Hotel Equatoria Kampala

Kampala, Uganda

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Yes, We Really Are Those Dog People

A travel blog entry by saundersfamily

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Written by: Erica

Seeing as Dixie is the "baby" of our family, this story really isn't all that crazy.


I haven't blogged in a while thanks to our slow (ok, almost nonexistent) internet, but I am working on updating to share more stories of OUR everyday life here in Uganda. OUR life ...

North of the Equator

A travel blog entry by homeworkfilms

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... hilltop there sits a town
where the fruits of the harvest are traded and sold. These small
towns usually have a dozen or so brick and plaster buildings that are
painted with any number of company logos. Since even painting a
building is prohibitively expensive in the country companies will
offer to paint a building as long as there logo is present on the
structure. MTN (cell company) paints theirs yellow, while Primus
(beer) paints theirs blue.

The bus ...

Primate Week

A travel blog entry by rebeccajhopkins

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... walk across the path and climb a tree. They sat up there eating figs and throwing them down.

Am now back in Uganda on route to catch up with our truck which didn't do the Rwanda leg. Today I took a 9 hour local bus from Kigali in Rwanda to Kampala in Uganda. 9 hours is a long time when your ipod goes flat at hour 4. 3 more hours tomorrow and we should be back at the truck and on the way to the Masai Mara - time to see the big 5 me thinks.
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Traffic and People and Rapids Oh My!!

A travel blog entry by lawyerchick92

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... edge of the raft), told us to watch for crocs (that did not get a laugh from me) and gave us a little introduction to commands. I have rafted a number of times before so none of it was new to me. Once we had the commands down, we practiced paddling to Big J's commands. The most important command we needed to remember was that once we hit the rapids, we had to slide down into the main part of the raft, grab the rope that encircles the raft and keep the paddle outside ...

What a difference these guys make!

A travel blog entry by lindesaymace

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... her again and she got up and came to the ‘door’ to greet us. She still has a pain from her cough but already seemed so much better. It was good to see. She is a fighter I can tell, partly from the good-natured way she told off Wilson for bringing her new Mzungu – ‘she sees herself as a teacher’, Wilson explains, ‘though I’m not sure how as she doesn’t speak any English’. Veronica berates him, ‘you bring me ...