{"id":187309,"date":"2017-11-29T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/?p=187309"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:04:07","slug":"uganda-road-trip-green-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Uganda #2: When the Green Paradise Turns Into Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"It was supposed to be a story about animals. When we set out that morning to find rhinos at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, I was already writing an article in my head about a green paradise in Africa. But then I encountered the other face of this Uganda road trip \u2014 the one that can cost you your life.\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51302\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9160-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Rhinos were completely wiped out here in the 1970s, and now they&#039;re trying to bring them back.\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhinos were completely wiped out here in the 1970s, and now they&#8217;re trying to bring them back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After watching the rhinos, we immediately set off on a gruelling multi-hour drive to Murchison Falls National Park, where our private boat to the waterfalls was leaving at half past three.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"14denn\u00ed roadtrip po Ugand\u011b:  Safari\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JtRxwnHo9rI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We pulled up to the gate and bought our park entry permits. For Ugandans, it&#8217;s $5 a day. For us, it was $40 per person plus another five dollars for the car \u2014 and if you exceed 24 hours, they charge you the full entry fee again. Remember that detail. We&#8217;ll come back to it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51304\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9203-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The road into Murchison Falls National Park is dreadful, but never boring. Monkeys leap around you the entire way.\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The road into Murchison Falls National Park is dreadful, but never boring. Monkeys leap around you the entire way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#Ugandas_Death_Drive\" >Uganda&#8217;s Death Drive<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#Help_Can_Take_Up_to_Three_Hours\" >Help Can Take Up to Three Hours<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#But_We_Told_Him_to_Drive_Slowly\" >But We Told Him to Drive Slowly<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#Punished_for_Helping_Others\" >Punished for Helping Others<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#When_Hippos_Wander_Around_Your_Tent\" >When Hippos Wander Around Your Tent<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#Forgiveness_%E2%80%94_But_Not_for_Long\" >Forgiveness \u2014 But Not for Long<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#Drive_Like_a_Maniac_But_Try_Not_to_Kill_Us\" >Drive Like a Maniac, But Try Not to Kill Us<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda-road-trip-green-paradise\/#Ants_for_Breakfast\" >Ants for Breakfast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ugandas_Death_Drive\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ugandas_Death_Drive\">Uganda&#8217;s Death Drive<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An unpaved road riddled with deadly potholes winds through the park, with a speed limit of 40 km\/h. We crawl along \u2014 the road is truly horrendous and takes an hour and a half to cover. Monkeys bounce around everywhere and we have no reason to hurry. Then a white minibus hurtles past us \u2014 tourists with a hired Ugandan driver. Hardly anyone self-drives here like we do. Driving is absolute hell: pothole after pothole, and now in the rainy season, the worst ones are muddy craters filled with water. That&#8217;s why most people opt for local drivers. It&#8217;s one of those things everyone tells you before a trip to Uganda. We didn&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51305\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9222-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Olive Baboons \u2014 you can only see them in Uganda\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive Baboons \u2014 you can only see them in Uganda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n&#8220;Ugandans drive like absolute maniacs,&#8221; we comment on the white minibus&#8217;s speed, continuing at our snail&#8217;s pace and laughing at the crazy monkeys. We have plenty of time.\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Help_Can_Take_Up_to_Three_Hours\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Help_Can_Take_Up_to_Three_Hours\">Help Can Take Up to Three Hours<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shock. For a moment, I don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s happening. We stop. Ahead of us, we see an overturned minibus with smashed windows. Blood glistens among the shards of glass. A bald man clutches his head, streams of red pouring down his face as he staggers aimlessly. Someone lies on the ground in a pool of blood. I notice the Ugandan driver sitting calmly on the grass nearby, chewing on a blade of grass, while the less injured passengers try to give first aid to the woman on the ground. They run towards us. They have no phone signal to call for help. We can&#8217;t load her into our car \u2014 we&#8217;re afraid of making her injuries worse. We quickly turn around, drive a few metres, and catch a signal. We dial 911. Nothing. A long silence. Someone finally picks up. And immediately hangs up. This happens several times.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51328\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9183-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic in Uganda might seem amusing, but it&#039;s extremely dangerous\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic in Uganda might seem amusing, but it&#8217;s extremely dangerous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nWe drive back for help. Thirty minutes back to the gate. We keep trying to call but no one answers.