So we arrived in Kampala in rush hour only took us two and half hours to travel 50kms but it was awesome saw so much of Ugandans just get up and travelling to work and school! Some of the kids start at 7am brutal! Luckily we arrived at the guesthouse and we just crashed!
After a much needed four hour nap we grabbed some boda bodas down to garden city (a sanctuary for mzungos) boda bodas are awesome, so dangerous but the best way to see anywhere! Dandered around garden city for a while its so divided its like economic apartheid - most ugandans could never afford most of the stuff in the shops and when you see the golf course behind it and the slums not far away it boggles the mind. But kampala is still an amzing city after a devastating war twenty years ago and various brutal dictators its impressive how far it has come. We didnt realise its magnitude until we came over a hill in the muslim district which revealed the whole city far bigger than Belfast and taller buildings!
We took a walk about yesterday around fields of life beautiful scenery but unbelievably hot! Dave got propositioned by a prostitute and thankful said no before chris introduced himself! The food is really good somehow everything over here tastes so good fanta, pineapples, davids feet amazing I know.
Dave has been building up contacts for his research something I should be doing but Chris said boda boda and I said yes! What could go wrong! Randomily met a girl from Armagh and girl from Cavan who had just come up from Rwanda and had just met Joy McMullen its a small small world afterall! After we took a random stroll around the city found the parliament so blagged our way in then headed over to random govt building chris wanted a ugandan rugby t-shirt so obviously the ministry of education and sport would have one. Found a randomily open door so we went in started wandering around. Some guard spotted us and shouted at us asking what we were doing but said we were looking for the sports minister so the guard told us to go round the corner. We thought we would get out before we got arrested! But Chris and I still wandered around trying to get sneaking pictures of armed men what could happen!?
Our bus to Rwanda was full so had to get boda boda to another company on the otherside of the city so we used random boda bodas instead of the ones we knew - mistake. I dont know where they drove us but it was scary they flew, with two very close near accidents. Iit was crazy as chris disappeared for a good bit and thought we were going to be dumped somewhere but we got there after a few prayers!
Got our orginal boda bodas to pick us up was so glad to see moses didnt think those other guys would get us back alive!
Heading to rwanda in the loveable hour of 3am to arrive after 12pm fun!
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