Karmic Voyeurism

For a weekend excursion we traveled as a group to Akagera National Park in the Eastern Province. I was pretty satisfied with my bicycle safari in Kenya, but in the end I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see more. Plus, we heard that the park had recently burned, making it hard for animals to hide from our prying eyes. The trip required a lot of sitting, which tested everybody's enjoyment of the experience. One of the three vehicles broke down soon after entering the park, which called for creative, close quartered seating reconfigurations in already hot conditions. We saw plenty of incredible wildlife: baboons, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, spider monkeys, buffalo, gazelle, zebra, and antelope to name a few. Sadly, I think the biting fly attack at the end of the day remains everyone's most vivid memory of the excursion. The inside of our jeep turned into a bloody graveyard of the insidious pests. I smashed indiscriminately and remorselessly.