Uganda and Rwanda and Uganda again...

So I appreicate that I am severely behind in my blogging! But I have had just the most amazing week! I started my overland safari last weekend and so this week has just been ridiculously busy travelling from one country to another and doing so much stuff. I actually can't believe that a week has passed already and that I only have three more weeks with people left. The rest of my time after that is in Zanzibar on my own just chilling and relaxing and definitely having a pedicure. My feet are rank - I think I gave up cleaning them after about a week - although somebody did tell me about jiggers last night, these little worms which can get in so I might start cleaning them a little more vigorously! So wish that I had accepted that foot exfoliator mum offered me before I left. Anyhow, I digress!

So I left Jinja on Saturday morning and was so upset! Never did I appreicate how easily it would be to make such good friends in such a short space of time and feel so at home in a place that I've only been in for 6 weeks. Leaving was hard but the only good thing is that I knew that I'd come back the week later and see Beccy, Jess and Liam again. I know I keep rabbiting on about making friends and getting really upset when they or I leave but it's just a weird experience and something that I just can't explain. All that I can say is that I have definitely made some excellent friends out here and know that they will be friends for a long time to come.

After travelling to Entebbe and dropping Hazel and Sophie at the airport - cue the waterworks again laura - and collecting some new arrivals, I got dropped at Entebbe backpackers with a girl called Catherine, also doing the safari, although travelling all the way to Cape Town, whom we had found at the airport!There I left Benji and started the second part of my trip - my overland safari!

We spent Saturday night being briefed about the trip and the truck that we're in and just geeting to know everyone. There's 22 of us on the truck together with out leader Julius and our driver Dixon. There's 5 couples - although they're not at all coupley which is good and just fit in with the group as indivduals, 2 pairs of friends and then 8 of us who have just come on our own.

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Laura_Smith on July 18, 2009 from Entebbe, Uganda

from the travel blog: Laura's little summer break

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