
Uganda: Rafting down the River Nile
I entered Uganda on week two of an amazing overland trip across East Africa. I reflected upon Kenya which had been so much more varied than I had imagined it would be (see my previous blog!) I knew a little about Uganda on entry, for instance it was another former colony of the UK and that Winston Churchill had nicknamed it 'The Pearl of Africa'. I was well aware of the torrid post-Colonial past too, that of the crazy dictator, Idi Amin back in the 1970s. If you haven't seen