Category: Adventures
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Kisenyi, part 1
On the eastern shore of Lake Albert is a small town called Kisenyi. To get there, we took a car from Fort Portal around the winding foothills of the Rwenzori and then, unexpectedly and for free, through a game reserve of long, dry-white grass, antelope, guinea fowl and thorn trees. We reached the grubby port…
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Gulu
I don’t know what I expected. Something different. Something less ordinary. Two of us sat, on a Wednesday night, and watched people cautiously, nervously moving up and down the road in the flickering light of a garbage fire. An hour earlier we had been sitting on the flat rooftop of a run-down hotel, watching the…
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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…