Capitol Palace Hotel Kampala

... have posted a few more of the childrens music group and the school we visited with last week in the Gringo area. The school was something with enormous class size to teacher ratios and tremendous needs for everything: pens, pencils, paper, chalk, teachers, books, you name it really. The orphans are all in dire need of uniforms as well. More on this later....<br><br>http://www.nkuringowal kingsafaris.com/ Robert is the guy here, he is organizing our Gorilla trip.

... Brit guys, one is quiet but nice, the other is the life of the party and funny as hell! A Swiss-German 35 yr old guy who is probably my go to guy here. Him and I click really well and he is the funniest guy. You would never know by what the way he talks but he is some thing like a 5- time black belt in Judo and also a chemist. This guy is so straight-forward in what he says and has some really funny stories. He is only here for 2 weeks which sucks ...

... of the song &#8216;Jambo&#8217; and he also performed some acrobatics at the top of a 50 foot palm while picking coconuts for us. On his return to ground level, he prepared the coconuts for us, very skillfully with a sharp knife that he draws toward his body! On the drive to the other end of the Island of Zanzibar, we passed through small villages and beautiful forests. Our resort was very luxurious &#8211; each house had its own ...

There's not a whole lot of sighseeing options in Kampala. I tried to cover as much ground as I could. I hit the Kasubi Tombs, which is where the Buganda Kings are buried (which happens to be the largest tribe in Uganda), the Qaddafi Mosque ...

... good and pretty cheap once again at $5 and I have left over for supper lol. Went to the largest mosque in East Africa which was built by Mohammed Gadaffe (I am probably killing his name) and was greeted when I entered the gate by a "tour guide". The guy brought me to this reception area and pulled out this registry with all kinds of people's signatures and said I had to pay 10,000 for the tour. Now I had heard you were encouraged to ...

... spray from them was most welcome as it was baking hot there. After a refreshing drink at the Red Chili campsite we crossed the river to The Delta area where the wildlife was prolific. It was beautiful. As Heather has camped with friends in this area before she had a campsite picked out for us close to the river. Our guides had not camped before and I think were a little wary. Needless to say no one else was about just us and the animals, we did have an armed guard with ...

... the place you want to order from. Then, as though you are in a market, you are swarmed by representatives of each of the fast food joints, who fight to have their menu at the top of the pile in front of you. If you look at another menu, they will either move their menu back to the top of your view point, or thats it, they choose to move on to an other customer. You order from these 'hawkers' who then go give your order to the fast food joint, they bring you your ...

... me to learn a little that I could use in the future. One a personal level Paul Kabanga was one of the most inspiring people I have met here. Admittedly he had an advantageous start, being well educated at Kings College Buddo which is one of the oldest and best schools in Uganda (founded in 1906 under the British and didn't have a Ugandan head until the 1970s) and at university but he still works so hard to find paths to development. He has a network of ...

I've spent the last two days meeting the UVDA volunteers and staff and getting set up in Luwero district. Saturday was a much better time with the UVDA than Friday had been as two volunteers showed up as well as Joseph and Rogers the director. This time Rogers was totally drunk when he arrived but we made the journey up with no problem and arrived at Kikandwa village which is in the south of Luwero district. Luwero was devastated by the post-Amin war in Uganda and ...