\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"But_We_Told_Him_to_Drive_Slowly\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"But_We_Told_Him_to_Drive_Slowly\">But We Told Him to Drive Slowly<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the gate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There&#8217;s been a serious car accident on the road. A woman is unconscious, unresponsive, there&#8217;s a lot of blood, and no one can get through. Please call a doctor or an ambulance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We unload all of this on the ranger, but he just stares at us, clearly thinking about something else entirely. We repeat it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The car accident from yesterday?&#8221; a female soldier who&#8217;d wandered over asks into the calm silence that&#8217;s now grating on our nerves. I stare at her wide-eyed and repeat everything again. &#8220;No, a car accident right NOW!!! The Ugandan driver was doing 80 km\/h!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51301\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GOPR3458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GOPR3458-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ugandans are genuinely lovely people, but the moment you need something sorted \u2014 forget about it.\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ugandans are genuinely lovely people, but the moment you need something sorted \u2014 forget about it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But we told him to drive slowly,&#8221; says Ranger Donald in a calm voice. It doesn&#8217;t look like he intends to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Yes, we told him,&#8221; the soldier agrees, gazing off into the distance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We stare at them, wondering if this conversation is actually real, and remind them of the situation \u2014 a woman lying unconscious in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hmm. That is serious.&#8221; The soldier ponders this for a moment. Nobody does anything. We repeat ourselves a hundred times until Ranger Donald declares: &#8220;But there&#8217;s probably no one around here to call.&#8221; He shrugs and walks off to fetch the visitor&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This absurd situation drags on for an hour. First they look through the registry to figure out who it was, debating whether they remember them. Only after half an hour do they finally call for help. The ambulance arrives after three hours \u2014 but by then the woman had regained consciousness and they&#8217;d managed to load her into a car leaving the park and rush her to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51324\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9472-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Driving in Uganda is only for the brave. This is what the roads to the national parks look like.\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driving in Uganda is only for the brave. This is what the roads to the national parks look like.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Punished_for_Helping_Others\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Punished_for_Helping_Others\">Punished for Helping Others<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But our story doesn&#8217;t end there. Because of the whole ordeal, we missed our boat. And we needed to stay an extra day. Here&#8217;s where we circle back to the beginning: exceeding 24 hours means paying the entry fee all over again. We go to the rangers and ask them to change our arrival date \u2014 surely they won&#8217;t make us pay $85 for helping deal with a car accident in their park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t change it. It&#8217;s an official document.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We stare at the hand-scrawled scrap of paper from a receipt pad, wondering if they&#8217;re serious. There is no other record \u2014 no computer, no system \u2014 just this hand-written slip of paper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Then tear it up and write a new one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t do that. It&#8217;s an official document.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We tried for a while, but as far as they were concerned, the discussion was over. Not for me, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t be serious. We&#8217;re here helping at a car accident in YOUR park, caused by a UGANDAN driver, and you&#8217;re going to make us pay an extra $85?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But you weren&#8217;t in the accident,&#8221; says Donald. I stare at him. Lightning bolts are about to shoot from my eyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;So you&#8217;re going to punish us for helping people? And now we have to pay $85 for another day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We argue with them for two hours. He spends an hour on the phone with his supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51327\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9891-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Official documents in Uganda\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official documents in Uganda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The only thing I could do is change the date for you, but you&#8217;d have to come back tomorrow at the same time as today. I can&#8217;t change the time!