Kampala-Dar es Salaam 1st January-11th January After New Year we spent a few days as a group relaxing at Blair and Greggs project and saving some money while we were at it. By the 6th of January we were ready to head off onto the next stage of travelling-Zanzibar via Tanzania. We set off from Kampala on an Akamba Bus with the intentions of going South of Kampala and into Tanzania to a town called Mwanza. After an hour of heading North Eat of Kampala we ...

New Years After leaving the Ssese Islands we made our way back to project, we had to go to Kampala first in order to get a taxi to Mubende; whilst sitting in the back of a taxi in the middle of Kampalain a traffic jam I got my first item stolen. A guy had been walking outside the window but I hadn't really noticed, next moment he snatched my bracelet off my wrist and ran off-it was horrible because I couldn't do anything! When we got back to project I also bro...

18th December- 29th December Mubende-Kampala-Entebbe-Ssese Islands-Entebbe After our relaxing few days we headed to Kampala for our next stage of travelling. On the 18th we ended up going to the 'This is Uganda Festival'. It had a proper festival vibe and was on a rugby pitch just outside the city centre. We saw Ugandan acts and ended up dancing away on stage which was really fun.On the 19th of December all 18 of us went for a lovely group meal at an Indian in ...

30th November-17th December Mubende-Kampala-Kabale-Rwanda-Kabale-Lake Bunyoni-Fort Portal-Mubende. So I have not written a blog for a very long time, as we have been travelling and I just havn't had time in all the excitement.So…Naomi and I left our project on the 29th of November; we got a lovely goodbye from everyone at Project and a specially made plate of chips from Olivia (who cooks for us.) We then travelled up to Kampala where we met everyone at Back...

Its been a little while since the last blog and since then a fair bit has happened, so prepare for a big blog… On the weekend of the 12th most of us volunteers ventured to Jinja for Molly (one of the other volunteers) 18th Birthday. Naomi and I left on Friday 12th mid-morning and made it to James and Isabels for around 2pm, ready to pick up Naomi's bank card. After that we headed down to Garden City (posh shopping centre) to enjoy a bit of pizza at Pizza hut an...