Please pray for:
+ Magnum’s safe journey from Kenya to Kampala
+ Favour upon our search for a vehicle
+ Angela as she returns to UK to sell her house
+ Michele as she returns to South Sudan, via Kampala, from Wales
I took Joshua today, well may be he took me, to the Equator. We took a Boda Boda from Adonai 2 to Kampala Old Taxi Park. A taxi in Kampala isn’t really a taxi, it’s a mini-bus licensed to carry 14-passengers, being a bus service, but there are no bus stops. The conductor hangs out of the window shouting at anyone who happens to be along the roadside, trying to fill the bus. When I say fill the bus that’s not just 14-passengers, 18 is more common.
Anyway I’m going on a bit because to my surprise we got on a coach that was nearly full, so we clambered over all the luggage that was in the aisle to two spare seats on the back row. Well more people got on and seats appeared in the aisle until the bus was really full.
You’ll see from the first pictures that it was no easy task getting out of the taxi park; a 20-minute job of horns blowing and shouting in Buganda; not sure what they were saying, but I guess it was polite.
It took about half-hour to clear Kampala then we travelled at speeds up to 100kph perhaps 120 at times and arrived at the Equator in about 1 and a half hours, about 75 km in all. It was really a non-stop bus for a further 40 or 50 km, but the conductor had agreed to let us get off at the Equator if we paid the full fare to the terminus. So the driver stopped and all the passengers in the aisle got up folded the seats away and we clambered over the luggage again.
We did the photography, saw water drain spirally anticlockwise (I think) a couple of metres into the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern, and straight down the plughole on the Equator - amazing - must check the loo when I get back. Touristy shopping and then lunch of chicken and chips; well that’s what we ordered, but an hour later the lady came and apologised they couldn’t find a chicken, would we have an omelette. Hmm I had scramblers for breakfast, how about a burger please, so we settled into a burger in a bun with tomato slices and raw onion. Chips had gone cold waiting for the chicken. I mean beef burger. LOL Fun times.
See Albums for pictures.