Comments on: We Asked for Fascinating Stories of Lockdown Abroad. And Wow, Did We Get Them https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/ Uganda & East Africa Travel blog Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66652 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:32:45 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66652 In reply to Walulya kiwanuka Rashid.

You’re right Rashid … I made sure I raced back here when the President first went on TV to discuss Coronavirus.
I was in Entebbe where we had a day’s digital marketing training with Uganda Wildlife Authority. As we took the group photos, the President went on air to announce the closure of schools. I knew I would only have a few days to get back here. As the Link bus stopped in Mubende, dozens of schoolchildren were pushing to get on the bus. Unusually, they allowed some extra passengers to stand in the aisle.
I managed to get back to the forest just in time.
Hope you and the boys are doing okay đŸ™‚

]]> By: Walulya kiwanuka Rashid https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66613 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:45:25 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66613 Hey Nagawa Very lucky covid got you in sunbird hill. no worries of getting the virus

]]> By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66593 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:57:01 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66593 In reply to Harriet Barunga.

Hi Harriet, interesting to read how we are somehow neighbours đŸ™‚ Thanks for making me feel so welcome in your wonderful country. Greetings to your sister and I hope you manage a trip home this year. I am supposed to fly to UK this month but of course flight was cancelled… We #TravelTomorrow

]]> By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66592 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:54:29 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66592 In reply to Herbert Byaruhanga.

Nice to read from you Herbert. I’ve lived on the edge of Kibale Forest for two years now. Every day I see new things. Nature is mind-blowing. We have no TV and no radio and I have read two newspapers in three months but am I bored? IMPOSSIBLE. We count our blessings to be locked in with the natural world and hope to see you back here again before too long.
#StaySafeUG

]]> By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66591 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:51:25 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66591 In reply to Nari.

Honestly Nari, I am grateful every day for living in such a splendid corner of the world, especially during lockdown. We are spoiled – we have the whole place to ourselves (and elephants last night…! And this morning we were woken by chimps!)
We hope to welcome you back again before too long. Greetings to the family #TravelTomorrow

]]> By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66590 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:47:51 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66590 In reply to Dr AB.

Mpola, mpola, we will be patient Dr đŸ™‚
Thanks for dropping by Diary of a Muzungu …

]]> By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66589 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:46:57 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66589 In reply to Richard.

Hi Richard, webale kusiima. Hope you get a chance to visit us one day soon… you would LOVE it here!

]]> By: Dr AB https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66567 Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:06:41 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66567 Very soon life will start all over again. Savannah parks now open for those within the boundaries of the country. Stay home now so that you are able to travel tomorrow. Our Parks are waiting.

]]> By: Richard https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66564 Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:45:55 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66564 This is a well written piece with nice pictures. Keep it up

]]> By: Harriet Barunga https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/expat-life/we-asked-for-fascinating-stories-of-lockdown-abroad-and-wow-did-we-get-them/#comment-66562 Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:27:45 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=18028#comment-66562 Hi Charlotte, thanks for sharing your story. I am so glad to see you are enjoying yourself in Kibale despite lockdown. I come from Fort Portal, that’s my home town about 2kms from Fort Portal town along Kibale Road. I miss home. Lock down got me in Toronto, it’s very different. My sister always put me on video calls showing me how she spends her day doing farming and having monkeys walking around, nice lush area, it’s breathtaking. Every time I am travelling home, when I reach at the tea plantations along Kampala road and start looking at Rwenzori mountains, the cool breeze of the beautiful weather in Fort Portal welcomes me. It’s a pleasant feeling to be home. That’s the bat place to be during lock down. I hope your tourism business picks up soon, otherwise the tourism industry in Uganda has been hit hard. I am certain not only Uganda, but around the world. You are welcome to Tooro, enjoy your stay. I hope to visit in December hoping the airspace opens.

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