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Jinja Jan and a sneak preview of an amazing new lodge
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 31 August 2010
My finances had dried up and I wasn’t looking forward to staying in all week-end with only 10,000 shillings (£3) to survive on until payday this week. After only 3 sessions, the English conversation class I’ve been giving has been put on hold.
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Kampala to Jinja relay 2010
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 9 August 2010
Map of the route that gives the quite correct impression that 1) there were indeed lots of hills and 2) our collective blood pressure would rise and fall like the proverbial yo-yo, endin
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Nile Horseback Safaris/ Ride like the wind
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 10 January 2010
One of the reasons I took riding lessons in Johannesburg was so that I could hop on a horse and ride through the countryside–a bonus would be to ride through a foreign countryside as a means of exploration. On New Years day, two of the other girls (both horse riders) and I took on a [...]
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Jinja/ Lip syncing dancers
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 8 January 2010
Our group was staying at the Adrift base camp in Jinja for our entire time there, and the accommodation was fine. Adrift offers grass space for campers (which is typically filled with the overland bus groups), dorms with bunk beds ($10/night), safari tents (large room-like tents, containing foam beds, $40/night) and small wooden chalets overlooking [...]
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Team Vengeance/ Day 2-3 rafting
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 6 January 2010
The second day of rafting would be more chilled out, we were told; there were only 6 rapids to ride in a much shorter distance than the day before. The start to the day was less chilled, however–a rooster woke us up announcing the dawn, and just wouldn’t shut up. Suitably exhausted from interrupted sleep [...]
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Base Camp Adrift, Jinja/ Day 1 rafting
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 4 January 2010
We arrived in Entebbe International Airport, Uganda, at 7:30pm, just as the sun was setting over Lake Victoria and the Ssese Islands. The eleven of us were picked up by the rafting company, Adrift, and arrived at rafting headquarters sometime after 11pm. We settled into the dorms and greeted our rafting guides, Camo and Jeffry [...]
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Moses Could Part the Red Sea with His Abs
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 29 September 2009
9/16/09: Nile River, Uganda There have been days where I’ve woken up and thought, “Today’s going to be a really good day – a new episode of Survivor is on!” Don’t get me wrong – those are really good days. This morning though, I woke up to the thought, “Today I’m going to white water raft the [...]
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s a Bird!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 27 September 2009
9/15/09: Jinja, Uganda I think I speak for everyone who was there when I say I have a new hero. We had paid our 3,000 Uganda Shillings ($1.50) apiece to hike down to the first class 5 rapid that we will raft over tomorrow on the Nile. After a short trek from our campsite, we arrived at [...]
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Catching a Moment as it Flies By
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 26 September 2009
9/15/09: Jinja, Uganda There are lots of things that go on each day that I want to write about but don’t, like: when I accidentally stepped on a flamingo skull at Lake Nakuru how Kevin decided he should be in charge of all of our important documents because I tend to lose things and then I tested him [...]
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We Must Be Here, Or We’re In Denial
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 25 September 2009
9/14/09: Jinja, Uganda Zhou and I have a long trip ahead of us, so we are closely monitoring what we spend. When the opportunity was brought up a couple days ago for us to join some of our group in white water rafting the Nile for $125 per person, we politely declined. Today we reached the source [...]
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