Just as you cross the border into Uganda, one sees these hundreds of men in Pink shirts
The "pink shirts" are drivers of 2 wheel taxis (called boda-boda) You can ride on the back of a bicycle, a moped, a scooter, or a motorcycle - quaint, eh?
Little children are the MOST adorable in Uganda: they wave to us as we drive by with both hands in the air & both hands waving :)
Adults too wave at us and hold up the universal sign for Peace - occasionally one of them will even yell out Peace!
Smiling people all over
But why were there so many coffin shops in Eastern Uganda?
Most school uniforms are bright pink! And then some navy blues and dark greens
Thick dense jungle foliage (in parts) - very Equatorial
The country has billions of banana trees - it seems the wild trees are banana trees too
Lots of papaya, pineapple, jackfruit, sugarcane & maize
The cattle are very distinct in appearance with loooong starting-out-straight-and-then-curvy horns
Most rural homes are round: made of mud & cow dung with a thatched roof
Yet there are LOTS of brick kilns
...and patches of burnt fields - apparently to prepare for the next season
Bags full of coal standing by the roadsides (for sale)
Storks! On top of buildings - in downtown! In the fields! On garbage dumps! EVERYWHERE! (very very strange sight to see these huge birds all over - flying & landing!)
The national daily - New Horizon - has signboards/billboards at most lampposts: and they are ALL updated DAILY with "Today's Headline" - pretty incredible!!
At truck stops hawkers come to sell you chicken-on-a-stick!
In Kenya they were selling Tusker beer everywhere, here it is Nile Beer (but its still about beer :), i.e. all the hoardings, signage, walls - everything is a commercial for Nile Beer
THE SOURCE OF THE NILE RIVER - yes I swam in it! :)
Crossing the Equator - Did you know: Water poured down a bowl (e.g. toilet flush) flows clockwise in the North & anti-clockwise in the South! And straight down at the Equator! You can actually see all three behaviors a few meters apart from each other, how about that?
