Horrible detours

Today was not meant to be a long drive. We had packed up our stuff with the intention of getting to the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary by about 3 pm. But due to being the short rainy season, a road along the drive was completely flooded, and Josh (our driver) didn't want to risk going through it. This meant we had to do a MASSIVE detour through Kempala. This meant we arrived at about 8:30 pm instead of 3 p.m., and thus couldn't do the Rhino walk. The other bit of irony that hurt is the fact that we would be staying in Kampala tomorrow night. So the additional 5 hours was partly the exact same route we will have to repeat tomorrow, just going the other direction. The constant roadworks and dodgy roads meant that progress was slow. You can look at my travel path to see the detour we had to take. This meant nothing really happened today. I did try to watch a tonne of sports, as it was Saturday. I had the premier league to watch, the boxing was on, and whatever else I could kill time with. We arrived late to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and had to cook, so we did as good a job as we could to ensure we could eat asap, as everyone was very hungry. In the end, though, we didn't eat until about 10 pm, which was unfortunate, but at least we had a decent opportunity for a sleep in tomorrow. To make a bad day worse, the Rugby World Cup final was on, but a series of unfortunate events meant that it was incredibly challenging to watch it. Our first option to watch the game was to hope the camp site had wifi - it didn't. The second option was to find a bar or restaurant nearby the sanctuary that we could escape to for the night, but because we were in the middle of heavily defended Rhino habitat, you couldn't leave without a military escort. So this wasn't an option. Thirdly, we relied on my data that had allowed me to watch hour upon hour of sports all day throughout the bus trip. Yet when we arrived and veered off the main road deep into the forest, my data suddenly dropped out completely, removing our last option to watch the game. This was a horrible circumstance to find ourselves in on the worst day possible. The only way we could watch it was to try and find a replay the next day during the drive. This meant we all had to have our data turned off and not connect to any wifi until we had seen the replay. Unfortunately, this was the only option.Read more