After a 10 hour bus ride, we arrived in Kampala, Uganda at about 3pm local time. We meet a Swiss guy as we got off the bus who told us about a sweet hostel, and the 7 of us headed to Red Chilli Hideaway.
I took advantage of the sweet location and awesome food and stayed in and relaxed for the evening while everyone else went out on the town. Saturday morning we hopped in a taxi and rode to Entebbe to hop on a ferry to ride to Ssese island. On the boat we met two very interesting people: the captain and the marketing manager of a resort on the island. We got to ride partway to the island upstairs with the captain and his crew. The marketing manager cut us a deal on his resort, and we had a great 2 nights there. We spent most of Sunday down by the water reading and resting…
And watching the pigs…
And the monkeys…
And the ostrich…
(Note that Kat is cowering in fear.)
We watched Liar Liar and Oprah on TV…in the middle of Africa. We had our own personal housegirl who served us breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. We were very well taken care of!
There was a spectacular sunset over Lake Victoria that night.
We woke up early again Monday morning to catch the ferry back to Entebbe. We rode in a taxi back to Red Chilli and rested. We went to a Thai restaurant for dinner and had AMAZING spring rolls, pad Thai, and mango sticky rice. That’s not something you see everyday (or any day) in Rwanda! It was quite a treat as our last meal in Uganda.
We woke up the next morning and hopped in a taxi for the bus station. We barely made it in time! The Jaguar bus was not nearly as comfortable as the Kampala Coach bus we took to Uganda, so we were quite excited to arrive in Kigali to get off the bus and bathe and finally relax at home. After a few errands in Kigali this morning, Peyton and I headed back to Musanze, our real home. I’m looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight, but I’m even more so looking forward to going back to school on Monday!
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