Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Finally some R&R

Sunday morning we drove to Jinja, there is some amazing shopping here and everything is quite inexpensive.  The conversion from shillings to dollars is still confusing, but 20,000 shilling is about $5.70.  I bought way more than I planned, some early Christmas shopping!

The places we are staying are much nicer, it's just that there aren't many options in the poorer region where we did clinics.  I'm very sleep deprived at this point and wondering how work will feel on Monday.  The food has been good, had some Indian food and Italian.  I tried a new fruit called jackfruit, which is very strange in texture but tasted pretty good.   There is a pineapple soda called Novida which is really good and I hope I can bring a few bottles back for my kids to try.   Also tried some cooked bananas which looked like mashed potatoes.

We did a night time safari tonight and saw plenty of water buffalo, giraffe, birds, and things that resemble deer.  We also saw a leopard and a python.  It's very beautiful and relaxing.  Tomorrow we are at also doing safari, hopefully I will have some pictures (my phone was dead today).

Oh - and one of my favorite things was a boda ride!  A boda is like a taxi-motorcycle.  It costs all of 4000 shilling for both Morgan and I to ride into town from a shop we were at (a 15 minute ride, barely over $1.00).



 


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