Part 2 of our trip was a journey through Uganda. A surprisingly painless border crossing at Ruhengeri, given that we now had to export our hire car from Rwanda and then import into Uganda. We wound our way round mountain roads with thick forested hills on either side. We saw large families of baboons at the side of the road and passed through small villages. Not many cars as hardly anyone has one, just the usual array of overloaded minibuses, motorbikes and push bikes. Eventually we arrived at Kabale for our overnight stop. Not much to write about but we did manage to purchase Ugandan Sims and get some local currency. Due in part to the frequent power cuts and the usual elongated time scales for meals we waited a record 1hour and a bit for toasted sandwiches. This was almost surpassed by the time it took in the evening to find someone at our “hotel” who knew anything about how to order food in the restaurant or even a beer in the dusty bar. However whilst not exactly gourmet, they did rustle up (better not to dwell on where from) a lovely plate of chicken fried rice.
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