Getting to Kyamagemule

Remote is an understatement. This small village is about four hours northeast of Kawuku, the place where we are lodging. Driving to Kampala is not a problem but getting through it takes at least an hour if we’re lucky. From Kampala, another hour through the lush, green jungles of Africa – a few shacks sprinkle the roadside. The people come out of these narrow, overgrown bush trails leading to their hut homes to walk the miles of road to the nearest water source.

At the fork, another hour of that canyonous road was tempted to reach up and bottom out our car. The branches from the greenery slapped our faces through the car window. The children walking along that road run into the bushes to avoid being struck. A few more forks that require some serious knowledge of where you are, and the ability to speak multiple African languages, and we arrive very dusty but safely.

Just a note for the faint of bladder. Africa on the whole has few restrooms and even fewer of those are a place you’d actually even want to stand up and pee. So, drink a lot of water because it’s hot and dusty then hold it for a four hour drive, a four hour visit, and a four hour return drive. Next, fight over who gets to use the bathroom first…in a loving Christian kind of way.