Lake Victoria Stories


The Islands of Lake Victoria

We spent 4 nights at Osanidde Orphanage in tents under a gazebo because the cabins that were supposed to house us were infested with bats. Go figure. It wasn’t bad at all though because of the air coming of the lake it is nice and cool at night. Our days were spent away from the orphanage fulfilling other obligations. We arrived on Saturday and that...


Call of the War Drums

Today, I took a bus to Entebbe and met up with Luke from Holland, who runs a boat service on Lake Victoria. We agreed to meet at the Four Turkeys restaurant at 10am, at which point he would ferry me out to the Sese islands. He was a good guy, pleased and at peace with himself for leaving his stressed life behind him in Rotterdam and embracing his new ...