Sunday 14th June: Eldoret Kenya to Jinja Uganda.
We met for breakfast at 9am, had a walk around the grounds (nice
swimming pool) & were on the road at 10am for the journey to
Uganda.
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As
it was a Sunday, the road, which was good tarmac, was relatively quiet
with few heavy Lorries. The distance to Jinja was about 300 kms and took
us about 6 hours (including border crossing) although we were at the
border in about 3 hours. The border crossing was really smooth & only took about 1½ hours. Entering Uganda was our first taste of the
friendly Ugandan people who are absolutely delightful & so
welcoming. We continued our journey to Jinja and our first view of Lake
Victoria. Jinja is where the Nile begins its epic journey north, a
distance of 6700 kms.
We had hoped to stay at the Bujagali Falls area
but the Nile Porch resort had only 1 room available. We did stay and
watch a couple of bunji jumpers and then returned later to the
restaurant for dinner, which was very nice. We had to find a hotel so we
did the rounds in Jinja town itself, finally settling on the Crested
Crane hotel. It would have been nice to spend a few days in Jinja but we
needed to head for Kampala on Monday morning and get new brake pads
fitted, after our incident with brake fade in Kenya.
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