We woke up after a delightful night spent in our new pole-less NEMO Meta2P tent, which weighs only two pounds and is incredibly spacious. We walked out the gates of the hostel to get chapatis, a local specialty courtesy of the Indian population here. I had a banana and nutella chapati, and Connor had his with tomato, onion, and an omelet. They come all wrapped up burrito-style and they are delicious. We walked down with Megan to see the actual falls, which were beautiful- there was a guy there offering to take us out onto the Nile in a boat, and then later offering to ride an empty "jerry can" through the rapids "for your entahtainment". Nooooooooo. It's strange to stand out so completely, and to have many people depending upon tourism and your money to make a living. It makes me uncomfortable.
We took a taxi car back to Jinja with Heather, her housemate Chris, and Megan and the five of us roamed around Jinja looking at shops. We had a huge lunch at a local restaurant there and then headed back to Iganga. Jinja is, as Connor said, about an hour ride away from Iganga. It's a much larger but seemingly less crowded town than Iganga, right on Lake Victoria. The best thing about visiting there is probably Chris and Heather's homestay, which has a toilet, a sink, a shower, and a DVD player. Heather's bedroom is also super nice. She has one of those quintessentially safari-like four-poster beds and a really nice dresser area. Now that I've gotten used to our house in Iganga, I'm a little less jealous of this, but still pretty jealous. Let's be real.
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