Uganda!

We arrive in Kampla which is the capital and main city of Uganda. The
traffic is supposed to be insane and it is. Its like nothing I have
seen in Africa yet, picture NYC in rush hour without traffic lights.
CRAZY!

We became friends with Stephen, a 19 year old crazy Canadian who has
done a ton of travel. We all jump in a cab and head to the Red Chilli.
It’s a hippie backpackers place and grab dorms for a few bucks and
just chill after a long travel day

Day 2

I wake up and head to the India Embassy to get my visa with Sarah. We
grab some mot bikes and head off.



Looks like I’ll be chillin in Uganda for a bit cause I have to wait a week which is A O K with me.
I’m stoaked to see Uganda. We head back to the chilli, grab some food. While we were gone the group heard about this island in the sessi island in lake Victoria called Banda island. You have to take a small local boat 3 hours so we jump in a cab and head to some island we hope is there, ADVENTURE TIME!

We arrive after an hour drive and find ourselves being lifted up my men on there shoulders and put into the boat.



The water is extremely polluted so they carry you for about 40 cents.







Off we go as day turns to night and the sunsets over lake Victoria.



As we arrive all we see is a massive fire on the beach and lanterns. This is nuts! We get off the boat with a home made lantern and are led to the dorms. The island is like lost.



We put our stuff down and are led to the “Castle”. It’s a crazy home made church like building. We have food waiting and drinks. This place is awesome.



The castle has electric but not our dorms so we are led back and hit the hay. I cant
wait to see what this place looks like in the light.



I wake up and feel like a kid on Xmas. I peek out and see this crazy place we heard about the day before and now are in. Random massive abandoned boats, homemade buildings, randoms dogs roaming, hammocks, this is what its about. We go get breakfast.















We spent the next few days kayaking around the island, relaxing, laughing by the fire at night and just chillin in the hammocks.





The last night there we met Anthony, Tim aka Jesus and Tom who came
just for the night. We all hung out came back to the main land together.



We arrive back on a Friday night and all wanted to go out for a night
on Kampala and boy did we. We went to a random local club, I had a few
dance offs with locals, everyone did there thing and we left around 4
am. Its was a solid night.






We sleep in, grab some grub then head down to explore the markets and
Kampla. Its super busy but fun to see. The markets are PACKED! We
walk, buy some stuff then head back after the sky opens up. I’m some
how convinced to head to Jinja to go Raft class 5 rapids in the Nile
river in the morning, EPP!


We get picked up and head to Jinja, A town alogn the Nile river where
all the rafting places are. Pulling up you hear the rapids. Its
Antony, Tim aka Jesus, Sarah, Alexa and myself. We get the talk, put
on our gear and off we go.

My Dad and just sent me a NYT article all about the Nile and how crazy
the rapids are, the article was correct.

This is a picture of the “Bad place” a class 5 ½. The river has class
6, yes they do exist.



After rafting, flipping, rafting, flipping and some more rafting we
came back, showered and had some dinner. Our rooms over looked the
nile, not bad for $8. We chilled and had dinner. I could not be
happier I am in Uganda now. I had to cut India short but have had a
blast and met some really awesome people.

I say goodbye to my travel buddies of the last two weeks and head back
to Kampala with Tim. I luck out and get my Visa a day early so now its
off to Kenya then India :o)