We've been in Kampala for a off and on for a couple of weeks and we're finally starting to get our bearings. We've been staying near downtown and so we've had a little more accessibility to getting around. We're about a 15 minute walk from the country's only mall and so we've had a little more access to email (and civilization) lately. Its nice to be close enough to downtown to be able to walk instead of taking the boda-boda's. The traffic is so terrible sometimes that its faster on foot anyway.
We took a boda across town last night and got stuck in such a bad "jam" that our boda driver turned off the bike and we sat there for 10 minutes until it started to move. When it did start to move some of the most terrifying seconds of my life ensued. There's so much pent-up aggression when people have been sitting there for several mintutes that everyone took off and tried to ram everyone else off the road. We ended up charging over some glass shards onto the sidewalk and we got bumped by a van. And I would consider this driver relatively safe for Kampala. Needless to say, we're going to be phasing out our usage of bodas in Kampala.
We had a great dinner last night with several people from Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands that are all doing work here in Uganda. There are a lot of great things going on here. More about this in a future post...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
dan and i say 'hi'
Post a Comment