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Mbarara Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mbarara, Uganda
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 4 - Stuck in a hole
This is a top pick! 4km 1400ft ascent and descent. Happy birthday to me. Up before dawn, Weetabix and a stroll back down to Lake Bujuku to see if I could spot Mt. Stanley through the clouds (morning and evening are usually best), no such luck though! Nice hike up to ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 6 - Muppets
This is a top pick! ... the Kogere Hotel where I found the electricity wasn't working, just like when I left. Ordered a Nile Special, this has to be Uganda's best beer, before showering and handing my clothes to a young lad for washing - After 6 days hiking it amazes me how ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 3 - The real bog begins
This is a top pick! ... also, lobelias and some joshua like looking plants. Caught a few glimpses of Margarita, the tallest peak on Mt. Stanley and also Uganda and the 3rd in Africa. Later that day passing Lake Bujuku we arrived at Bujuku hut and the starting point for ...
Bigodi Wetland - Monkeys birds and a home stay
This is a top pick! Breakfast was included in the hotel price, I wasn't expecting too much but it turned into a feast. Coffee, fresh juice (tasted a bit like a mix between papaya and orange), bread fruit and a Spanish omelet, well that's what they said, I always though a ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day1 - The custard debacle
This is a top pick! 10km and 3300ft Woke up with a slight swelling of the gums due to goat meat stuck in between my teeth, boy that stuff is stringy. Breakfast definitely not up to the quality of dinner, in the aim to go big the pancakes were about an inch thick and ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 2 - Afternoon Storm
This is a top pick! 7km - 3000ft Weetabix and hot milk to get the day started. We dropped down to the Kurt Shaffer bridge where the Bujuku and Mubuku rivers converged (incidentally the hike was called the Bujuku - Mubuku circuit). We would follow the ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 5 - Gutted
This is a top pick! 5km - 900ft ascent - 3000ft descent Woke up to a fantastic blue sky. I was a bit gutted as I had decided at the start of my hike not to climb Margarita (16,763ft) mainly due to the $250 extra, not enough warm weather gear and the fact that most of ...
Ending the first leg
Hello everyone, This may be my last entry from Mbarara, Uganda where I have been since around the 27th of April. Our placements end on Tuesday, then we have a presentation to do for the Universtiy about our experiences with the organizations and our ...
Interesting facts about Uganda
I thought I would fill you in on some interesting things that I have learned about Uganda thus far. 1. Cars drive on the left side of the road. Most of the time. 2. Boda Boda's (motorcycle's for hire) are the scariest thing ...
Settling in Mbarara
Hello again from Mbarara. It is coming up to a week that I have been in Africa, although it feels like I have been gone from home for much longer. We have finally started doing program things now, like visiting a project called Healthy Child Uganda. This ...
Quick update
Not a whole lot to say today, I am at work with Healthy Child Uganda Monday to Friday 8:30-5pm for the next 10 days, and lots of meetings today... so can not write much...but this computer is a lot faster so I thought I would upload some more pictures ...
Africa!
Well here I am, downtown Mbarara Uganda after 21 hours of flying and 5 days of travelling. Africa is amazing. We landed in Entebbe, which is the capital, and jumped on our bus to Kampala where we spent the night in a hostel. The original hostel was ...
Thighs of Steel!
... about an 8 hour journey across Lake Victoria. Back to the trip.... The way of life in the remote bush area of Mbarara is a life without running water, or much water at all, no electricity, no roads, limited food supplies and very ...
Visiting the Hippos at Lake Mburo
Hey Guys, I forgot to mention that we also went to see a cave while we were in Sipi. Pretty uneventful, though we did get to see some bats! Sadly the photo posting has failed. I will try again tomorrow. Anyway, on with the ...
Jinja to Mbarara
Day 46 We started the day slow and made fair progress reaching Mbabara in the early evening, which we used as a transit town between Jinja and Kisoro. The only real hiccup was the hour or so it took to drive through Kampala. Like most big cities the ...
