Blogs from Kabale, Western Region, Uganda, Africa - page 3

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 in nearly three months in Uganda. Great hills of garbage tower over the road, piles of trash smolder in the back alleys. Kids with cracked, ashy feet beg for change, their eyes lost in a ... read more

Zjutraj se nam je prikazala - ne, ne Marija, no, skorajda - voda! Baje je prisla ze prejsnji vecer, ampak ker smo prehitro podlegli, tega cudeza nismo docakali. Po ah in oh tusu je sledil na izi zajtrk, potem pa so pocasi zaceli kapljati udelezenci. Hudo! Ob 10.15 se nas je tako nagnetlo v coffee room kar zajetno stevilo poslusalcev in predavateljic (!): Mankica, Marjut, Kesse (ki sem jo vceraj po nerodnem preimenovala Cathy) in jaz. Nekaj uvodnih besed je povedal Miha, potem pa predal besedo nam. Ali bolje receno meni. Stala! Najprej sem jih skusala zabavati in animirati z definicijami oz. "definicijami" novinarstva in novinarjev, govorili smo tudi o stilu porocanja, o konkretnih primerih, o kupovanju informacij, o vojnem porocanju (ker je bila Kesse ravno v Keniji), o vsem zivem ... res o vsem vsem ... read more

Mmmmmmmm. Postelja. Mmmmmm. Spali sva do kaksnih pol devetih in se pocasi prebudili v dokaj soncno nedeljo. Neverjetno: obema se zdi, da sva tukaj ze sto let, ker se je zgodilo milijon drobnih in ogromnih stvari, v resnici pa sva tu le teden in en dan. Bizarno. Staff se tudi üe ni dobro prebudil, zato sva prve jutranje trenutke izkoristili za internet. Sledil je zajtrk, meni je pripadla palacinka z banano in medom. In indijski caj. RES se nama ni nic dalo, zato sem jaz oprala perilo, Mankica pa lase (pri njeni dolzini je to zares podvig!), tudi kartice sem spisala. Hudo. Okoli poldneva sva sli malo po mestu. Najprej v hot loaf shop cez cesto, da pocekirava, kaj se tocno tam prodaja. Mmmmm, imajo res hude sladice! Od danish peciva do res pravih tort (sicer ... read more

Prejsnji vecer so nas posvarili, da lahko naokoli lomastijo nilski konji, ampak na sreco nas ni nic pomendralo, tako da smo se v jutro zbudili v enem kosu - in to ze ob nekaj cez cest, ko je Sampo zacel rjuti naokoli naso budnico. Jebiga, za sprehod skozi park vse. Zapeljali smo se malo bolj proti vhodu, dobili vodnika Jamesona in vzeli pot pod noge med divjino. Lake Muro je menda edini park, kjer se lahko nemoteno sprehajas. In imeli smo kaj videti! Najprej ze omenjene imapel, zebre, divje svinje, pticev mnogo ... Noro! Najvecji podvig je bil seveda spet izogibati se sranju, ki je bil med gosto visokoraslo travo kar dobro zakamufliran, ampak ... jebiga. Splezali smo se na nek hrib, da smo se lahko divili nad razgledom, in v daljavi uzrli celo neke najvecje ... read more

Situated in the Southwestern corner of Uganda close to the Rwandan and Congolese border, lake Bunyoni is rumoured to be 'the' place to chill when passing through Uganda on the way to or from Rwanda so we thought we'd pop in. We'd had lots of recommendations for different places on the lake but Byoona Amagara kept popping up again and again so we decided to plump for that one. Arrival at the lake is along a Kenyan quality road up and down a steep sided valley, which presents you with a fantastic view of the Northern end of the lake (I think) before arriving at Rutinda market village. Byoona Amagara is on an island - so they kindly provide guests with a free boat ride to said island. However they neglect to mention "self-powered" until you're ... read more