Up and on the road by 5:30am to catch the big bus out of Ft. Portal down to Kabale which is where Lake Bunyonyi is (close to Rwanda and Congo). Bus arrived around 8:00am, actually left around 9:30am… I love getting…
Fort Portal, Uganda – Day 172
“The Fort” as they call Fort Portal. Though quite different from the Fort I grew up in. Town didn’t have a lot to offer beyond a dirt strip through the center (in my opinion… girls seemed to like it more…
Kampala, Uganda – Day 167
Kampala is an incredibly green and hilly city; it’s fairly safe to walk around, even at night. An overhead map of it looks like a bowl of spaghetti and as a result it has some of the worst traffic problems…
Jinja, Uganda – Day 162
Ride to the border in Kenya was FANTASTIC (comparitively speaking of course); crossing was a breeze (although we later found out that a friend we met from Ireland almost went to jail for smoking at the border). First thing I…
Kisumu, Kenya – Day 160
Kisumu is Kenya’s 3rd largest city and sits on the northshore of Lake Victoria. The ride there was horrific, to put it lightly. Were supposed to get a big bus, but it never turned up from Nairobi so we crammed…
Lake Naivasha, Kenya – Day 156
Plane back from Lamu to Nairobi was delayed 3 hours; sat there at the outdoor airport in the 42C heat 🙁 Fun. Got to Nairobi and watching the news found out there was an airplane crash at the airport that…
Lamu, Kenya – Day 145
Getting into Nairobi from Addis turned out to be a tremendously easy day of travel, contrary to what I expected – no need to show vaccination cards, or proof of exiting at the airport like we were told we’d need…