Day 216

Sleeping location: Katente Country Resort, near Kyegegwa, Uganda
Distance (km today/total): 126 / 13865
Estimated climb (m today/total): 1400 / 105500 
Hills: I can’t even
Day in three words: Soft legs suffer

We set off, after some tweaks to our bike setups, into the same landscape of rolling hills. It was all very green with lots of trees and occasional farmland, and pretty in a low key way but without much exciting to write about. The hills were rolling but endless, and over the course of the day the incessant climbing started to really hurt. Our legs, particularly mine, have apparently softened up during the time off. Rebecca was having other problems as her bike tweaks had actually made things worse. Various things of note:

-A public toilet with different prices for “short” (200) and “long” (300). Long seems like much better value if you ask me
-Saw a few red billed hornbills, ie Zazu from the Lion King, in a tree, scheming no doubt
-A man holding a sheep’s hand whilst he talked with his friends, like it was a small child
-A tiny naked child attempting to use a full sized hoe 

Towards the end of the day the hills got more hilly, but it also got more rugged and beautiful. By the time I arrived at a hotel we’d earmarked, which was of course at the top of a big hill, I was very tired. The elevation profile for the day looked like a seismograph reading and showed that we’d climbed more than on some proper mountain days. Rebecca arrived a little later in some considerable pain, especially in her ankles and legs. The hotel allowed camping for 1/6th the price of a room, but we were so much in need of a soft bed that we took the room. We ate chicken and chips in the bar (all they had) and went to bed early again. 

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