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Couchsurfing Uganda: A Mzungu in the Midst (Part 2)
Blog: GoBackpacking - 29 October 2009
Post by new contributor Lindsay Clark of Nomadderwhere. The first mission of the day was to make it to the city, as the locals do, wandering up weaving lames and jumping garbage heaps until Entebbe road appeared, in all its smoggy splendor. On the way, I began to re-experience the wonder of being a walking [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Couchsurfing Uganda: A Mzungu in the Midst
Blog: GoBackpacking - 28 October 2009
...my drive from the airport got me closer to the real Uganda...Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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If You Speak Dutch, Go Read Another Blog
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 9 October 2009
9/23/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda to Kampala, Uganda The first two weeks of our tour will literally get us nowhere. Today we will begin our journey back to where we started: Nairobi, Kenya. Including today, we will do three all-day drives over the beyond bumpy Ugandan and Kenyan roads. Each morning we will wake up just after [...]
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Give Me Banana!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 8 October 2009
9/22/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda A few of the members in our tour group decided to go on a “village walk” today. There have been village walks offered at a few of the places we’ve stayed at – you get a tour of the village, visiting one or two homes and generally seeing how the people there [...]
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Be Prepared to Wait 15 Minutes or the Rest of Your Life
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 7 October 2009
9/21/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda Sometimes it’s good to take a day off. Today we did just that. We did laundry, caught up with the blog, read, and I wrote in my journal. In Africa though, even in days off, we experience many things unlike we ever have before. A few highlights from today: Laundry: Drying laundry is [...]
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What’s Better Than One Gorilla Post?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 6 October 2009
9/20/09: Nkuringo, Uganda This is a gorillapod. It’s nice, lightweight and will definitely come in handy when Zhou and I don’t have anyone nearby to take photos of us around the world. This is a gorilla pod. See the difference a space makes? … Zhou described much of our experience in yesterday’s post, but I feel it bears repeating from my [...]
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Gorillas, or Why Zhou and Kevin Came to Africa
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 5 October 2009
9/20/09: Nkuringo, Uganda When Kevin and I planned this trip, the one thing at the very top of my must-do list was to see the gorillas. I wanted to see gorillas more than I wanted to do anything else. More than Machu Picchu, more than the pyramids, more than the Himalayas, even more than Thailand [...]
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I’m a Wimp and a Better Person Because of It
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 4 October 2009
9/19/09: Nkuringo, Uganda I was heading to the toilets to pee when a large animal ran across my path. It was well after sunset, so through the beam on my headlamp I struggled to make out the mighty figure rushing past me down the hill toward the village. A jackal? A lion? A woolly mammoth? Any [...]
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Two Weeks After Our Wedding…
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 3 October 2009
9/19/09: Uganda You really have no idea how bad the roads are here. I’ve said it many times before, but it bears repeating. Today our minibus drove up and down bumpy mountainsides with reckless abandon, literally a foot away from sending us tumbling to ours deaths hundreds of feet below. About three hours into our perilous ride [...]
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Equatorial Equations
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 2 October 2009
9/18/09: The equator, Uganda For the last week I have been trying to convince Kevin to let me buy some small souvenirs – earrings or a bracelet – to no avail. Whether this is because he is inherently cheap or because he really doesn’t want to carry the extra 0.1 ounce I’m not sure. I’m leaning [...]
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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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The Long Awaited Front Page Splash
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 22 August 2009
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Kiva Fellows in DeNile
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 August 2009
By Jaclyn Berfond, Laura Buhler, Alison Carlman, Joel Carlman and Cameron Morris Last weekend the East African Kiva Fellows delegation descended upon the bustling streets of Kampala, Uganda and the banks of the Nile River for two days of intense knowledge transfer and mild revelry. We spent hours discussing the importance of data validity in performing [...]
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School sign, Masindi
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 26 June 2009
Not sure if I have already posted this before. Apologies if I'm repeating on you. But amidst all the poor taste Wacko Jacko jokes here's a little light relief from Uganda. Schools, mininbuses, grocery stores, tailors, hardware shops - if you operate a physical 'space' in Uganda, you need to get with the mode and have your very own slogan.Here's my favourite from the road to Murchison.
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More Shopping Tales From The Dark Continent
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 5 June 2009
A tale in the same vein as the one where I tried to return three rakes, and only got my money back for the ones that weren't broken...A colleague of ours was telling me a story last week. She wanted to get some skirts made out of the loud, funky Congolese cotton prints that are so beautiful. She'd bought her fabric and found a local seamstress.
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Let Sleeping Hippos Lie
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 4 June 2009
So, I'd seen Lake Albert and, more recently in our last trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Lake Edward too. But up until last week I'd never seen Lake George. It seems all the lakes in Uganda are named after old British monarchs and their family. They were re-named after independence, under Amin, but after his own family members, so that was hardly any better and their old colonial names were swiftly restored after his downfall.Maybe, a little cynical bit of me thinks, they thought it would be better for their tourist industry. And they'd probably be right.
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Don't Try This At Home
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 26 May 2009
One of our more gung-ho guests has just got back from the DRC.
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Or Your Money Back
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 30 April 2009
We bought three garden rakes from a massive supermarket here recently.
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Days of Kings and Leopards
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 28 April 2009
We've just returned from six days exploring Queen Elizabeth National Park out west. Despite both suffering some unknown virus from the day we set off (where's that swine flu tester kit, anyone?) it really was quite spectacular.
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Chips, Anyone?
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 11 April 2009
Call us hippies if you will, but as soon as we got here we realised that we could develop a way of filtering used vegetable oil from our kitchens and reusing it as fuel for the generator and the Land Rover. So, in our first few months last year, we asked the Kitchen to save all their waste oil in the big yellow jerries. When we had enough to do anything half decent with we'd work on the filtering system.
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Getting the horn
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 11 April 2009
Last October we added the relatively new joy of tracking wild rhinos on foot to the Red Chilli Safari tour. We kept one tour as the tried and tested itinerary, and marketed a new one, called "Big Five on a Budget", which included all the usual game drives and boat launch trips in Murchison Falls National Park (where one has the potential to tick off at four out of the 'big five' game animals), but also tacked on a visit to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, just off the road between Kampala and Masindi (thereby ticking off rhinos, the remaining member of the 'big five').
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The Quad Squad
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 31 March 2009
Last November, when S&J visited, we decided to do something R&I had been saving up for some time. Quad bike safaris up the banks of the Nile, up past Jinja around the Bujagali Falls adventure area.All Terrain Adventures are a company that was set up by an Antipodean couple - the mad and lovely Shirray and PK. He knows his bikes and spanners, she does the hospitality side and runs the craft shop and cafe. They built their house out of the containers the quads got delivered in, and it's an amazing warren of rooms and open plan areas that works really well.
