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Day sixteen (continued)
It was around 6.30pm when we finally arrived back at the Kisoro Hotel. Rob had arranged dinner in the restaurant. Goat was the main ingredient of the meal. I think the goat may have been a very old goat as it was tough as old boots. Everybody was pretty tired and there was no late sessions tonight except for Michelle, Kim, Kevin and Vanessa who were rapidly getting reputations as night owls.
Day seventeen
In the morning I was feeling quite ill. When you get ill in Africa you get really ill, and there are such a large variety of diseases you can contract in Africa as well. I think I had an old fashioned case of food poisoning with all the accompanying discomforts. To put it bluntly, when I had to go to the toilet it was like turning on a tap. I was to scared to fart. But lets not go there.
I was on cooking duty today so that was just all I needed in my condition. Corey was in the wars as well so I couldn't rely on him to carry the load. After packing up we climbed the hills out of Kisoro and went past Lake Bunyoni before heading northwards. We stopped at Kabale which has a hot bread shop popular with overlanders. I decided not to indulge myself.
After lunch we travelled through the afternoon and stopped in a gravel pit just out of Mbarara. Corey and me cooked stirfry again but I didn't eat anything. Before bed I took some Immodium which is like a plug when you are suffering stomach upsets.
Day eighteen
After travelling for a few hours we came to a small truck stop which also happened to be built around the mark where you cross the equator. We took some photos to mark the event. We looked like a real rabble by this stage considering we hadn't had a proper wash since Lake Bunyoni.
We carried on throughout the day until we reached a Backpackers lodge just on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. There were showers, toilets, a bar. Heaven in other words. We all did our washing which was a bit of a mission. Healthwise, I was starting to come right by this stage. We had Pasta for dinner which was a pleasant change from stew and stirfry. Kev and Vanessa got munted well and truly that night.
Day nineteen
Today we were in for a bit of a treat. It was a bit of a tradition for all Rob's overlanders to visit the Sheraton in Kampala for breakfast. We drove in to the city quivering with anticipation. Upon arrival we seated ourselves politely and with a certain amount of decorum before absolutely gorging ourselves on the fare on offer. It was all you could eat for $USD14, which compared with the prices of other things in Africa is actually quite expensive. However, we were beyond caring by this stage.
After breakfast, we had a good look around Kampala and I stocked up on Mozzie repellent. We then proceeded onto an Ice Cream parlour which had......2 flavours. Classic.
Kampala is a very dusty capital, no modern buildings of any note and its only redeeming feature was the Sheraton of course and also a post office facsimile service. I was able to send a fax back to my relatives at home to let them know I was all right. One of the passenger ferrys' had sunk trying to cross Lake Victoria killing 600 people while we were in the Congo, and we thought it would be prudent to let everyone back at home know that we weren't on that particular ferry.
In the afternoon we drove further round Lake Victoria to Jinja which is the source of the nile. We found the stone marking the place for photo opportunities, and there were also some floats out onto the Nile itself which you could walk on and dip your toes in the famous river.
After that we travelled to our camp for the night which was set in beautiful surroundings at a place called Bugajagli Falls. The camp overlooked some rapids on the Nile that make up the Falls. I saw fireflies for the first time in my life that evening but this didn't completely compensate that I was on dishes that night. Damn!
Day Twenty
I was on Fire duty today so Corey and me had to be up before the cooks so that they could get breakfast on the go straight away. The cooks made pancakes for brekkie which was good. Today would involve a bit of driving as we were going to go back into Kenya heading in a easterly direction.
We would then turn north to visit Lake Turkana which is near the Sudan border.
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