&#8221; This is, of course, absurd for us \u2014 what would we do until tomorrow afternoon, and more importantly, we&#8217;d have to cancel our plans. We already knew we wouldn&#8217;t make it to see the chimpanzees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The absurdity could have gone on forever, but a hand-written piece of paper simply cannot be cancelled or changed. So I told them exactly what I thought of them and their system, and we drove into the park. After another two hours of arguing with his supervisor, Luk\u00e1\u0161 managed to negotiate a six-hour extension until 7 PM the following day. And that brought us yet another nightmare. It&#8217;s the reason we ended up driving through hell at night. But that&#8217;s a story for another time.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Planning a trip to Uganda is complicated, and finding a decent guidebook is even harder. We&#8217;ll save you the trouble \u2014 the best one in our opinion is <a class=\"thirstylink\" title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uganda by Andrew Roberts<\/a>, which you can order online. We couldn&#8217;t recommend it more highly.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_Hippos_Wander_Around_Your_Tent\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_Hippos_Wander_Around_Your_Tent\">When Hippos Wander Around Your Tent<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were exhausted, furious at this country, at the system, and ready to tell anyone with a smile on their face that they live in a green, cursed, malaria-ridden, chaotic hell.<\/p>\nBut then we arrived at Red Chilli Camp.\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pumba \u2014 an adorable African warthog \u2014 trotted around us while we pitched our tent. In all the fury, we didn&#8217;t even stop to think it might be dangerous. It gazed at us with those big round eyes as if trying to win us over. The whole camp, with its excellent restaurant and jaw-dropping views, was a little slice of paradise in this unpredictable country. We forgave Uganda. We ate well and drank Nile beer late into the night \u2014 because this time a family of hippos had claimed our tent, and we didn&#8217;t dare go anywhere near them.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51306\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9225-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Morning view from Red Chilli Camp at Murchison Falls\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning view from Red Chilli Camp at Murchison Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We met Joe and Alex from Britain, who&#8217;d been volunteering in Uganda and were now travelling. A photographer and a songwriter. Our poetic evening with the two artists ended when our tent was finally free, the hippos had gone off to sleep, and we crawled into our sleeping bags with peaceful hearts, knowing we couldn&#8217;t just write this country off.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forgiveness_%E2%80%94_But_Not_for_Long\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forgiveness_But_Not_for_Long\">Forgiveness \u2014 But Not for Long<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The morning brought a gorgeous red sunrise. If there was any anger left in us towards this green paradise, it vanished with the first glimpse of that rich crimson sky.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51309\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9233-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"There&#039;s probably nothing more beautiful than the Nile at dawn\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There&#8217;s probably nothing more beautiful than the Nile at dawn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first light, we crossed the River Nile to reach the safari area. We all stand on the ferry \u2014 really more of a floating iron raft \u2014 gazing at the Nile through the morning mist as sunbeams fight their way through.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51307\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9229-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"It&#039;s about 17 degrees, but for Ugandans that&#039;s bitterly cold. We&#039;re in T-shirts and they&#039;re wearing woolly hats.\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s about 17 degrees, but for Ugandans that&#8217;s bitterly cold. We&#8217;re in T-shirts and they&#8217;re wearing woolly hats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The romance ends the moment the raft grinds against the opposite bank. One of the rangers hurries us into the car, jumps in himself, and together we spend four hours rattling down dirt tracks on our first ever African safari.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51320\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9415-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"View from a boat cruising on the Nile\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from a boat cruising on the Nile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elephants, giraffes, antelopes, and warthogs pose for us as if they&#8217;d rehearsed it. In the afternoon, we hop on a boat heading to the waterfalls and experience the whole show all over again. The boat cruise to the falls is supposed to be the highlight of Murchison Falls National Park, but we&#8217;re a bit disappointed \u2014 you don&#8217;t actually get that close to them.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51321\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1_IMG_9426-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"While the Asian elephant is a calm and gentle creature, the African elephant is dangerous\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the Asian elephant is a calm and gentle creature, the African elephant is dangerous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Drive_Like_a_Maniac_But_Try_Not_to_Kill_Us\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Drive_Like_a_Maniac_But_Try_Not_to_Kill_Us\">Drive Like a Maniac, But Try Not to Kill Us<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We dock at quarter to six. Why am I mentioning this? Because we&#8217;d argued our way to a 7 PM extension, giving us just an hour and fifteen minutes to reach the gate. The drive normally takes an hour and a half.