Thursday 30th October

It felt like we were back in the UK today as our plans were disrupted by rain!

Our plan was to leave at 7am to drive to the top of the falls and then on to Kampala. However the road to the top of the falls is very steep and after the rain we had during the early hours of the morning it was decided that this would be both unsafe and probably impassable anyway!

So we left at 9am for Kampala first we alighted the car ferry that would take us across the Nile. For ‘Ferry’ read ‘metal deck with a large engine on either side’, it felt very Top Gear-esque. We drove for 2 hours through the park seeing many Baboons as we went. The roads in the park were dirt tracks, some with great crevices down the middle so Godfrey our driver had a tricky day, another hour of dirt track bought us to the town of Massindi and we stopped to refuel the bus and use the bathrooms.

The journey from Massindi to Kampala was then relatively smooth, we picked up the highway and drove the 3hrs back to Kampala on Tarmac which was a great relief after the ‘African Massage’ we had been having all morning!

At 3pm we arrived back in Kampala and made our way to Cafe Java, our favourite local haunt, for a late lunch before tipping up at the guest house to rest- it is weird how travelling makes you so tired!