Ok, so I know Ugandans are polite. So much so that I usually feel like a badly dressed potato around them. But the amount of messages I got after arriving me to Kabale, asking if I was alright, seemed kind of extreme, even for Ugandan standards. But then my colleague Paul told that people weren't just polite, they were asking quite literally if I had survived the trip. Looking at Ugandan road statistics, actually not a surprising question. I know I'm a spoiled European and all that, and that I cannot expect the same level of comfort than at home, blablabla. [View Full Entry]

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Day 10; 17.06.09 Ruhengeri; Rwanda - Kabale; Uganda An early departure from Ruhengeri and we were at the Rwandan / Ugandan boarder in about a half hour. We´ve quickly come to realise that if there´s a boarder involved then nothing is simple in Africa. Our crossing was supposed to be as easy as getting from a to b, however there always seems to be some jumped up boarder official wanting their payoff before allowing you to get to b! So after paying the corrupt pen pusher $50 for an unwanted duplcate stamp in our passport, it was on to Kabale where [View Full Entry]

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It's a short journey back to Kabale from Lake Bunyonyi. As I wait for my taxi, I idly glance over a map showing the districts of Uganda and am surprised to find that more than a quarter of them begin with K. I stay a couple of nights in Kabale. The Golan Heights hotel appeals because of its incongruous name but I choose a funky hostel that has wifi. Once again, travellers are in the minority, though there are plenty of volunteers. Kabale is swarming with bicycle boda bodas in numbers I've never seen before. I meet a Scottish couple who [View Full Entry]

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My first glimpse of mountain gorillas at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park made the high prices and the journey to get here so worthwhile. I’d left Masaka a week earlier by Post Bus, having failed (twice) to see Shoebills. The Post Buses literally carry post and passengers between post offices along a route. Unusually, or so I was told, the bus I was waiting for was over 2 hours late due to a breakdown. The time was filled by a Ugandan woman occasionally striking up conversation with me: it’s not the first time in my life that I have been asked, “Are [View Full Entry]

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beste bloggers en andere aanverwanten, Waarom,Waarom nu pas de volgende editie van "de avontuuren van cor en aar cola" welnu onze tijdelijke woonplaats Montreal,Canada gaat gebukt onder weersverschijnselen zoals:ijsregens stormen en huul vuul sneeuw dit alles gaat gepaard met gemiddelde temperatuur van 20 graden onder nul. en dan doe je maar 1 ding BINNENZITTEN! en dan vallen de blogjes toch een beetje tegen (zie voorbeeld) maandag: binnengezeten dinsdag : ook binnengezeten woensdag: uitgeslapen en daarna binnengezeten donderdag: enz. Zoals je ziet niet echt een basis voor een [View Full Entry]

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Day 262- DRIVE DAY (28/12/08) Our time was up at Lake Buoyoni, time to pack up tents and get back on the truck. We stopped again at Kabale opting for a coffee in place of being harassed throughout town. Back on the truck we filled the time napping, reading and talking amongst ourselves before arriving at our first bush camp (no toilets, no showers, no running water... just a place to put up the tent!), where we’d previously stopped for lunch with the sponsored local family. After a game of Yahtzee the kids had soon arrived to watch the Musungu's. Opting [View Full Entry]

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We had a reasonably easy border crossing into Uganda wish I could say the same for the 'roads'. We could easily have been driving through the middle of fields judging by the speed we could go and the pot holes (some the size of a large dog). The difference between Kenya and Uganda was immediately obvious and incredible. The houses were round thatched mud huts in the middle of banana plantations, people on the side of the road seemed more aloof with only a few waving at us as we went by. Our first stop was Kampala, the capital. Our first [View Full Entry]

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hey all the internet here sucks ass so this will be a short one. weve survived the first few days on our own and are now in the south of uganda in a town called kabale. we were up close and personal with black and white colubus monkeys which was amazing. theyre so silly. were heading out again in a few days to go golden monkey tracking and cave exploring...talk to you all soon!!! It's Shannon now, I'm going to fill in a couple details. We stayed at this super cool community campsite the last couple days and it was awesome, [View Full Entry]

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I’ve come to the end here in Kabale - an end-of-the-line town just a few miles from the Rwandan border - and just minutes after arriving on the Post Bus from Mbarara, I’m desperate to get to Kigali. Maybe the low, brooding skies have cast this town in unflattering shades of gray; maybe I’m cranky and have a stomach ache and ought to know better about first impressions. But after a quick walk around town to mix with the locals, holding my nose against the pestilential smell, I can say with confidence that this is the most depressing place I’ve seen [View Full Entry]

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Danes je zadnji dan, ko bom zapisala: voda je! Ampak ker ni bilo elektrike, seveda ni bilo tople vode. Kljub vsemu mi je hrabrost omogocila, da sem si pod malo pipco umila lase, ker je bila ze res kriza. Ker je bilo se dokaj zgodaj - okoli pol devete ure - sem sla malo naokoli s koncnim ciljem Royal Supermarket. Vzela sem s sabo fotic in malo pofotkala zaspane nedeljske Kabale. Zanimiva scena, celo do te mere, da je bil Royal se zaprt. Zato sem sla pac do ta drugega in ugotovila, da voda stane enako - liter in pol za [View Full Entry]

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