Who Ganda?

U Ganda!

or Buganda. or Luganda. one being the country, another the kingdom and another the language. however you say it, it's better than Tanzania.

we didn't like tanzania so much. i mean, sure, zanzibar was idyllic and the serengetti -- wow! have you tasted monkey? but dar es salaam? try dar is slum. so hot you could fry an egg on your buttocks.

and buttock eggs are not so good. no. not good.

remind me to tell you about our thanksgiving sauna. i mean meal. it was great. we didn't miss home then at all.

but hey! we're in uganda! in uganda, everything is better. from the states, i thought uganda would be the type of place where i could get my hands removed but it's much nicer than that (easy mom, it's fine). people are friendly, they speak english, Kampala is nice and modern and clean and they KNOW HOW TO COOK. also, there are other people here we like. to talk to.

they also have much better computers so we're posting some of the rotten scans we had made in dar is slum. please try to imagine these taken with a nice camera and scanned with modern equipment, as opposed to what these look like -- something you found in gramma's attic. really. they're nice. we're almost sure. sorry they look like old issues of boy's life magazine.

what we have here are photos of the first five weeks of our trip. they start in Zanzibar. First at Shooting Star Lodge on Kiwengwa beach, then up to Nungwi and Kendwa in the north and then down to Stown Town. After that, the photos show our eight day safari through Arusha National Park, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, the Serengetti, Ngorongoro Crater and out to romp with the Hadzabe at Lake Eyasi. After our safari, we went to Lushoto in the Usambara Mountains and there may be a photo or two of that. Then we went back to Dar is Slum and paid good money to fly away. to Uganda.

Did I mention we like Uganda? We do.