Adventures in Travel - Tanzania group

I see that the Victoria Falls-bound group posted an update, so I thought that I should tell everyone about what happened after they bid us farewell at the Lusaka Airport. Stan - time to get your atlas out again!

Sarah and I were supposed to fly from Lusaka to Nairobi (with a quick touch-down in Lilongwe, Malawi) and then on to Entebbe (Uganda). Well, after landing in Lilongwe and sitting on the tarmac for 1 1/2 hours, we learned that the runway was "broken" and that we would have to wait for an inspection and approval before we could take off. 2 hours after that (at approximately the same time as we were supposed to be leaving Nairobi for Entebbe), we finally departed. Having missed our connecting flight, we joined the queue with everyone else in the same situation, and were re-booked on a flight the next morning.

Kenya Airways then told us that they would cover our costs for the night, and paid for our stay in a 5-star hotel in downtown Nairobi, plus dinner, plus transportation to and from the hotel! Much nicer (and cheaper for us) than the guesthouse we had planned in Entebbe!

Our flight got in to Entebbe late-morning, and we didn't want to risk trying to make the journey by bus as it is a full-day trip from Kampala (Uganda) to Bukoba (Tanzania). So we splurged on a taxi to the border, arriving at about 3:45 pm, where we met up with the Kampala-Bukoba bus, arriving in Bukoba, safely and with all of our luggage (!) at about 6:45pm last night.

So we are now visiting friends for the week, and have our return bus tickets to Kampala booked for next Wednesday, where we will catch our flights back to Canada!

Posted by: Kate.