Zebbe took us around the town briefly on Wednesday mainly for us to get some money and get a feel for the place. First impressions - busy! At around 5pm lots of people were heading home from work, cars, taxis, buses everywhere and motorbikes! Lots and lots of motorbikes! We ended up at Endiro's Cafe for a meal - we'd worry about the shopping tomorrow!
Thursday afternoon it was back in to town to tackle it for real! June and I were armed with our Ugandan shilling and shopping bags ready for the Central Market! Now you'd think that buying some fruit and vegetables would be a fairly straight forward task but throw in finding out which stalls to go to, our not so quick exchange rate discussions and our rather rusty kg converters - it took a while! We reappeared with a healthy bag of carrots, green peppers, peas, avocado, oranges, tomatoes, watermelon and enough onion garlic and ginger to last our entire stay!
I will say an offer of 'Bitter Root' took us by surprise, but buoyed by our success so far, we looked at each other and agreed to give it a go. Five seconds later, two small beetroot landed in my hand!
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| June sorting out the chopping! |
Saturday, Apollo took us out for a drive around the town as there are quite a few neighbourhoods surrounding Mbale. I've noted some of the names - its just going to take me a bit longer to plot them all on a map! It is quite humbling to drive through slum areas as well as the nicer wealthier suburbs, all of it in stark contrast to our lives back at home in the UK.
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| 'Downtown' |
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| Just some passing cattle |
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| View towards Mount Elgon |
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