Hotel Africana Kampala
Plot 2-4 Wampewo Avenue Kampala, Uganda
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Overnight flights and airport fun!!
Flying from LHR T4 with Kenya Airways, our bags were packed and Dave, Tamsin, Jane and I started our holiday in style at the airport with a free for all on food and alcohol in the airport lounge which we took great advantage of. With our bags bulging with goodies, we met up with Alex and Louise who were also on our trip and caught our Kenya Airways …
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Goodbyes are not my forte
... store, hot and angry. However, the coffee shop makes me an iced coffee something or other which is essentially a coffee milkshake made with espresso and ice cream. It is fantastic. I tell Jean-Guy about it (from Montreal) and he has one too. We're now the happiest people on the truck. We then head to Red Chilli where the tour ends. The NZ girls (and the dipshit, blessedly), the brothers, JG and the SA ladies are all heading on to Nairobi, ...
North of the Equator
... Friends here.
10 Days ago, after my third week of
work in Kivumu, Rwanda, I decided it was time to see a little more of
the region. I was interested in traveling to the lake area of the
country which sits on the west side, bordering The Democratic
Republic of Congo. The large lake, named Kivu, took
about two hours to travel to by bus. Public transportation in most
African countries is provided by various sizes of vans and buses. Our
particular bus this ...
Primate Week
... can't kill me).
After that I took a 3 day side trip to Rwanda. Rwanda is like a place where God simply vomited up hills. It is all hills. And beautiful ones at that. It was an amazing country - went to two genocide memorials. I confess that before this trip I was pretty ignorant as to what specifically had gone on (I knew from the word genocide that it wasn't good). It was absolutely horrific. There aren't really words to articulate ...
Traffic and People and Rapids Oh My!!
... I was, however, exhausted and my forefinger had somehow been smashed in the process.
We finally put in for lunch. We ended up having to climb up a hill and it was all I could do to crawl to the lunch area. I was exhausted. I wasn't sure I could make the afternoon, but I damned well wasn't going to quit. Turns out the decision was a good one. The afternoon was childs play compared to what we went through in the morning. There were some big waves, but no huge ...



