http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Uganda , Eastern Region en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:05:55 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:05:55 +0000 Irsquom traveling now with Dror one of the Israelis I met in Tanzania few months ago.Dror and I are like twins who got separated at birth we have the same personality only exactly the opposite characterhellip.So we went to sipi falls. Beautiful spot amazing views mountains. All I wanted to do is sit on the balcony and watch the fallshellipAll he wanted to do is go and swim in the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-462261.html hello i hope everyone had an amazing thanksgiving ate lots of turkey and had fun shopping last thursday for thanksgiving this guy in bungoma invited us to his restaurant for his thanksgiving buffet he fixes every year for any americans that are in the area. i did not have my hopes set high for this meal so i was very pleasantly surprised when the food was delicious i was expecting the sam http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-457150.html I'm usually not a big fan of expressions a la 'you haven't lived when you haven't done this or you haven't done that...'. 'You haven't lived if you haven't hurtled yourself down a mountain at breakneck speed killing a few innocent passersby on the way'. 'You haven't lived if haven't gone hitchhiking around the planet and almost killed by some Congolese soldiers high on heroin'. And you think 'I http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-453831.html yes mom and dad i went to Uganda this weekend. and i'm now back in kenya safe and sound but seriously this weekend was probably one of the coolest things i've ever done. i went white water rafting on the Nile i can't even begin to describe how amazing it was. first of all we were in Jinja Uganda and it was soo beautiful ...huge hills so much green trees and flowers we went through http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-450162.html Blog Entry October 28 2009 Nov. 2ndItrsquos been ages since I last wrote Things have really picked up here at work. Lindsey and I have had the opportunity to go out into the field more and wersquove expanded our health communication project. I think one of my favorite trips was visiting the beneficiaries of TASOrsquos ldquoTrickle Uprdquo program which funds agribusiness startups http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-450111.html Leaving the gorillas behind we exit Rwanda and retrace our route back through Uganda to Jinja an adventure capital at the source of the great River Nile. Having seen the gorillas we were now able to eat meat wersquod avoided eating anything remotely dodgy beforehand as those with the slightest sign of illness arenrsquot allowed to trek so we happily tucked into goat and chicken at the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-428932.html Greetings all SO as the title states I have a little over two weeks left. So time has passed both slow and fast. I have become quite acclimatized to this place. I can preform all the duties in the lab with ease and don't feel out of place at all here. They are such welcoming people here...I would definitely recomend anyone to come here to Uganda. I feel as though maybe I left a few thing http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-426945.html here is some photos hopefully they will load and be visible... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-420533.html Hey everyone So this Saturday I went with some of my Hospital mates to Sipi Falls. Its 45 min drive outside of Mbale heading towards Kapchorwa at the base of Mt. Elgon. The trip was sensational. We walked for over 4 hours touring the area and looking at the 3 falls. The first and largest water fall can be seen from the Lodge where started from. We got some pictures at the lodge overlooking th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-420005.html Back in April I made my first trip to Jinja east of Kampala to see the source of the Nile River. I went with my students on a geography field trip and had so much fun Of course the source of the Nile is Lake Victoria which is unusual since a lake is normally not considered the source of a river. The source is normally the major river that feeds into the lake. But for Lake Victoria http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-418830.html Hello All So everyone knows i'm in Africa but maybe not who I came here with. The group I came with is called CURE. They are an institution many that deal in Pediatric Neurosurgery at least this one here in Uganda does. If you want to read more about it go to... www.CUREinternational.org or just typr in CURE international in a search engine and it should show up...so everyone take a loo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-416834.html Hello to All well one week is down and there are to go...but who's counting right...haha...most of you know I am because I have a beautiful girl waiting for me back home... Ok to the real buisness...my first week... Its been really great here in the lab this first week. I have become more comfortable with the practices going on here. I think i posted about the blood collection in my previou http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-416458.html Itrsquos hard to believe but Irsquom now at the end of week four of my seven weeks in Uganda. The past few weeks have been incredibly busy both with work and socialising Access to the internet is limited and power has been pretty erratic so Irsquom grabbing an opportunity to upload this now and have another entry halfwritten to follow soon. Struggling with photos at present as the up http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Bujagali-Falls/blog-414826.html So i got a computer to post on finally... Well I got into Uganda on monday. Stayed a a little place in Entebbe that was really something. Looked like a place out of a jungle mansion but smaller. It was really nice. Tuesday morning i headed to Mbale in a rickety old toyota corolla. Let me tell you that was an experience. Along the way my driver was pulled over by the highway police that c http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/blog-413988.html On the way back through Uganda we stopped again in Kampala and stayed at the same campsite as before. It was my turn for cook group again and the dinner was a great success I feel like I am growing up so muchIn Kampala the group went out to an Irish Pub that didn't even have Guinness on tap It was a lot of fun. We danced and I drank Sapphire Tonics with ice which was very lucky treat. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-412712.html Itrsquos midafternoon Irsquove finished work and had a lazy late lunch overlooking the Nile and now Irsquom settling in outside my banda for the afternoon in the shade to do some writingreadingthinking dozing. Irsquom starting to settle into a nice African pace of life now and getting to know the area a little better.Sunday began with a guided walk around the village led by Muganda http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-407247.html Irsquom trying to avoid sounding like a stuck record banging on about contrasts but have I experienced some over the past 24 hours Joburg to Entebbe Ugandarsquos airport is only a fourhour flight north so I was glad of the checkin time at the start to process some of my experiences and prepare for the next stage of the adventure. And by huge astonishing coincidence I bumped into C http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-407246.html Leaving Banana VillageWe had no appointments to make on Wednesday morning and so after checking out of Banana Village and a very leisurely breakfast we set off down the Entebbe road towards Kampala. The Ugandan people were all very busy going about their daily lives which provided some great scenery on our journey. The people are sop enterprising it seems all of them are trying to make a living http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-393652.html Wow I canrsquot believe it has taken me this long to post the blog about the one of greatest experiences here in Africa. It has been about three weeks now since 12 other group members and I traveled to Uganda to go whitewater rafting down the Nile River. We left for our adventure on a Thursday night. Going by bus over night from Nairobi to Jinja in Uganda. The trip was about 10 hours long with http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-387311.html We crossed the border this past weekend to Uganda and rafted the Nile River from where it is released from Lake Victoria. It was a day long trip of white water rafting complete with four class 5 rapids one class 6 rapid unraftable crocodiles backpackers and everyone getting dumped from the raft. The Nile has some of the best rafting in the world not just because of the extreme drop in elev http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-375130.html