Pr Kampala

... about it for next week". A little disturbed I asked him to explain and it turns out he wanted to talk about the Halloween party for the children that i have suggested...a slightly easier conversation to have with him. So it's all go with the decorations and party planning. <br><br>One one puppy remains as the others have gone to good local homes, a kitten has arrived - yay!! The chickens have ...

... or terraced farmland, provided stunning views, though the dirt road had no barriers along drops of hundreds of metres down. It had rained heavily shortly before our journey, which contributed to landslides and a muddy track. I was thankful to get back to the truck alive &#8211; at one stage the minivan slid across the road to miraculously stop on the edge of a straight drop down hundreds of metres. We held our ...

... Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this is not some kumabyaa singing church loving group, everyone is just a hardcore traveler and a lover of life. As I like to think of as myself. This kind of trip is called overland and classified as a camping trip, but it&#8217;s really not that bad. I&#8217;m not really a hard-core camper but the camping hasn&#8217;t been that bad. In the 7 or so nights on this trip, we have only had 2 nights in bush camping where all the ...

... boat again as the dolphins move about. Finally we jumped in at the right time and it was an amazing sight to be so close to these lovely animals and watch them. We feel sorry for them, however, this is not a peaceful act being chased about by 5 or 6 boat loads of snorkeling tourists. Gavin felt like we were in the navy as we were being commanded to jump in and out of the boat so many times. There is no way I would go in water like that back ...

We ended up getting a private car to take us back to Mbale. All this means is that it's a guy that comes to pick us up and we didn't have to flag down a van. We fit seven people into an early 90s Toyota Carolla and were off. Once in Kampala I was blown away by the traffic. It reminded me a lot of China based on the volume of people but there is constant traffic jams ...

... water. Bikes are well used to carry everything from bananas, stacks of wood, papyrus, avocadoes, people etc, the riders have great balance. I will appreciate my washing machine more than ever now, having seen the women down at the river or a puddle washing their clothes and then using the ground or the hut roofs to dry everything. As the roads are so dusty their clothes must be permanently dusty too. The Ugandans in the country must be very fit too as they have to ...

Just as I left Rwanda not to return on this trip, I'll be doing similarly with Uganda early tomorrow. I've had a lot more time to get to grips with Uganda though have still seen only a marginal portion of the country. Ideally I'd have ventured further into the south-west and even forayed north a bit but there is always another trip! Uganda is a wonderful country - more than deserving of Churchill's description of it as the "Pearl of Africa". <br><br>Kampala is a big, dirty and ...

... most inaudible manner and kept hopping and dancing away down the aisles. It was all pretty entertaining and the singing and dancing was good fun!<br><br>Sarah took me to a local clinic after the service and I've been diagnosed with tonsillitis. I've had a bad throat for almost a week but was hoping it would clear up before it got pretty difficult to swallow anything. I'm on some antibiotics now so hopefully it'll clear up soon!

... so was turning up at night with no cash - a pretty dumb thing to do! The journey from Busia to Kampala was much smoother than the first leg except for when the bus almost crashed into a pack of baboons sitting in the middle of the road! The guesthouse turned out to be run by a group of nuns including sister Monica who was a baseball cap and t-shirt wearing, singing and dancing lady! Very comfortable place and good African food - tasty matoke (steamed green bananas), rice and pork.