First day in Bwindi... A bit of an anti-climax!

So here we are! After a 11-hours journey and a car breakdown we finally arrive at Bwindi! Now the word 'remote' has a brand new meaning... the closest settlement that could be awarded the category of town is about 5 hours behind us.
An amazing fact is that during our journey we met hundreds of Ugandans walking on the side of the road heavy loaded with water jerrycans and other goods in complete darkness and the same applies to all villages we passed by; not one single lighted house. Yes, these guys must have a special compass or high-tech infra-red glasses... this is something I still struggle to understand. The only ones with a tiny light-point were those with mobile phones on their hands! Welcome to the 21st century! Walking many miles to fetch clean-enough water but always reachable on the phone - this is just the writer taking it a bit too far as network coverage is close to none around this remote area.
Anyway, we arrived to what would be our home for the next while to find a nice house with a bed, a small table and two chairs. Absolutely exhausted and facing the crude reality of not having electricity we collapsed in bed. At 6:00 in the morning we were waken up by a myriad of sounds; life here starts as it finishes, in complete darkness before the sun rises over the beautiful hills. So there we are, having slept less than 3 hours ready for our first day at work! We met our boss, got a brief induction and were shown all around the hospital where we were introduced to all the staff (the word 'colleague' hasn't reached this far yet).
As per the title of this post, the anti-climax was about to happen... We left work early to walk to the trading centre and buy some stuff so we could have a coffee the following morning, to realise that whoever chose to call that thing a trading centre must have had a very dark sense of humour! The village, Buhoma, and the trading centre are the very same thing, consisting of a few tiny shops selling almost nothing and, most remarkably, they all sell almost the same 'nothings'. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry we bought a few bananas and little more (if I remember properly) and we decided to go back to our empty and light-less home.
I'll leave it here for today, but please don't despair, life in Bwindi isn't what we would call comfortable but the place and our work compensates for most of the hardship.
Best wishes
J&I