Jinja is close to the source of the Nile River where it comes out of Lake Victoria, so after breakfast we walked from our hotel to the Source of the Nile Gardens. The gardens were quite nice, with a series of steps, lined with tourist stalls, down to the bank of the river. The actual source of the Nile wasn’t directly opposite the gardens but a little further upstream, so we walked out onto some steel beams over the river to look towards the source (we chose not to take the boat ride that was on offer). There was also a statue of Gandhi there, as some of his ashes had been scattered into the Nile.
Back at our hotel we booked a taxi to the bus station, at the last minute we decide to get him to take us all the way to Kampala. We had to haggle for a while to get a fair price, having to pay extra for air conditioning, but petrol prices in Uganda are very high so we though it reasonable.
The drive was quite comfortable, and it was a warm day (a real contrast to the rainy day yesterday) so the aircon was very welcome as we approached Kampala. We managed to arrive at the hostel around 2:30pm, pretty good timing and much earlier than if we’d taken the bus.
We took a walk to the bus station down the road to purchase our bus tickets to Kigali (Rwanda), then spent the rest of the afternoon taking advantage of the free wireless to catch up on a few things, as well as getting rid of as many of our plastic bags as possible as we’d read (and heard from other travellers) that plastic bags aren’t allowed in Rwanda.
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