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Hotel Diplomate Kampala

Muyenga Tank Hill, Diplomate Road, Plot 971, P O Box 6968 Kampala, Uganda

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Goodbyes are not my forte

A travel blog entry by travelinbitch

... rest of us are getting off here. I get my same cottage for my last night in Uganda. Spend most of my time on wifi in the bar, uploading photos and getting caught up on blog. I lend my shower to Deepa and her mum so they can clean up before their midnight flight back home. They kindly buy me a beer in return. Then it's just me and the Austrian girls. They're flying to Arusha around the same time I head to Zanzibar so we'll share a cab to the ...

North of the Equator

A travel blog entry by homeworkfilms

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... a Toyota that holds about 25 people.
Since the average rider does not have a large income prices for
westerners seem incredibly low. The ticket to Kivu was only 2000 RWF
(about $3.50).

The trip to Kivu traversed a series of
ever larger hills that provided dramatic views of the surrounding
landscape. Since the country is so fertile all of these hills are
lined with various plantations of banana trees, pineapples, beans,
kasava (a local grain), squash, ...

Primate Week

A travel blog entry by rebeccajhopkins

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... it was. However on the other side the country has appeared to really move on from 1994 and it was safe, friendly and appeared very united.

Also in Rwanda we went Chimpanzee trekking. I was quite weary after the gorilla trek 2 days before but it turns out chimpanzees are considerate primates and hang out close to paths, albeit very high up in trees. It is so surreal to be walking in forest which could simply be NZ and then have ...

Traffic and People and Rapids Oh My!!

A travel blog entry by lawyerchick92

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... vests and helmets and get down to the river. The worst part of the walk down to the river was the fact we were shoeless (we were told not to bring shoes to the raft) so my poor soft pedicured feet made it a miserable track across the clay and pea gravel down to the water.

We got situated in the raft and introduced ourselves (I was on the left of the raft second from the front between Olivier (French dude) and Graham (the Brit). Big J then told us where to sit ...

What a difference these guys make!

A travel blog entry by lindesaymace

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... house, it is no wonder; not only is there no mosquito net but the top of one of the walls is open to the elements.

The good news is, we get her to the clinic, get her seen and Wilson manages to get her medication for free, which otherwise would have cost 75,000Ush (many people here might earn 2,000 – 10,000Ush a day). On delivering her home we also take her 5lt of drinking water, some fruit juice and some money to get milk through a neighbour. Yesterday, ...