Today weve explored Kampala. Pretty much all on foot. After breakfast in a cafe with wi-fi and NGO people, we got a taxi to Garden City, a big shopping mall. There we tried to get a sim-card, which we were unable to do because they needed our passports to register us ("new government regulation"). Instead we bought some water in a supermarket that was indistinguishable from any European supermarket weve been to.
We also visited the Tourist Board to ask for directions. The girl in the office was more present than the staff at the TTB in Arusha. She was present enough to ask us to donate money to a Christian charity and to buy some posters of animals. We politely declined both offers.
Then we walked out into Kampala. Our goal was the Owino market, which we
eventually found, but it was claustrophobic and absolutely overwhelmingly mental. There were people and goods everywhere and it was filthy and hot and infinite and we felt like wed never get out! Mental!
Eventually we managed to escape and walk back toward the Garden City area, along Nile Avenue. We stopped by the National Theatre, which is an art gallery apparently, but we were to tired and it felt too uninviting for exploration.
So we got a boda boda to Emina Pasha, a garden/oasis/posh hotel where we waited for Arnab to come and hang with us.
Also, the traffic in Kampala is absolutely Mental.
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Breakfast at Kawa coffee place in Muyenga.
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| Garden City supermarket |
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| Independence monument, Kampala...seen better days? |
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| Food at Antonio's in Kampala: posho (ugali), beans, spinach, rice. |
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People selling things on the road in Kampala.
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| The Old Taxi Park in Kampala. Look at it. It's mental. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? |
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| Meat at Owino Market |
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| It looks charming but ITS REALLY NOT: Owino market is MENTAL. |
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This is how much fun you can have at Owino Market.
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| Sister being photo bombed at Owino market |
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| Owino market |
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| Traffic in Kampala. |
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| Walking in Kampala |
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