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51323\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9460-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Murchison Falls\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murchison Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Well, if you drive a bit faster, you&#8217;ll make it,&#8221; the ranger winks as we step off the boat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Maybe, if we do 60 instead of 40 km\/h,&#8221; Luk\u00e1\u0161 nods reluctantly. We&#8217;re not exactly thrilled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Nah, more like 80 km\/h,&#8221; he grins. And we think to ourselves \u2014 some ranger, encouraging us to get ourselves killed.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51311\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9239.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9239-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Morning on the &quot;ferry&quot; across the Nile\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning on the &#8220;ferry&#8221; across the Nile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But we drive as fast as we can. We&#8217;re not just fighting the clock \u2014 we&#8217;re racing the light. In an hour, we won&#8217;t be able to see the road at all. This is the road from hell. At least one crash happens here every single day, and driving faster than you should feels like utter madness. Tearing down this road in the dark is several levels beyond that.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51312\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9261-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pumba, or the African warthog\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumba, or the African warthog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luk\u00e1\u0161 grips the steering wheel with white knuckles while I clutch the passenger seat and will the clock to slow down. We make it. It&#8217;s 6:57 and the gate opens. But our journey doesn&#8217;t end there. In the pitch-black darkness, we crawl down dirt tracks for another three and a half hours to the town of Hoima. We drive at walking pace. Everything terrifies us. The road \u2014 which can barely be called a road \u2014 would be passable for a tank maybe, but certainly not for our Toyota.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51319\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9391-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"We did see the hippos during the day too\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We did see the hippos during the day too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around us lies what must be beautiful jungle by day, but now it just terrifies us. Electricity is still a massive luxury out here, switched on for only a few hours a day. Darkness is everywhere \u2014 but life isn&#8217;t absent. We see boisterous celebrations in villages huddled around tiny flickers of light, and the roads aren&#8217;t empty either. Silhouettes of people walking home stretch through this hellish jungle alongside us.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51316\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51316 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9361-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"After the game drive, you return to the raft-ferry where more tourists sit listening to locals playing instruments and selling souvenirs.\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the game drive, you return to the raft-ferry where more tourists sit listening to locals playing instruments and selling souvenirs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ants_for_Breakfast\"><\/span><b><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ants_for_Breakfast\">Ants for Breakfast<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we finally limp into Hoima, we&#8217;re slightly relieved that we don&#8217;t plan anything in advance. Otherwise, we&#8217;d probably have driven all night to Fort Portal, where we&#8217;d originally intended to spend the night. The Golden Summit Hotel in Hoima costs next to nothing and is rated as the best hotel in the wider area. But the wider area must consist entirely of sheds, because we can&#8217;t explain it any other way.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_51322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51322\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loudavymkrokem.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9451-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda is also a popular destination for birdwatching\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uganda is also a popular destination for birdwatching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We never complain about hotels. It really doesn&#8217;t take much to make us happy. But this place started badly, continued badly, and ended badly \u2014 so badly that I can&#8217;t write anything except that we should have driven the extra seven hours to Fort Portal. First, the Google Maps address was wrong and we spent an hour trying to find the place. Then the reception had no idea where their own restaurant was (&#8220;Hmm, I think if you go round this corner, you&#8217;ll find it&#8221;). The room finished us off \u2014 furniture literally fell apart in our hands. The broken WiFi couldn&#8217;t surprise us anymore, but ants in the breakfast? That we genuinely didn&#8217;t see coming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was as if Uganda couldn&#8217;t decide what impression to leave on us. And we had no idea what we&#8217;d take away from it either.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Planning a trip to Uganda is complicated, and finding a decent guidebook is even harder. We&#8217;ll save you the trouble \u2014 the best one in our opinion is <a class=\"thirstylink\" title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/uganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uganda by Andrew Roberts<\/a>, which you can order online. 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