I sip water, eat a few crackers, doze a bit, wake up and do both again, several times before I get in the door. I then set up a table next to my bed with a pitcher of iced water, a glass with a flex straw and a bowl full of Club Crackers. I doze in bed but tend to wake up off and on, never getting into a deep sleep.
Entebbe. Often used as a retreat from busy Kampala, colonial Entebbe lies on the peaceful shores of Lake Victoria. Home of the only international airport in Uganda, it provides an attractive welcome to new visitors and a good way to âacclimatiseâ to Africa. The word âEntebbeâ means âseatâ in the local Luganda language, thought to be as this is where the Baganda Chief sat to adjudicate legal cases.
Buganda - a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom. Entebbe - a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers) Jinja - a city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria. Gulu - a city in northern Uganda. Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean. Lake Edward - a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda.