I’m ready for a few days R&R in Jinja and our first day starts well with some gorgeous fresh chapattis. Then it’s off to explore in town. I love the markets with their dark alleys between the stalls and all the fresh fruit and veg, some of which I can even recognise. Haggling over every small purchase is a highlight and after some tough negotiations I end up with a baseball cap and a proposal of marriage for the princely sum of 75p (actually the marriage proposal was a bonus I hadn’t counted on!).
Alice is sooo excited to get her nails painted for 50p, and we spend the rest of the morning admiring them before catching a boda-boda back to the camp. For those of you not in the know, a boda boda is a motorbike taxi and is a near death experience not to be missed. Flying down the dirt road without a helmet, swerving round potholes, people and oncoming traffic is exhilarating enough, but then the icing on the cake is the high speed acceleration down a very steep hill in order to gain enough momentum to get up the other side to reach our camp site. Arriving there alive is the cherry on top.
It’s Chelle’s birthday today and most of us have signed up for the booze cruise down the Nile to Lake Victoria. I am not certain what to expect but the sunset views are spectacular as we slowly meander along the Nile into the Lake, especially from the open toilet at the back of the boat!
Back at the campsite the celebrations continue in the bar until gradually everyone’s drifts off (not necessarily to their own tent!) and there are only a few of us left as the bar closes and we settle round a campfire with the bar staff to exchange storie
Alice is sooo excited to get her nails painted for 50p, and we spend the rest of the morning admiring them before catching a boda-boda back to the camp. For those of you not in the know, a boda boda is a motorbike taxi and is a near death experience not to be missed. Flying down the dirt road without a helmet, swerving round potholes, people and oncoming traffic is exhilarating enough, but then the icing on the cake is the high speed acceleration down a very steep hill in order to gain enough momentum to get up the other side to reach our camp site. Arriving there alive is the cherry on top.
It’s Chelle’s birthday today and most of us have signed up for the booze cruise down the Nile to Lake Victoria. I am not certain what to expect but the sunset views are spectacular as we slowly meander along the Nile into the Lake, especially from the open toilet at the back of the boat!
Back at the campsite the celebrations continue in the bar until gradually everyone’s drifts off (not necessarily to their own tent!) and there are only a few of us left as the bar closes and we settle round a campfire with the bar staff to exchange storie
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