several Nikon 300’s stolen from him at gun point when they were taking photos in Goma. So we are very happy to not have run into any problems!!

The Internet is very slow so I will try to upload as many photos as I can so bare with me. We have been told that Rwanda is the land of 1000 hills. I must say it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen in my life. It is like a real life Jurassic park! We stopped to take this photo on the journey from the capital to northern Rwanda.  We are now in a hotel in the city of Ruhengeri. Just outside our window is a large volcano where rare gorillas live. We want to  go see them because they will pet you, but it costs $500 USD!! So not in the budget! Tomorrow we will be traveling to DR Congo in the morning to the city of Goma. We will spend 3 days there giving the Bridges of Hope sponsorship training seminar and doing some film and photography work.

We had a 7 hour layover in London so we decided to hop on the subway and see some sights. We were able to see Big Ben and the Queens pad, although we were running on zero sleep in nearly 19 hours. 

That was  not the end to say the least.  We ended up making it to Rwanda on nearly 34 hours without sleep. We are staying in the capital of Rwanda, Kigila. It is a very green country with amazing hills everywhere you look. It is also allot more developed then I  thought. Anyway just a quick update that we made it and are safe.

Old Shawn’ard

I fly out from Calgary tomorrow (January 28th) I am not sure if we will have access to the internet in either Rwanda or Congo but I will do my best to keep posting BLOG’s and possibly photos of our travels.

I am traveling to Congo and Rwanda with a team from Bridges of Hope to do some film and photography work on January 29. If you would like to donate money to help with travel costs or help with Congo aid relief please contact me “shawn.t.mehler@gmail.com”  Any donation is much appreciated! 

Old Shawner