Arriving in Uganda

After 23 hours of travelling me and Ben made it to our destination for our first night in Africa. We left Gatwick at around 9.15 on Monday evening and via Dubai got to Entebbe airport at around 2.00 local time. After a bit of fun at immigration where we first forgot to fill in the landing cards and then were told that as we'd gotten our visas before we left we were considered residents of Uganda we got through (this resulted in us waiting in 3 separate lines). Thankfully our bags were on the carousel (seeing as it had taken 40 mins to got through immigration) we walked through arrivals to be greeted by Bob (my main contact and the person through which this trip was arranged) and Idah (the wife of the school's adminstrator). We then caught a taxi into Entebbe itself followed by a taxi van into Kampala. After changing some money ($400 equals a little over 800,000 Ugandan shilling lots of notes) we got another taxi to a taxi rank in Kampala followed by another taxi van to a town called Mityana around an hour out of Kampala. I've been really enjoying the local colour and vibe. Driving in Kampala is an interesting experience and I will always be amazed at how close people, cars, vans, bikes and motorcycles can get without actually touching. I'm also really enjoying getting around how the locals do. We stayed in a hotel in Mityana last night (1600 shillings for a night which is around $8). We are heading to Kibbuse today.

Hope you are all well and til next time.