Back to Uganda

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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 we stayed in a camp site around the back of a bakery (reminded me of a prison excersise yard). Michelle was again on cook group and we had a very bland macharoni cheese (not michelles fault as she was limited on the cheese we could use) and the night was finished with an improptue truck party, which was a good laugh!

Day 11; 18.06.09
Kabale; Uganda - Bush Camp; Uganda
Drive day, so everyone could catch up on sleep after a heavy night previous. We were on our way to Kampala and had to stop at the Bush Camp we stayed at on day 5. Pretty boring day today!

Day 12; 19.06.09
Bush Camp; Uganda - Kampala; Uganda
Left the bush camp early to get to ´Red Chillis´ in Kampala (Uganda´s capital), arrived at about 2ish and it was straight to the showers after going a few days without. After the much needed shower and beer it was dinner and then off out to the city and an ´irish´ bar called ´bubbles o´learys´, one of the most bizzare things ever. Standing in an African/Irish bar that doesn´t sell Guiness surrounded by prostitutes.

Day 13; 20.06.09
Free Day - Red Chillis; Kampala; Uganda
Went into the city and the notorious Kampala Market, where you can apparently buy anything! All we seemed to find was rotten food and ex charity shop clothes! This wasnt the nicest of places, smelly, claustrophobic, intimidating but still an experience, made even more memorable as thís is where we realised what Muzungo means; White. Everywhere we went we had pointing and grabing and shouting ¨Muzungo!¨¨MUZINGO!!¨ from kids, women, guys all seeing us as dollar signs or freaks, quite unnerving but I guess it would have been naive to come here and not expect to feel like a minority!

Day 14; 21.06.09
Kampala; Uganda - Jinja; Uganda
Half of our group left early to go white water rafting on the Nile, whilst the other half (including me and chelle) got a bit of a lay in and then made our way to our next camp in Jinja, we arrived at the camp at around midday and set the tent up (twice, didn´t like our original location), this camp had some fantastic views over the Nile and the beer was also reasonably priced! After some food the rest of our group turned up and we all headed to the bar where we watched the dvd of their white water rafting experience, it looked like fun but a tad expensive this time round. Later that night we all got very drunk and sung ´living on a prayer´ about 6 times before bed. Good night in all!

Day 15; 22.06.09
Free Day - Jinja
We used the morn and early afternoon of our free day to visit a local primary school, the kids were very excitable and literally fought each other to hold our hand. After they gave us a song we sat in there class and compleatly disrupted their class as they seemed more interested in trying to rub off our tattoos than learn their ABC´s! After about an hour here it was on the project centre where schools around the area come to learn about computers and do things there own schools probably cant afford. After our tour of the centre we were then picked up by cattle truck and transported to another local school that we agreed to volunteer at by painting the buildings white and blackboards... black. After hours of hard graft painting the buildings, god thought it would be funny to give us our first taste of rain in Africa, hard, torrencial rain, that I was convinced would wash away everthing we´d done! Luckily it didnt and we were soon back in the cattle truck sliding across the road. When we got back it was straight to the nearest chapati vendor for some fast food!

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Comments

[Mum]

Brilliant!
Absolutely love reading the blog, keep it up, want to know what happened next.xxxxx

[Rob (Dad)]

what no Guiness
Sounds like my kind of bar do you get a chance to go large with the chapati vendor? your both so lucky.