Finally... we got to write something!

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Uganda! Welcome to Bwindi!
It's now one month since we arrived - yeah, we arrived late due to issues with our visas in the UK... never mind.
We spent the first few days in Kampala getting a brief introduction to the country, programmes, etc and preparing ourselves for the real adventure! So there we were trying to find good rechargable lamps, gas lamps, gas cylinders for our cooker and so on.
Although we had read a lot about Uganda, our first impression was still quite shocking; it reminded us to Kerala in SW India! So green and with same type of vegetation and climate.
Now, there are two aspects that didn't surprise us at all;
1- how nice everybody is and how willing to help - yeah, we, muzunghus, literally white people and they do say 'hello muzunghu', are asked a slightly higher price for some things but we think it's not as big of an issue as in other places.
2- how crazy the traffic in Kampala is! I thought parts of India were crazy but nothing compare to this. In India it was chaotic but you could kind of see some sort of pattern but in Kampala is just chaotic chaos. Anyway, we were amazed by the fact that after 3 days we were kind of used to it already.
The real adventure started when we travelled to Bwindi. We were lucky that my boss had to go to Kampala on business so he could drive us down rather than us taking the bus and enduring it for 12-hours. We knew where we were heading to when just outside Kampala he stopped on the side of the road, bought bread and said, now we are sorted, we have water, bread and another few things in case something goes wrong and we find ourselves having to stay overnight in the forest! And yes, having a very good 4x4 we had to stop in a little village to fix an issue with the car and, indeed, for around 4-5 hours we drove right through the Queen Elisabeth Park and other forested areas. In summary, with a great car and using the best road we left Kampala at 16:30 and arrived at Bwindi at 03:15!!! completely knackered and, pity, making most of the journey at night so we couldn't see much (Although the sounds were amazing).
I'll leave it here for today but I promise I'll write every few days from now on and I'll upload more pictures and let you know about them - Internet here is great for email but takes ages to upload pictures.
Best wishes to all
J