After my intially planned 3 days cry fest in Rwanda which turned into a 1 week mind blow the boys and I got a bus to Kampal from Kigali. It was suppose to take 8 but ended up being 15 hours... oh well TIA. The border crossing from Rwanda to Uganda took a while cause "no mans land " ( the bit where you have to walk from Rwanda to Uganda and are technically in the middle of nowhere) takes about 20 miniuts to walk to but there were farms on either side of it so you get thinking " which country are they in and which country gets the profits." After crossing the border we continued to trek towards Kampala. It is really how much diffrence a simle line on a map makes. Rwanda is the land of 1000 hills and is greeny brown for the most part but as soon as you enter Uganda it gets flatter and more tropical.
Going to the bathroom during the journey was a bit of a challenge as you have to trek through grasses and compete with other Ugandan women to find a bush. There was an incident where i thought i found sizeable coverage and then a motorbike driver on the road quite a ways in the distance stopped and then proceded to have a conversation with me... which was a tad awkward oh well it happens.
After 5 days exploring parts of Uganda Ed and I flew to Zanzibar to meet up the others. We went Kampala,- Nairobi- Dar es salaam- Zanzibar.Ed and I have now filled out 10 forms just for entering and exting Kenya and have now started racing each other to see who can fill the form out quickest.... we are obviously so cool.
Zanzibar is absolute paradise, warm weather nice beaches cheap indian food and the ocean. Due to the fact that I do not tan my SPF 60 is a piece of poo and my malaria pills make me burn I now look like a radish and have a burn mark in the shape of the batman logo which is bloody impressive.
Its been really interesting backpacking through East Africa and seeing how diffrent each country is from each other. My favorite is still Rwanda and im pretty sure its an English persons paraside with nice weather, wine bottle sized deliciouse beer for 80p and Kebabs that melt in your mouth. Uganda has very very strong beer and Kenya is very expesive in comparison to the other countrys granted I was only in Nairobi but still. Jomo Kenyatta Interntional Airport in Nairobi is like my second home in Africa considering the amount of time I have spent there .
After Zanzibar im back to Arusha and back to my plastrhouse babies who I'm looking forward to see again .
Sounds so cool. I want wine bottle sized beer please. Hahaha :P
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