Safety kayak

Head of the Nile

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June 7th 2006
May 31, 2006 - Day 46 - Up at 4:30am today. All day driving again. Finished Dragon and started reading I choose to live, a true story by a kidnap survivor. Horrifying but good. Today we drove into Uganda and got the $30 visa instead of the transit visa for $15 because Matt was unprepared and didn't have the information we needed to do it right. We stopped in Kampala, the capital and headed into th ... read more

Africa » Uganda

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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