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May 9, 2005

BBC East African Border Crossings

A very interesting recount of driving from Kampala - the capital of Uganda, through Kenya and into Tanzania. We're considering a driving safari in Eastern Africa and I am always looking for specifics on driving in Africa, across borders, and through military and customs checkpoints.

We drove from the capital Kampala right up to the Kenyan border without a single police officer waving us down - and that is despite the Kenyan number plates on our car.

In Kenya, you would need a wad of notes to achieve the same feat.

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In Kenya, bureaucracy seems to grow freely on trees.

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Suddenly the rushed and business-like Kenyans are slowed down into the polite, time-consuming etiquette of the Tanzanian.

It is not enough to ask: "How are you?"

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Posted by sorsha at May 9, 2005 4:57 PM