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So today is Martyrs day and the original plans were to go and see the festivities but after talking to a local woman we were advised otherwise.
Instead we went and visited Lake Victoria which is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after the United Kingdom's Queen Victoria, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to see the lake. With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake, and the largest tropical lake in the world, and is Earth's second largest freshwater lake - Only North America's Lake Superior is larger. In terms of volume, it is the world’s eighth largest continental lake, containing 2,750 cubic kilometres (2.2 billion acre-feet) of water. (Thanks Wikipedia!)
After seeing Lake Victoria we went to a beautiful Lodge called Cassia Lodge which is known for the best view in Kampala. And boy were they right!! had a fantastic lunch, carbonara, which was different than my Aunt Sarah's not as good but it was just a little too different to start getting picky! And I finally decided to try a coke. Turn out it doesn't taste too different from coke in the US (lucky for me).
But let me tell you a little bit about Martyrs day so you can understand why we didn't go...The Uganda Martyrs were Ugandan Christians who were murdered for their faith. And Martyrs day is celebrated by a two week pilgrimage from my understanding some of these people have been traveling from all over Africa. Grace, from In Movement, who we visited yesterday told us it would be a very bad idea for us because of the crowds and not to mention that we probably wouldn't get out of there for quite some time!
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