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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I managed to get many of the Uganda photos uploaded, but it was a painful experience not to be attempted again in Cameroon.  So, more photos going online will need to wait until Kenya if they have someplace with good upload capabilities…  Here’s the link…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vagabondrick/sets/72157603945355528/

Chimps!!!

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Pamela and I traveled from Kampala to Fort Portal via matatu. It was a four hour drive on an excellent paved road through a beautiful section of Uganda (I have not seen any part of Uganda that is not beautiful) with green farms, forest and some rock outcroppings. We were packed into the back of the van with a total of 20 people during some of the trip although we were pretty comfortable on the back bench with just one other person. The woman next to us had some kind of health problem that caused a second chin to grow looking like a fleshy rhino horn protruding from her throat. I see a lot of these growths in Africa although this one was particularly pointy. They are not easy to look at. Halfway through the trip, we stopped at a village where people were prepared with food for sale. We had two skewers of meat (probably goat), two chipatis (fried flat bread) and sodas passed through the window costing about $3 total. This may have been the mzungu price, too! Ugandans think Pamela is Ugandan until she can’t speak Lugandan. I usually laugh by their confusion, but they are always glad to meet a Kenyan. We have seen that Pamela gets a better price although I really don’t mind paying the bumped charges especially in an impoverished country like Uganda. We hired a cab in Fort Portal to drive us the last 45 minutes up the mountain above the western Rift Valley’s crater lakes to Ndali Lodge. This is where we would enjoy the next three days and nights accessing Kibale NP and its primates.

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