Category: Uganda

  • Best Of Southern and Eastern Africa

    Our three and a half months in Africa were extremely varied: we marveled at some beautiful landscapes, had some wonderful wildlife experiences, got to travel with friends, summited a mountain, endured some really rough and uncomfortable overland travel, dealt with some frustrating logisitcal setbacks, and overcame a bit of a “what are our goals here?”…

  • Yum: Where the Chapatti At?

    Let’s not sugar coat this: generally speaking, Africa is not exactly full of culinary delights. We ate chicken and chips for dinner more times than I care to remember, and for about two weeks our diet consisted almost exclusively of corn, bananas, peanut butter, and crackers– that’s all we could find. So when you find…

  • Seeing Uganda through the Eyes of an NGO

    One of the main reasons we decided to visit Uganda–besides not feeling totally ready to leave Africa, and some scheduling particulars that made it make more sense–was because we have a connection in Kampala. Lynn, one of my parents’ oldest and dearest friends some eight years ago sold the business she owned and started a…

  • Sipi Falls

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    We had a few days to kill before heading to visit our friend near Kampala, and we had zero desire to spend a lot of time going too far, nor did we feel like going anywhere that required too much planning, so we headed east to Sipi Falls. We had read that this set of…

  • Volunteering with Soft Power Education

    We were ready for a somewhat different experience during our time in Uganda, our last stop in Africa. Uganda, also known as “the pearl of Africa”, is a country roughly the same size as the state of Oregon, but with a rapidly-growing population of 33+ million people (for comparison, Oregon’s population is 4 million). The…