{"id":1424,"date":"2020-12-24T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melanditravel.com\/2020\/12\/december-20-and-21-farewell-to-uganda-and-hamza\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T10:48:24","slug":"december-20-and-21-farewell-to-uganda-and-hamza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/2020\/12\/december-20-and-21-farewell-to-uganda-and-hamza\/","title":{"rendered":"December 20 and 21 &#8211; Farewell to Uganda and Hamza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Our last hours in Uganda began with a drive to Entebbe to have another Covid test done. After the test we went to our last accommodation. Here we had one more night to relax a bit and prepare for departure &#8211; some laundry and such. Hamza led us again through the neighborhood and to the shore of Lake Victoria. Again he had a lot to tell and Mel took the opportunity to buy cigarettes (3500 Ugandan Shillings per pack &#8230; about 80 cents). The next day we went to the airport and there we had to say goodbye &#8211; the men seemed to find this especially difficult. Hamza had to say goodbye to his &#8220;Silverback&#8221; and Andreas to his &#8220;Brother from another mother&#8221;. Check-in and co. were a bit chaotic and the staff at the airport seemed a bit incompetent &#8211; everybody told something different. In the end, however, we were on the right plane.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"441\" class=\"wp-image-441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-1222x1629.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-922x1229.jpg 922w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-675x900.jpg 675w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7401-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Crossing the equator for the last time<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"440\" class=\"wp-image-440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-1222x917.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-922x692.jpg 922w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-675x506.jpg 675w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7419-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Looks like new again<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"442\" class=\"wp-image-442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-1222x917.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-922x692.jpg 922w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-675x506.jpg 675w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7434-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The cigarette shopping mile by the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"439\" class=\"wp-image-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-1222x917.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-922x692.jpg 922w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-675x506.jpg 675w, https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_7429-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">If you ever plan a trip to Uganda, you should contact http:\/\/www.mamalandsafaris.com and ask for Hamza &#8211; it&#8217;s definitely worth it!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to take this opportunity to wish all relatives, acquaintances, friends, colleagues and loved ones a Merry Christmas. See you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our last hours in Uganda began with a drive to Entebbe to have another Covid test done. After the test we went to our last accommodation. Here we had one more night to relax a bit and prepare for departure &#8211; some laundry and such. Hamza led us again through the neighborhood and to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,80,121],"tags":[85,84,122],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-travel","category-uganda-en","tag-goodbye","tag-travel","tag-uganda-en","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanditravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}