On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:43:43 +0100, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
to go from Nairobi to Mwanza, then cross the lake into Uganda,
seems like an intentional detour. :-)

I mean, once you're in Nairobi there's absolutely no need to go
to the other side of the Lake, then cross it back again.

One would not purposely go from Nairobi to Mwanza and then cross into
Uganda.

If you are starting in Nairobi and want to end up in Zanzibar with
minimal back tracking the routing might look like this:

Nairobi - Kampala (by road)
Kampala - Bwindi
See gorillas
Bwindi - Kampala
Kampala - Mwanza (Cross Lake Victoria)
Mwanza - Arusha
Safari
Arusha - Dar Es Salaam
Dar Es Salaam - Zanzibar

If the roads were good and ferry were still running, going through
Mwanza would be both more direct and more fun than passing through Nairobi
a second time. It also saves on visas if you end up going all the way
to Rwanda rather than seeing the gorillas in Bwindi.

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