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COUNTRYSIDE PICTURE LINK - 1st SET
COUNTRYSIDE PICTURE LINK - 2nd SET
Uganda is vastly different from Kenya. It's very tropical and somewhat humid like Hawaii, not dry and
desolate. When we landed it was pouring rain, but luckily it only lasted a couple hours. It was barely an
hour flight,
yet it was like flying to a whole new world!
Tropical plants and trees can be seen everywhere, including many banana trees. The pollution is horrible
here like Kenya with it mostly coming from vehicle exhaust. At night, there's very little electricity
so the
pollution got even worse with everyone making huge pit fires. It became very hazy to see, and my asthma
kicked in.
These fires were used for light plus to cook on. You could see people selling food along the road, cooking
with skewers over the pit fires. Our tour guide Germina said everything was open to 10:00pm.
The roads were just as horrible as they were in Kenya. They are full of potholes, and the main highways
have small and big speed bumps! We would be cruising along really fast and then we had to slow
down for the speed bumps. Nuts!
The traffic in Kampala was 50 times worse than it was in Nairobi. There was absolutely no rhyme
or reason to it.
When you need to turn, you just slowly make your way through the traffic jam. It took a long time to
go anywhere. There were roundabouts but no one respected anyone's right-of-way. I'm glad we had hired a
driver because we wouldn't have lasted one minute driving on these roads!
As is Kenya, most cars that we saw were really beat up. They had matatus for public transportation.
One neat observation I noticed when we were driving on the highways was when we were behind a large truck.
The school children walking along the side of the road would see the truck coming and all turn at the same
time so the dust it kicked up wouldn't get into their eyes. They would then all turn back
at the same time!
If we needed to tinkle while driving on these highways, our driver would just pull over
on the side of the road and we would go. He was able to find us one bathroom one time when I really needed
it. It was pretty decent.
Check out the links above of the many pictures I took of Uganda's countryside of Uganda. Enjoy!
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