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Fort Portal Slideshow
Fort Portal
Travel Blogs from Fort Portal, Uganda
The Murchison to Fort Portal rally drive
This is a top pick! ... beige top was red!), internet and a fantastic chicken curry have helped paint a rosy picture of the pleasant Fort Portal. One of the nice drinks they have in Uganda is a ginger beer called Stoney Tangawizi, it made by Coke, god knows why they don't make ...
Dances with Chimps
... is a barbecued beef skewer for about 15p every time you stop which helps you to forget the horrors instantly. Fort Portal, is a little town in western Uganda which lacks both a fort and a port as well as anything interesting. It's its surrounding areas ...
Installation successful!
Well, we fixed it. First, we built a new antenna pole. Think power lines. We're talking a 1.5 meter hole in the ground, six 2x4s, a 3x4, and the 6 meter pole we were previously using. It's about 10 meters tall, and that thing won't be going ...
Ants in pants...
This morning was relatively leisurely for me, split into two groups to head to the chimp trek, I opted to go in the afternoon, figuring that the morning groups would have found them and we could go straight to them! A guided tour around the tea ...
Damp and disheveled.
... after 2 days of continuous torrential downpour, on the back of a boda-boda (motorbikes). Terror. But we make it and are now in Fort Portal, one of the last stops before heading back to nairobi for the flight home, one week today. I can hardly believe it. ...
A day in Nyarukamba
... put it) in the tiny village with us. Still, we had about 40 "participants," mostly children (actually, 75% of the population of Uganda is under 18, so that's normal). The site is almost ready now, we only have to attach the antenna and wireless equipment ...
Another day in Bukuuku
... at the Community Knowledge Centre in Bukuuku. (I discovered today that it's actually spelled with a double 'u'. There are three Bukukus in Uganda.) Tomorrow we'll be starting on the relay station, which will be in the village up on the hill. The people ...
Survey day
Today we visited all of the villages where we plan to install equipment, with the exception of Nyarukamba, the village on the mountain. By the time we were ready, the weather was bad and we couldn't go. We spent most of the time sending our friend Joshua ...
Chimps and Squits - lovely
11\11 The all day drive yesterday was very bumpy and very boring! The roads in Kenya and Uganda are not good! Got to our campsite pretty late so had to put our tent up in the dark under mozzie attack! We are in Kampala, the Ugandan capital now and it is ...
Murphy's Law
Remember the whole ordeal with the pole for the antenna at the knowledge center? Well, after all of that work, the pole was completely unstable and actually being pulled crooked instead of straight by the guy wires (two was clearly NOT enough). Luckily, ...
I arrive in Fort Portal
... had to post anything on the Internet, so I'm going back and putting in some entries for previous days. Yesterday I arrived in Fort Portal at a small hotel called the Rwenzori Travel Inn (the Rwenzoris are the local mountain range). There are mosquito ...
Drive, drive, drive!
... past. As we climbed in altitude, more and more tea plantations seen and papyrus crops for as far as the eye could see. Uganda is an incredibly beautiful country and nothing like what I was expecting. The camp site at the Chimp and Tea Guesthouse was ...
We saw the Gorilla's
... were being passed around too see which person had the best photo's. Tomorrow we are heading off towards Kampala - the capital of Uganda and have a bush camp before heading into town over the next few days to visit the city, visit a chimpanzee sanctuary ...
Lake Nkuruba fun!
... reasonable cost of 80,000UGX which is around 23 pounds), and planned to spend 12th-14th June in the crater lakes region near to Fort Portal. I was especially pleased about this as I had been there just about a month previously, to go chimp tracking. It is ...
Installation update
The install has been progressing slower than expected, but we're almost done now. The only hardware left to install is the antenna at the Community Knowledge Center (CKC), which has been quite an ordeal. It turns out that the antenna, beautifully ...
Our closest relatives
This is a top pick! ... cut. Leaving the city, we initially made quite slow progress as it took us nearly an hour to reach the outskirts of Kampala. Uganda has a population of over 30 million people, and has one of the densest populations in all of Africa. As we travelled ...
A crazy day
Our first task for today was to attach the pole with the wireless antenna to the roof of the community center. After watching both Mark and Bob try it yesterday, I decided that climbing onto the roof was the right thing to do. What a view! The only ...
Chimp Tracking in Fort Portal
... code means that married men generally no longer visit prostitutes, and their wives end up bearing more children as a result. Once in Fort Portal I took a matatu to Nkingo village, which is about 35km from the town, and lies on the boundary of Kibale ...
On your bike!
I set off on Monday morning from Kamapala to Fort Portal, a 4 hour journey which in theory should have been painless but with the fat bastard next to me and the extremely bumpy road it was anything but.. Once I did arrive I sorted myself out for the ...
A Sudden Goodbye
... ways. And so the remaining three continued to Lake Nkuruba, one of the good-looking crater lakes near the town of Fort Portal. The journey here was one which tested our patience for the very African attempts of subtly overcharging Western ...
Barrel of Monkeys
... the past few days, during which we have been hanging out on the rim of Nkuruba Lake, one of 82 crater lakes in Western Uganda. The campsite where we are staying helps to fund an adjacent orphanage and medical clinic. We have taken a couple of ...
Master Boda
... thighs and was wondering how I was going to make the first five minutes let alone the long bone-shaking road back to Fort Portal . Going downhill required all possible strength as my triceps burned to support the pack on my front whereas going uphill was ...