Mbale and Bubulo @ the Kenyan border.

The view from our hotel, The Mt Elgon View Hotel in Mbale, overlooking Mt Elgon.

After we had taken another suicidal trip from Iganga to Mbale, 2 hours north of Lake Victoria, just by the Kenyan border, in a Mutato , Ugandan minibus, which is limited to only 13 persons, but the minibus driver insisted that the 24th person had to get in, we where finally on our way !

Mbale is a very calm and stressfree provincial city just by the Kenyan border, overlooking the magnificent Mt Elgon (4300m). Me and Tobias have spent almost a week in Mbale and Bubulo, and we feel that our research is getting to a closure.

Bubulo is a 40 minute drive with a Mutato from Mbale. Bubulo is the largest village in the Manafwa district with inhabits almost 300.000 people.

Bubulo is probably 150 years behind the Western world when it comes to communication, development and technology. There’s virtually no elektrcity in Bubulo, except some mobilechargers. Mbale has the same problem.

A good example is this last Wednesday was whatching the Champions Leuage Final between Milan- Liverpool, the electricity failed probably 6-7 times during the 90 minutes game, making it virtually impossible to keep track of what was happening in the game. That is the mainproblem in the Mbale area, powershortage. I don’t even know if I’ll be able to copy paste this text into my blogg, because the last time I tried to do it at our Internetcafe here in Mbale, the power shut down after 2 minutes! Its possible that I haft to wait until we come back to Kampala to update the blogg.