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Kampala, Uganda
May. 25th, 2012 12:19 pmThis weekend we are going out to Murchison Falls and staying at Chobe and Paraa and doing a safari drive and a boat trip. A two night wkend outing, when most of the time we have just been doing one night. This is a longer drive too - 3.5 hrs.
http://www.chobelodgeuganda.com/
The lodge looks nice - we are going to stay in fancy tents down at the river. In the evening apparently hippos wander by. Sarah is here from the US. Also we planned a small stopover on our way back to Joburg - we'll be staying in Rwanda! Probably not the usual vacation hotspot, but I'm sure it will be interesting.
I finished reading the two books of short stories by African women writers. I also read Rian Malan's book called Resident Alien. Now I am reading The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, he is from Ghana. The bookstores here do not have big sections filled with local writers, or even African writers. Several books by African writers that I want aren't available. I read a statistic that Uganda publishes fewer than 100 books a year. I'd like to read One Day I Will Write About this Place and also The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street. Books were a little easier to find in Johannesburg.
We went to another pork joint that was excellent - Bamboo Nest. We also had a great meal at Mama Ashanti - west African food, which I think I like better than east African food.
Oh and we also had grasshoppers! bought live and cooked by Charles. They were ok. sort of like small land shrimp.
We have one more week in Uganda.
http://www.chobelodgeuganda.com/
The lodge looks nice - we are going to stay in fancy tents down at the river. In the evening apparently hippos wander by. Sarah is here from the US. Also we planned a small stopover on our way back to Joburg - we'll be staying in Rwanda! Probably not the usual vacation hotspot, but I'm sure it will be interesting.
I finished reading the two books of short stories by African women writers. I also read Rian Malan's book called Resident Alien. Now I am reading The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, he is from Ghana. The bookstores here do not have big sections filled with local writers, or even African writers. Several books by African writers that I want aren't available. I read a statistic that Uganda publishes fewer than 100 books a year. I'd like to read One Day I Will Write About this Place and also The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street. Books were a little easier to find in Johannesburg.
We went to another pork joint that was excellent - Bamboo Nest. We also had a great meal at Mama Ashanti - west African food, which I think I like better than east African food.
Oh and we also had grasshoppers! bought live and cooked by Charles. They were ok. sort of like small land shrimp.
We have one more week in Uganda.
