I've arrived in Uganda - July 4, 2010

After a long but uneventful trip I landed in Entebbe at 8 PM. Much of both flights was either over clouds or at night, but we had about 2 hours of glorious views over miles of endless desert in Libya and northern Sudan.
















Immigration formalities were quick, my luggage arrived, although in the very last trailer, and Herbert was there to meet me as planned. Things went off course slightly driving home - apparently today was the day that parents visit their children at boarding school, and there are a lot of boarding schools in the 35 km or so between Entebbe and Kampala. So a 45 minute drive took about 2.5 hours! Herbert, Flavia (a friend who came with him) and I joked about how it was an adventure, rather than an inconvenience, as per my email byline.

Eventually we arrived in Kampala and made a quick stop at the Chicken-Tonight takeaway - it was after 11 PM and we were all starving. Unfortunately we had to wake up poor Betty who had given up on my arrival, so there we were standing in the dark with suitcases and chicken in hand clanging on the metal security door at the entrance to the building.


By midnight I was settled back into my room, tucked under my mosquito net for the night, with very little having changed since I left here in December.