http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Uganda , Western Region , Kabale en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 07:40:08 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 07:40:08 +0000 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 stat http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-451126.html Day 10 17.06.09Ruhengeri Rwanda Kabale Uganda An early departure from Ruhengeri and we were at the Rwandan Ugandan boarder in about a half hour. Weve quickly come to realise that if theres 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-415103.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-405449.html My first glimpse of mountain gorillas at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park made the high prices and the journey to get here so worthwhile.Irsquod 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-374543.html Day 262 DRIVE DAY 281208Our 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 te http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-371934.html beste bloggers en andere aanverwantenWaaromWaarom nu pas de volgende editie van de avontuuren van cor en aar cola welnu onze tijdelijke woonplaats MontrealCanada gaat gebukt onder weersverschijnselen zoalsijsregens 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 be http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-368804.html 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 p http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-315713.html hey allthe 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-276066.html Irsquove come to the end here in Kabale an endoftheline town just a few miles from the Rwandan border and just minutes after arriving on the Post Bus from Mbarara Irsquom desperate to get to Kigali. Maybe the low brooding skies have cast this town in unflattering shades of gray maybe Irsquom cranky and have a stomach ache and ought to know better about first impressions. But after http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-268592.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-247290.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-245948.html Bad news Mankica je zbolela. Zjutraj ji je bilo slabo kar se je manifestiralo v hrani ki gre v nasprotno smer. Fasala je tudi nekaj vrocine ampak je bilo po oralni seansi mnogo bolje. Tako da je odlezala cel dan in bila do poznega popoldneva ze cisto ok. A s tem tezav se ni bilo konec. Nekaj je crvicilo tudi Aljoso in Pamelo Mihatovo zeno tako da je moralo biti nekaj v zraku ali pac v hran http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-245540.html 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 e ni dobro prebudil zato sva prve jutranje trenutke izkoristili za internet. Sledil je zajtrk meni je pripadla palacinka z http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-244831.html Zjutraj je bilo spet vse bolj na easy ceprav sem ustala ob 8h in se v jutranjem soncu pogumno podala pod tus. Juhej Spet cistoca. Drugi dan zapored. Je to mogoce Tokrat sem bila pravocasna za zajtrk in konkretno sem se nazrla ananasa in papaje. Nikoli ne ves kdaj jih lahko zmanjka.Zakaj je bilo za naju vse skupaj bolj na easy je razlog v tem da ne greva na canoe trekking ki traja http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-244433.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-244412.html Winston Churchill labelled it 'the Pearl of Africa' probably after sinking one too many gin Martinis but despite the rampant poverty and tragic history Uganda does have a charm all of its own. The country is famous for all the wrong reasons most people when they hear the name think instantly of good ol' Idi Amin and his reign of terror or if they are more of a current affairs buff per http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-203636.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-199586.html We arrived at Lake Bunyoni near Kabale on tuesday afternoon and set up our tents. We then proceeded to have a big party as often seems to happen when we arrive at a new campsite I guess we always need to test the bar out Most of the group had to get up the next day to move on to Rwanda to trek the gorillas but as I and one other from my truck had decided not to we spent the day relaxin http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-171864.html Up and on the road by 530am to catch the big bus out of Ft. Portal down to Kibali which is where Lake Bunyonyi is close to Rwanda and Congo. Bus arrived around 800am actually left around 930am... I love getting up before the sun for no real reason in fact I didn't even get a seat on the bus and had to sit on the floor for 3 or more hours. Was so late because of something to do with the gov http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-148133.html HelloThink I left off where we were being escorted to the taxi by the police in Gesengyi From here we just wanted to get the hell out of Rwanda so crossed the border to Kabale back in Uganda. Here we stayed at lake Bunyoni a massive lake in the mountains with 27 islands. We stayed on a little island called Byoona Amargara a secrect hideway not in the travel guides. Its a community developme http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Kabale/blog-146772.html