Congo

There is a certain nostalgia these days for what some have called ‘the golden age of air travel’.  During much of the ‘50s and early ‘60s, before wide-bodied jets whisked hordes of tourists to the Azores, to Cancun and Chiang Mai, air travel meant piston-engine propeller planes with unpressurized cabins that took as long as […]

Just north of the Mountains of the Moon, gazing down on the waters of Lake Albert, the Nile, and Africa’s Rift Valley, stands a Blue Mountain peak its head wreathed in cloud.  Mt. Hoyo (1,450 m, 4,760 ft.) cloaks its flanks with the Ituri rainforest, sometime home of the Mbuti forest people.  Neglect and civil […]