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Kingdoms until ‘62 when they got independence

47 languages, 52 different tribes

English and Swahili( official 2nd language). Our guides are Arthur and Paul. They speak 2 different languages but when together speak “Ugandan”

Muzumba is what we all are …white person

Guide says Uganda is best food basket in Africa

Most shopping is done in markets

Coffee, tea, pineapple (export), maize, sugarcane are main crops. The people seem to be quite industrious with many, many shops along the road.

Matooke…. Green bananas. It is a main staple for Ugandans. It’s like potatoes in that it can be boiled, mashed and. fried.

Cassava…,,peel and cook is used as a thickener

Greenhouses for growing flowers for export.

Farmed Eucalyptus trees.

You see hanging beef that is slaughtered daily and then sold to smaller shops. It is then moved to other locations.

You see a groups of men with motorcycles under shelters. They local taxis.

Black-head weaver birds

These guide/drivers are driving very fast compared to the ones we had in Kenya. The roads are much better here though. It seems the motorcycles drive on the shoulders like it is a “bike lane”. When we are doing safari I will probably be different. It will probably be “African massage” much like most of Kenya. Today we have a long way to go.

Drove through an area of road construction. It is a swampy area so they are building platforms to building a bridge over it.

Coffee plantation

In Queen Elizabeth NP there are 13 different kinds of monkeys including chimpanzees. Besides buffalo and ? there are 300 species of birds.

I noticed a big mound of dirt on the ground with smoke coming out. When asked, Arthur said they put green eucalyptus logs on ground along with something else and cover it with dirt. A fire is lit under it which is allowed to burn for 3-4 days. What you get is bbq charcoal.

We see brilliant orange/red trees that dot the hills. I believe they are “Flame trees (small flowers) and African Tulip trees”

Apparently the falls in Murchison Falls NP can be compared to Niagara Falls in Canada. It feeds into Nile River. It is a huge park with all the “Big 5” but we are not going there.

Tea plantations. ….. for export.

Black & white hornbill

Banana leaves for covering food, bark for fibre… weaving, feed the cows with the chopped wood. It takes 1.5 years to produce fruit but 6 months to ripen. Then it never produces again. Only one crop per tree. P

Ross’s Turaco

Prunus africana…. Medicine tree, furniture making and charcoal

Black & white colobus -troupe of 9-15. Hold baby between tree and mom at night. During day … on back. 8 months to gestation… born white but start to change at 3 months

Papyrus for roofing, woven for mats in house. Also ancient Egyptians used it for making paper