Ella was quite sick at this stage so I was on my own. I went on the back of a motorbike into Jinja to buy some supplies. While there I had some chapati, flat bread, cooked by a street vendor. The chapati was filled with eggs and some vegetables cooked while I waited. It tasted quite good, with some cheese it would have been perfect. In the afternoon I did a boat trip to the source of the Nile. There was quite a bit of bird spotting which doesnt interest me too m...

Travelling back through Uganda to Jinja we crossed the equator again but this time we stopped for photos. Here we saw a demonstration of the water draining in the different hemispheres. This seems to be a trick as the coriolis effect should be too weak to direct water the waters swirl despite what the Simpons has taught us. The best bit was on the equator the water drains straight down with no swirl. Although it was probably some sort of trickery too.

Armed with our supplies of textbooks, stationary and soccer balls, today we were visiting Little Angels Orphanage along the shore of Lake Bunyoni. Michael and I were assigned to a classroom jam packed with the younger children, probably around 5years old. They were learning about shapes in English, and any time a student correctly answered a question from the teacher, the whole class clapped 'Well done, well done [name], you are so very good and precious!'After t...

This was the highly anticipated day that we finally got to see wild mountain gorillas. Our permits were all approved and 8 of us would be off before dawn for our 10am trek through Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.However, being rainy season, we soon realised what a problem landslides on the steep mountain roads would be. Upon our first landslide, we eagerly jumped out of van into the chilly mountain air, assuming that we could somehow move all of the mud out of ...

9thToday was a very long driving day taking us from our campsite near the Maasai Mara to a northern Kenyan town named Eldoret. We travelled through all daylight hours. 10thToday was yet another travel day, this time crossing the Ugandan border and arriving in Kampala. 11thThis was our final of three solid days driving. We drove through all daylight hours, and a very carsick Ella was very happy to have arrive in Kabale (near Lake Bunyoni, Uganda) at last. We wou...