Getting out of Kampala, Uganda
Yes, we’re lame. Yes, it’s been like a really long time since we’ve updated this lovely blog. And John is looking at pictures right now. So hopefully we’ll be able to update some stuff. Anyway…
We head to Jinja. The Source of the Nile. Cephaeus dropped us off at the Kampala Backpackers and then we took a ride to the minibus park and then a minibus to Jinja. To the Nile River Explorer Backpackers. Which we didn’t know they had a shuttle between the two backpackers until we saw a notice on the other end saying they had a shuttle. Just par for the course, I guess. It was only a couple of hours to Jinja so no great loss. So we check in and who do we see – Kristi & Kelly (probably botching their names) – our compadres from the 30 hour bus trip – they had been WAAAAY more productive than we had – then again, they had only 2 weeks left on their African part of their trip and we had, well, as long as we wanted – anyway, they were headed to the campsite and were just waiting for the shuttle – but we ended up going on the shuttle anyway because, we decided to Fly Across the Nile.
At the campsite they had this “wire” (actually a super-strong rope) going across the Nile. Kind of like a really long zip-line. After a guy went on a “trial run”, I decided I was going first. So I sat in the little harness and zipped across the Nile. About 3/4 of the way down this guy tossed me this buoy thing and I attached it to my strap deal and he pulled me the rest of the way by boat. It was really awesome. Not nearly as scary as Costa Rica. But maybe I’m just losing the fear of heights. HAHAHAHA!!!!!
After I got across John went Superman style. He thought it was just okay. Kind of fun. Whatever – I thought it was cool.
So anyway, we hung out for a while and then headed back to Jinja on boda-bodas. Which we hadn’t encountered before. Boda-bodas are these little mini-bike deals that have a seat on the back and you just hop on and get from place to place. Apparently they became popular because a bunch of people fled the Idie Amin regime to India where they’re popular. They were unbelievably scary to me at first but now they just seem to be a good way of getting around for short distances without luggage. Believe me, the without luggage part is a definite. But that story is for a later date…
We ate that night at a place called Gateley on the Nile. John had Pork Chops. He was in love. The food has been quite a bit better here than in Tanzania. Well, Western food anyway – bit more variety in starches here than in Tanzania. Anyway, that’s about it for Jinja – we headed to Bujagali Falls the next night with a promised bottle of wine for the girls…mmmmm, wine…
Tags: jinja, RTW Trip, Uganda
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