Arua town, looking as photoshopped vibrant as always. The big, green-roofed, white building toward the top left has a bar/hangout place where they always show bad Nigerian movies. Three buildings to the left of that is the “Arua Supermarket” – where you can, as of two days ago, buy ice-cream and canned chickpeas! If you were to continue off the image toward the left (which I think is south) you would reach the post office, Arua local government offices, the catholic center, the hospital, the paved road looping round the golf course (and in the direction of my house), and an apiary called “bee natural” (love it!). If you continue to the right, in the photo, you’ll reach the Indian restaurant, the mosque, Hotel Pacific, Arua Radio One, and other areas I don’t really explore.
I’m more or less unfamiliar with everything in the bottom left quadrant of the image, all the way over to the big white bus (side note: this bus company is owned by a controversial guy who has ties with the Congolese diamond trade. My driver tells me that he’s also been responsible for feeding UPDF at some point…). The long road cutting the image diagonally in half forms a border to the various markets within the middle of town and the right half of the image. Look above and behind the storefronts lining the paved road at the flurry of activity that is the Arua market! This place is a jungle of intimidating awesomeness that has everything from (white) Barbie dolls, to shoes made of tires, to pomegranates, to giant Nile Perch. My favorite area is the covered row that sells beautiful and exotic kitenge fabric from Congo…
More of Arua from the air: The Catholic Center:
Greener parts of the country, further south:
Above Entebbe airport and Lake Victoria:
::I hope you’ve enjoyed this journey traversing Uganda – Arua to Entebbe – with the internet, thank you, come again::
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