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This will be a pretty boring day of driving, driving and more driving, interrupted only by our border crossing into Uganda which could take anything from from 1 to 3 hours. We are entering Uganda at Malaba which is the major border for all trucks entering Uganda, containers, petrol tankers, produce and the like, hence the not-so-speedy border formalities.
On the road by 6:50am after packing up our tents, (no mean feat as they are big and heavy), and having breakfast.
Three hours driving to the Border where we pass about 7 kilometres of trucks, loaded to the gunwales, waiting to go through Kenya exit immigration and customs. Each truck goes on the weigh bridge to be cleared and preach driver also needs his passport to be cleared. After our Kenyan formalities, which only takes 15 minutes for us 8 to clear. We then cross the Ugandan river, a no-mans land area of about 500 metres, stop at the Ugandan immigration office to complete our entry formalities, pay our $US50 and be on our way again within half an hour. Victor is delighted by the very fast processing today. We pass many more trucks lined up as they now need their trucks to go through Uganda customs. These drivers usually take 2
- 3 days for this whole process.
There is much road building and earthworks going on in no-mans land, constructing a new bridge and border crossing to enable reduced waiting times etc.
So here we are in Uganda, with the countryside, people and dwellings looking the same.
It is so green in East Africa and nowhere more so than here. Cane fields stretch forever with crops of maize also in every spare space. Uganda is known for cement, the Tororo Cement Works is massive and not far from the border.
We arrived at Red Chilli for our first night in Uganda only to find that the camping area of this new resort hasn't been completed yet. Oh dear, how sad - no tents tonight, we are sleeping in dormitories. Great place, hot showers, flush toilets, nice bar, cheap gin and tonic - what else could a girl ask for?
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Cheryl Hi Sandy, Well sounds like an interesting day travelling and being inspected.
Yvonne Blank Hi Sandra, it all sounds wonderful and I am very envious - it is really neat to get up close and personal with the animals and I will never forget my 2 trips to South Africa and the game parks, especially the time I was allowed to pat a cheetah, quite amazing, keep up with the great blogs - I really look forward to reading them, Love, Yvonne