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Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala February 8th 2006

It has been a chore to find a reliable source for the INternet, but today we lucked out, and since we joined a "club" we will be checking in daily until we leave. In the meantime, check out Bill's blog at www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Nebraska-Bill for pictures and more reporting from him. miss you all, but having a GREAT TIME! Marie... read more

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala February 1st 2006

Writing from Kampala. We made it here about 10:00 last night and slept this morning until about 11:00 am. Sarah (Marie's daughter) and her husband, Nate, picked us up at the airport and drove us to their place. They have a great house with lots of room, and nice walled in yard with trees and shrubs, etc. and lots of birds. Last night we had quite a storm. Marie and I were so zonked out that we just thought it was rain and some thunder. But, when we awoke we saw that it blew furniture off the back porch and brought down a branch from their big palm tree. About 11:00 am while eating breakfast, all of a sudden there was a loud crash and sound of breaking glass ... inside the house. It turns out ... read more
Nate & Sarah
Tusker & Nellabar

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala January 28th 2006

It's two days until we leave for Africa ... running around frantically getting ready. Really nervous about taking a computer to Africa. We've heard that even cameras get stolen all the time. We've had our shots (Yellow fever, DPT boosters, cholera, tetanus, etc.). We were given a antimalarial prescription for Malarone, but at $190 for each of us we decided to use Doxycyclene ($9 total for the both of us). more later. ... read more

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala October 5th 2005

5 octobre 2006 De Nakuru à Kampala Nous quittons notre camping au bord du Lac Victoria, près de Nakuru pour la frontière ougandaise. Lac Victoria est le plus grand lac d’Afrique et le deuxième plus grand lac d’eau fraîche au monde. Il est effectivement très grand et trois pays se partagent ses eaux soit le Kenya, où nous sommes, la Tanzanie et l’Ouganda où nous nous dirigeons. Nous nous levons à 4 h 45 car nous avons beaucoup de route à faire avant d’arriver à Kampala, la capitale de l’Ouganda. Nous arrivons à la frontière ougandaise à 9 h 40. Nous attendons dans le camion pendant 2 heures pour traverser. Il y a du monde partout. Personnes et sacs de marchandises sont installés sur des vélos, sur un petit coussin installé derrière la selle et il ... read more
Vue de la route
Enfants ougandais
En panne

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala May 31st 2005

Africa was always going to be the working part of the trip! We were heading to Uganda, Kampala to visit Watoto Child Care Ministries and then Rwanda to visit our Compassion children and that was about all of our planning! We knew that we were in Africa from the first moment at the check in counter in Cairo. Kenya Airways had lost our reservation, despite the fact that we had seats allocated! So onto standby we go... pointing out that it is midnight! We were the first in a long line of standbyers - all of whom had the same story as us so we were feeling pretty good that we would get onto the flight! However we then got our next reality check that we were now in Africa - everyone behind us in the ... read more

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala June 20th 2003

Kampala was a bustling city with a huge minibus park very close to where we were staying. We visited many travel agents in an attempt to get a cheap flight to London, but ended up with a not so cheap one flying in about a weeks time. We also booked our tour to go mountain gorilla tracking in Magahinga National Forest. $250 to track gorillas for an hour was the last splash of the trip and we couldn't pass up on the unique opportunity that many travelers before us had recommended highly. After taking a little break and going to the Cinema in Kampala to see Matrix Reloaded we got up infeasible early to get a bus to Kisoro. ... read more

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala April 15th 2003

...had a 200kg Silverback Gorilla throw a tree at you? No?! Well, we have. You want more details?!?! Well, OK then... We spent an awesome hour watching a family of gorillas in Ugandas Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. There was the mighty silverback, blackbacks, females, juveniles and a three month old baby. They were wandering round the undergrowth feeding, and we were hacking our way through the undergrowth trying to watch them. There were three people in our group (a maximum of six are allowed to watch any one group per day), along with a guide, three trackers and three armed guards. The hike into the forest was not easy, but well worth it. We would have paid again the next day to see the gorillas a second time if we had the cash on us! Hopefully ... read more
We're all happy campers after our gorilla trip
Around Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Tea fields and pickers, Buhoma




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