Blogs from Kampala, Central Region, Uganda, Africa - page 7

As a truck thunders towards you, you soon realize you are in a game of chicken. In a country where the largest vehicle has right of way, the Boda-boda hits his horn, swerving into oncoming traffic. You close your eyes and pray, hoping to escape with your life. On entering Kampala you are amazed to see complete mayhem on the roads. As thousands of motorbikes swerve in and out of traffic you realize the road rules are simple. Larger vehicles have right of way, unless of-course you are a fearless Boda-boda driver. As you climb on-board your Boda-boda with sixty litre backpack, day-pack and tent, you struggle to balance on the back of the motorbike. As the driver takes you through potholes, between trucks, and across sidewalks, you learn why five people die in road accidents ... read more

Hello all 2 flights, 2 curries, a pizza, 12 hours later with not much sleep and we have arrived in Uganda! The flights were... fine, the curries were not, the pizza was good the lack of sleep not so much. We were met by Francis and Ian and got on our way to join the others for more food. It's about an hour drive into Kampala from Entebbe airport which gave us a great oppurtunity to look out the window and soak up the culture. We were pretty speachless by what we saw... chicken, cows, goats, pigs are all animals I previously have looked after and it is strange to see them eating out of rubish piles, ankole cows with huge horns walking alongside people cutting through traffic and the poverty was unbelievably bad. We met ... read more

Hello all! Sorry it has been a while since I have written an entry but I've been quite busy in Uganda. Let me just say, this place is AMAZING. I have been here for almost 3 weeks now. Wow! So because of our busy schedule and the fact that the power here goes out all the time I hardly ever get a long computer sesh. So basically there are all these issues with the government and the electric companies and so they turn the power off every day at some point, its so annoying and thus disables me from getting on here regularly. So I pray that this blog makes it and im not cut off! But who knows. Well I guess if you are reading this then it made it, so Praise God! Anyway so ... read more

It has been a great 2 months and 4 countries traveling with "The Wolfpack" (Us and 2.5 Israelis and a .5 South African) in a bakkie named Ian. While Ian liked to break down as much as dalla dalla, boda boda, or motola we still had a great time. The animals were amazing, sunsets breathtaking, diarrhea consistent, and the laughs endless. ... read more

Na de wandeltocht op Mount Kenya op naar de start van mijn tour met Intrepid! In Nairobi hadden we een meeting met de groep en reisleider. Ik had deze tour vooral uitgezocht vanwege het perfecte reisschema, maar het was leuk om te ontdekken, dat deze organisatie heel erg veel waarde hecht aan verantwoordelijk reizen. Bepaalde activiteiten, die schadelijk zijn voor de omgeving of voor de bevolking werden ons bijvoorbeeld afgeraden, water werd gezuiverd, zodat we niet steeds nieuwe flessen hoefden te kopen en we kregen een linnen tas, die we mee konden nemen naar de supermarkt met daarop de tekst "say no to plastic". De groep bestond uit 22 personen uit Australie, Nieuw-Zeeland, US, Canada, Engeland, Schotland, Ierland en Zwitserland, dus deze weken geen Nederlands voor mij, wat perfect was om mijn Engels weer eens bij ... read more