The Link Bus from Kampala to Kasese and Other Stories
For the past three years, my partner, Leela, has been regularly travelling to a peninsula in the far West of Uganda to carry out her PhD research. I had been hearing about the place, the people, and its wildlife for so long that I was beginning to fear that my perception of the place was doomed to remain the one I had formed in my own head, but a couple of months ago I was finally able to visit for a couple of weeks, and experience the Mweya Peninsula for myself. In total I saw 181 species over the 18 days, with 150-ish of those being lifers. But I didn’t want to do a full trip blog for this, I started to write it a couple of times, and it always came out sounding quite “and then we went there, and then we went there”. So, I have decided to frame my trip in 7 short excerpts, as well as one longer story; one which took well over 7 hours and ended any hope of my back remaining functional past 50. That story is a coach journey, and it was just a small part of an incredible trip. I want ...