Author: Claire
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Thoughts on not liking Rwanda
East Africa was never on my list. A few years ago, when I put Southern Africa at the top of my list of places to see, East Africa wasn’t even in my mind. And yet East Africa has dominated my recent travels. Uganda, DRC in December/January, Kenya and Rwanda in March/April. The most recent East…
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The road to Eldoret
I woke that morning not even aware that I was in a strange bed. After breakfast and a brief meeting, we set off on our long journey northward. Or possibly west-ward. We were certainly sharing the road with plenty of “Danger Petroleum” trucks and Kampala Coach busses. I watched the landscape, so similar to home,…
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Falling for Fort Portal
I lost my heart in Western Uganda to a small town set amidst emerald tea fields in the blue shadow of the mountains of the moon. We travelled up from Kampala by bus on a hot, sticky summer’s day. The road wound up and up, past pampas fields and random felt until, slowly, we found…