Our arrival in Uganda is rather low key. For all its infamous reputation from the Idi Amin days and the 1976 Israeli raid, Entebbe is a genteel, rather sleepy town on the shores of Lake Victoria. Its long driveways and lush gardens hide large colonial era bungalows. Only the wreckage of the aeroplane partially destroyed during the 1976 raid, still lying near the airport, reminds us of Uganda’s troubled past.
The two hour drive to Kampala, the capital, reveals a somewhat less hectic, greener, more organized city than we have been used to in other large African cities.
