I sip water, eat a few crackers, doze a bit, wake up and do both again, several times before I get in the door. I then set up a table next to my bed with a pitcher of iced water, a glass with a flex straw and a bowl full of Club Crackers. I doze in bed but tend to wake up off and on, never getting into a deep sleep.
Entebbe. Often used as a retreat from busy Kampala, colonial Entebbe lies on the peaceful shores of Lake Victoria. Home of the only international airport in Uganda, it provides an attractive welcome to new visitors and a good way to âacclimatiseâ to Africa. The word âEntebbeâ means âseatâ in the local Luganda language, thought to be as this is where the Baganda Chief sat to adjudicate legal cases.
The roots of the frankincense trees brought back from Punt by Hatshepsutâs expedition in 1493 BCE can still be seen outside of her complex at Deir al-Bahri.Reliefs on the walls of her temple there show the chief of the Puntites and his wife receiving the envoys from Egypt.t would seem, however, from the reliefs telling of the expedition carved on Hatshepsutâs temple at Deir al-Bahri, that Punt was likely located on the shores of the Red Sea. The Egyptians traveled there by boat down the Nile, through the Wadi Tumilat in the eastern Delta and on to the Red Sea.