We managed to get out of Kampala unscathed and set off on our two day drive to Bwindi and spent the first night at Lake Mburo National Park. As it was 5 p.m. when we arrived and the entry fee was $90 we decided not to stay in the park, opting to stay just outside the gate. We had an early start to Bwindi in the morning and wouldn't have time to tour the park in the morning. We practiced our campfire again and started the fire straight away. The fire worked well a...

The road to Kampala from Jinja was pretty good on the whole and we arrived in Kampala in good time to have a look around at about 11 a.m. Like every other major city we have travelled through the traffic was absolutely horrendous and again the mini buses which form the biggest part of the public transport being to blame. They nudge in and out of the traffic forcing their way here and there. We were travelling along the outside lane on the main Kampala road right ...

Jinja the adrenaline capital of Uganda with some of the world's best white water rafting on the doorstep. The town has a lush location on the shores of Lake Victoria and is the source of the Nile which flows all the way through Africa to the Mediterranean. It is a buzzing little place with much Indian influenced architecture. We easily found our campsite which was in the grounds of a small family hotel The Timton. The weather in Uganda at the moment is excep...

We did a bit of shopping in Mbale before we left. The town was obviously quite a poor town with a large Indian community who returned to Uganda after being driven out by Idi Amin. The drive up to Sipi Falls was absolutely spectacular and the landscape is amazingly lush. We drove through many banana plantations and tiny villages on the way up to Crows Nest campsite. The majority of the villages are just mud huts with either straw or tin roofs, the tin ones bei...

Little did we know that today was to see us cover only 200 miles in 10 hour,s the road was as bd as anything we have travelled so far. Our map shows the route to Uganda as a tarmaced A road and it is the major trunking road for trucks from kenya. Unfortunately, a new road is being built alongside and as everywhere in Africa if a new road is being built the old road has been badly neglectd. It was actually tarmac but it had been repaired many, many times by sim...