I got up about 10am and felt ok, had some breakfast, said goodbye to Dan. Surfed for a while. Decided to leave the trip until the next day which was just as well as around 1pm I felt so bad I lost my breakfast. Ahhh, much better now! Pity I didnt manage it the night before. I sat around chatting to Joanne, the engish girl we were talking to the previous night. I also found out there was a bus from Kampala to Kisoro 400 km away early the next day which was only 50km from the gorilla tracking place. Perfect, I would head down to the bus office and book my ticket. If I didn’t leave on tuesday I would be stuffed and have to hire a taxi (or special hire) all the way down, costing me a fourtune (ie thirty quid!). I gt ready to leave… and then it started pissing down! Daymn! 2 hours later I got my ass in gear and jumped on a boda into town. Half an hour later I was clutching my bus ticket with strict instructions to be there before 5am which is when it left…. right! I wandered around for a few hours, bought some batteries for my mp3 player, one for my SLR which was hopefully going to make another appearance to capture the gorillas. I went for drinks at the nice posh wifi cafe and wasted money on a lemonade with no sugar (why would the waiter even ask if I didn’t want sugar!?!). They provded sugar, but you will be stirring for hours to get it to dissolve in cold lemonade! I ordered a frappe too (ie icy coffee) and god knows what they brought me. Eventually I got what ordered and carried on futiley stirring. I shouldn’t have paid for that lemonade… The waiter was a trainee, very camp and useless. No tip for joo! I headed back to Red Chili, pausing to buy some food for the bus and some drugs. I stupidly bought treatment for gardia, when I meant bilharzia so that was 4 quid wasted. I also bought 10 valium for 200 schillng, ie 5 pence which are good for if the bus is really, really bad. You just dont care! The camera battery didn’t work, but since I haven’t put a film in it for about 3 years I guess I shouldn’t have been suprised :( I had dinner with Simone and Ohart and packed my bag back up. I also chatted to some english girls heading up to Murchison Falls and gave them the task of retrieving my padlock which I left attached to one of the tents up there. Fingers crossed. I packed my bag, and got my self ready for for the bus journey by charging everything up for the journey. Mp3, camera, phone, Nintendo DS. No boring journey for me if there is nothing to look at!



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