Ugandan souvenirs in Kampala

Ugandan carvings.

Haruna Kasule, our guide, took us to a central located touristic market. A very nice one called Craft Market closed to the Watoto church (a reference in Kampala).
Carvings, leather bags, clothes, spears and other typical Ugandan articles can be found there.

I took myself some home. Yay!

Ugandan carvings.

Bus from Kampala in Uganda to Bukoba in Tanzania

It's Christmas Day and Job and I are in the bus from Kampala to Bukoba in Tanzania. I'm really happy it is a bus and not a tiny and narrow matatu. There is even a flat screen TV in it! Wow!

Time to hit the road.

Our flat entertainment. Yes!

The journey is supposed to take 7 hours and costed 60.000 ush ( approx. 18€). The bus is taking the route down south along the border of the Victoria Lake.

Arriving there we still have to find a place to spend the night.

Merry Christmas all peeps!

Uncommon piece-of-art in the Uganda museum

A condom box.

Two interesting things I saw in the Uganda museum. More exactly in the toilet. See pictures!

The first one a condom box. Unexpected for me since the Africans are very conservative concerning the use of condoms, mainly for religious reasons. Anyway, very positive since one can have a condom anonymously and no one else would know about it, what is their biggest concern.

The second one was this "urine sample collector". Besides its engineered construction I just asked myself which kind of tests they would do and with which purpose.
Just for the records, no I didn't pee in there! :)

Funny!
Cheers everyone!

Yes! It is a condom box.

The "urine collector".

Uganda and its capital Kampala

Now that I'm sitting in the bus leaving Kampala with destination Bukoba in Tanzania its time to write down the impressions I'm taking with me.

Entering Unganda. The Tororo rock.

Uganda the land of bananas and groundnuts. A green and chaotic country. The land of the Buganda Kings. Besides the local African people a considerable population of Indian and Arabs can be met in the country. Here one can hear many stories about the atrocities related to the political leaders.

Kampala and its contrasts are shocking. Slums and shopping mals, boraboras (motorcycle taxis) and classy cars.

Kampala viewed from the Minaret of the Gadaffi's Mosque.

Market in Kampala.

Here one can walk up the stairs of the minaret of the third biggest mosque in the world. It was presented to the town by Moamar Gadaffi and finished shortly before his dead. The Gadaffi mosque. A guided visit for wazungu (white men or non Africans) costs 10.000 ush (approx. 3€) and Africans enter for free.

Chandelier in the Gadaffi Mosque.

The Bugandan Kings are buried in Kampala in the Kisuko tombs. A guided tour costs 10.000 ush for wazungu and 2.000 ush for Africans (0,60 Ct). It's worthy seeing it.

Entrance to the Bugandan Kingdom.

Ugandan carvings.

The Ugandan museum, the parliament and a walk through the town can be very interesting and can give a feeling about the life in Kampala. We were l lucky to meet Kasule Haruna, a young man, who showed us the city.

At the bus station: leaving Kampala.

I'm leaving Kampala with mixed feelings about it. People is welcoming and live in an incredible poverty.
Being here was a great experience though. Indeed!

Cheers!