Give Me My Motor Car!
... things for Matt, the brother of a friend of ours who had agreed to host us at his AIDS/Development camp near Mbarara, about 4.5 hours west from Kampala. While somewhat frustrating (everywhere seemed to have run out of recharge cards for his ...
On the move
Hello, Take a look at the Photo Album associated with this entry...I just uploaded 9 pictures from this weekend to it! This is going to be a quick entry because I am at work, but I wanted to upload some pictures. We spent the weekend at Queen ...
Party in Mbarara on Uganda Independence Day
... dagen. Savonds wilden de meeste weinig doen maar Erik, ik en Josh hadden wel zin in een avondje stappen in Mbarara. Het is tenslotte zaterdag EN Uganda Independence Day!! Even vragen aan de barvrouw waar we heen moeten. Ze zegt ik ga wel met jullie mee ...
Lake Mburo - Our first wildlife safari
... park and not fenced in so all animals are free to roam the camp. There are however armed guards from the UWA (Uganda Wildlife Authority) looking after the camps and doing nightly rounds. The next morning we took down our tents before breakfast and ...
Lake Bunyonyi
October 17- Up early to catch a bus south to the town of Kabale, close to the Rwandan border and Lake Bunyonyi, where we plan to spend a couple days. Buses run frequently starting about 6am, so we just showed up, we were met at the taxi door but ...
Mobilising to Mbarara
... privileged member on the road and I watched as our bus scattered smaller vehicles into nearby bushes as it careered past. I had driven through Mbarara itself once before, on my way to Rwanda. It had looked small at the time (just 1 main street) but with ...
Chill Day
... way slowly to the Gorilla's which we are trekking on Friday but the end result will be worth it. Spent 3 days at a place in Uganda called Jinja and went white water rafting on the Nile where there were 12 rapids to get through. Manged to only flip our ...
Agents of virtue?
... instead of a $50 tourist visa, by saying we were going to do any activities, we had a quick overnight stop back in Mbarara, where everyone was so exhausted from the previous night that we all went straight to bed after dinner, and then journeyed onto the ...
Mbarara for a short night
As I arrived in Mbarara in the evening and left it the next morning, there's not much to write about it. Even though Mbarara is a prosperous Ugandan town (a lot of business going on there) there is not many reasons to stay at this place for longer. ...
On Safari
... search of food! They look a bit scary, we were very glad we were safely inside the car. We stopped for lunch in Mbarara, in a hotel and then continued our journey through enormous tea fields (which looked like grass until he pointed out the tiny dots ...
Fruit in a machine
... other way round) and in the middle of the equator it stayed still. Spooky. We set up camp in a small village near Mbarara where we were immediately the centre of attention as practically the entire village crowded round the gqte to watch the guys plqy ...
Bushara Island Camp
... some beautiful countryside on our way to Bushara Island Camp (www.acts.ca/lbdc/bushara). The route took us thru the highlands of Uganda & you can see why it is referred to as the Switzerland of Africa. After 2 hours, we arrived at the equator. It ...
A lesson in African Time: Relax...take it easy!
... it was just like coming home! RACOBAO is a local Ugandan NGO located in Lyantonde and Rakai Districts in Southern-ish Uganda. In the light of the growing HIV/ AIDS pandemic and its socio-economic consequences, this organisation targets people living ...
Stop smelling women's breasts in bars! ;-)
Rain has come! Well, actually 'rain’ is a bit of an overstatement for these few drops drizzling down, yet this guy who walks his cows past my door every day has this grin on his face that suggests that this is just the beginning. (Or else he just ...
The plan
... , and yes, there is this ‘but’ again, coming to Lyantonde would be the final straw to have this series of trips through Uganda (well, part of it anyways) fail. But I mustn’t get ahead of myself. To start at the beginning: we ate chips at ...