Flamingoes and Rafting the Nile

After a day at the cricket in Kampala, where home team Uganda began the day by thrashing a much less impressive Ghana (less impressive than the day before that was), and ended the day with a loss to the #1 ranked team from Namibia, those of us who let the truck travel ahead of us (7 of us) caught up to the truck through a 2 hour minivan ride to nearby Jinja.  

Jinja is located right next to the Nile, and is very much an adventure-seekers paradise, with activities such as white water rafting, kayaking and now even jet boat riding available to the ever-increasing number of tourists (whilst we were in Jinja the campgrounds we observed were packed with a combination of other overland trucks and general tourists to the area).  

Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Mountain Gorillas

We’ve spent the last 10 days or so in Central East Africa, crossing over the equator 3 times and traversing through Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.  As I write this we are currently in Kampala, capital city of Uganda, and will tomorrow head to Jinja before heading back once again to Kenya.  

We had three nights in Nairobi.  We had been warned about Nairobi, so found the city to be better than we were expecting, although we did spend the majority of our time in an outer suburb which is regarded as slightly more affluent.  A recently built Galleria Shopping Mall possibly signifies a movement towards enhanced economic prosperity (the mall was very nice, but still only about 2/3rds occupied)?