If only every day started with a sausage sandwich. Today we have an early start (ishish time) as we have a 140 km to cross the border into Uganda and then make our way to Jinja. The road is not too bad and we soon arrive at the back of the long queue of trucks which stretch for several kilometres to the border. Their wait can be a long one, up to 2 weeks, to cross but we are the big yellow truck and wait for no-one. Dickson powers past the truck on the wrong side of the elevated road. Oncoming matutos, bikes, jeeps and pedestrians scatter as we approach. I can see an equally big truck coming towards us. Now what?
The face off arrives pretty quickly and it is certain that the overladen truck must take the centre course while we negotiate the embankment. Gingerly, Dickson nudges towards the edge and as the outside wheels go over our truck tips to a 45 degree angle, prompting screams from the more nervous as we try to stop ourselves falling off the seats to the edge. We should have more confidence in the truck and Dickson as we roll along at an angle but we are all relieved when we finally regain the road surface..
The border crossing is made without incident and we make our way to our home for the next four nights at the Nile River Explorer Camp in Bujagali Falls just beyond Jinja.
The face off arrives pretty quickly and it is certain that the overladen truck must take the centre course while we negotiate the embankment. Gingerly, Dickson nudges towards the edge and as the outside wheels go over our truck tips to a 45 degree angle, prompting screams from the more nervous as we try to stop ourselves falling off the seats to the edge. We should have more confidence in the truck and Dickson as we roll along at an angle but we are all relieved when we finally regain the road surface..
The border crossing is made without incident and we make our way to our home for the next four nights at the Nile River Explorer Camp in Bujagali Falls just beyond Jinja.
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