 Mandela Stadium. This giant sports center was completed in 1998 and cost $28.6 million to build. |
 This is an example of the storefronts along the roads. |
 Tea Plantation. Only tea and sugar are grown on large estates in Uganda, which total 98,800 acres. |
 The most common food crop is bananas. Uganda's staple is matoke, steamed green bananas mashed up. We tried it, and it looks and tastes like mashed sweet potatoes. It was really good! |
 A banana tree. They also make banana wine, banana gin, and roasted bananas. They do eat sweet yellow bananas, and bananas make great plugs in the top of jerry cans. |
 The economy's backbone is the coffee industry, and Uganda is one of the five leading coffee growers in the world. Presently two types of coffee are grown, Arabic and Robusta. Next time you make coffee, check your label to see where it came from! |
 A banana isn't the fruit of a tree. Banana trees are really herbs or enormous grasses. It takes as long to form a banana fruit as it does a human baby, nine months. |
 A better glimpse on what the storefronts looked like as we drove along the roads. |
 Long-horned Ankole cattle. I remember as we were approaching Kampala, I saw an animal with the longest horns - at least five feet long! I was shocked as I've never seen this before. Jeff said, "It's time we take you to Texas, girl!" |
 Beef from Ankole cattle has been found to contain less cholesterol and less fat content than any other beef. In another study, Ankole steers were found to be able to survive severe weather. |
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