February 8, 2017: Woke up and found out it was almost 06:30 and everyone was waiting for me so we can go on the early morning game drive as planned. I barely had a shower, rushed into some clothes and sped to meet the rest at the restaurant cum reception area. No time for breakfast,…
February 7, 2017… Up early at about 07:10, freshened up and got ready for the day. We were scheduled to leave for the airport at 09:00 and fly a light aircraft out to Kidepo Valley National Park where we were to spend the next two days. Nina, the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) rep was waiting…
February 6, 2017: Nkiru (Marketing Lead) and I boarded a RwandAir flight WB 203 to Kigali en-route Entebbe for the Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo POATE 2017 scheduled for the 17th to 19th of February in Kampala, Uganda. There wasn’t any drama on the flight – not that I expected any. I mean what kind of drama does anyone…
Back in 1908, a young Winston Churchill dubbed Uganda as the Pearl of Africa in his book My African Journey, but at some point in the nation’s existence it seemed that very pearl was being trampled underfoot during the tyranny of Idi Amin and the wars that ensued afterwards. However, those days are in the distant past now…
