En Route

Busses and Smells

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July 7th 2009
We got up nice and early and showered today. Then everyone loaded into the taxi and the Toyota and we headed out. It was quite scattered, to be perfectly honest. Once we finally got everyone in the vehicles (which was rushed by my yelling in Luganda), we started in to town. Sarah and I got dropped off just in time to get on the bus to Rwanda. Originally, we were going to fly to Kigali to sa ... read more

Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Kampala

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Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,0... ... read more