Woooh!
It’s been quite an amazing disasters couple of days. As it being our first time planning free travel we’ve learned many valuable lessons. The most important being:
1-It’s not as easy as it sounds
2-Because of number 1 the earlier you plan the better.
3-Little to nothing (more of the latter) works out as planned despite how hard you’ve worked, so roll, roll, and keep on rolling with the punches.
The Matatu that was supposed to pick us up at 3:45 am (in order to get us casually across the boarder) didn’t show up until 6:30am, forcing us to accept that we were not crossing into Rwanda that day. To our advantage (this was another blessing in disguise) we ended up staying in the beautiful small city of Kabale, just 30 minutes outside the Rwandan boarder.
Once in Kabale we stayed at this epic hostel Edirisa, which means window in the local language. The hostel is a CBO whose main goal is to emphasize community development. There we met the man who created this CBO, headed and funded the hostel. He suggested we take an extra day to explore our gorgeous surroundings. We took his advice and the postponed the Rwanda trip for another day to see Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is truly a treasure in Uganda. We canoed across the beautiful lake and spent the day cooking, working, and discovering more about the local women’s traditions and life style. It was AMAZING! Our day concluded with making various crafts out of papyrus grass and as always getting our groove on to some local beats! There was no better way to spend our accidental extra-extra last day in Uganda!
From there we finally had ourselves organized and headed off to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, which is where we are now. Kigali has been intense and shocking in many ways. The modern fast pace of this city took us all by surprise. It’s almost like being back in the US (or Canada for Kirst) with the double-foam-grande-mocha frappuccino and Mercedes that are parked on every street. Nonetheless we all smiles and soooooooo stoked for our Tanzanian Safari adventure. Everyone sends there love.
Miss you mom and dad and gamma and shmay.
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