Night bus to Kampala

We spent our last day in Nairobi at the national museum. There were expositions about the animals and the history of Kenya. Here we learned that the 'foxes' we saw on safari were actually jackalls. But most importantly, some of the oldest human remains were found in Kenya and exposed at the museum (although our guide told us she beliefs only 50% in evolution).
Next to the museum was a snake park, where you can see all the snakes of Kenya in real life. Most poisonous snakes live near the coastal areas, which we won’t visit, but one (the Johnson mamba) also lives in western Uganda, which is where we're planning to go. Hooray for us. Luckely it’s less poisonous than the black mamba and you have 48 hours to get help after a bite (compared to a black mamba that can kill you in 30min).
Nairobi is teaming with wildlife. During lunchtime in the museum a black kyte had a rest on a wire close to our table and in the park you could see kingfishers and marabou stork. Black kytes were hunting the kingfishers while they were fishing. Now that we’re sure we've seen the marabou stork, we can proudly say that we have seen all of the ugly 5 (marabou, wildebeest, hyena, vulture and warthog), though only 3 of the big 5 (lion, elephant and buffalo, we haven’t seen any leopard or rhino).
Our hotel and the bus stop for Kampala were both in downtown Nairobi and it was clear we were the only tourists (or white people in general) to venture in there. Most tourists come for the animals and stay with a tour company. We found it to be a lively place, with lots of people selling their wares on the streets or in small, highly specialized shops. Between all that, a lot of colorfully painted matatus are driving around (there’s a matatu for everybody who is somebody, from 2pac to the pope to Mayweather). Unfortunately we didn’t take pictures, because downtown Nairobi is not a place to stand still and take your camera out. We also took the warning to heart not to walk outside after dark. Someone tried to open the front pocket of Steefka’s backpack, but the only thing in there was gum and some other useful, but worthless things like pens, band-aids and tampons.
The bus ride was long, but not too uncomfortable. Though we can’t really say we slept, we haven’t been awake the whole ride either. The bus had a 3-4 hour delay, which meant we could see a lot of Uganda by daytime. We drove by all the places we visited last time, so it was nice to refresh some memories.
Uganda is a lot greener than Kenya, with jungle and plantations of bananas, sugar cane and tea all growing on the super fertile red clay. This red clay is also used to make bricks, which makes for a lot more brick houses in Uganda compared to Kenya, where there are still quite some houses made out of corrugated iron. The streets are also wider where we are staying in Kampala compared to Nairobi, which makes it easier to breathe with all the traffic. Another nice thing is that there seems to be more sun (Sam actually caught a cold in Kenya because of the slightly cold and cloudy weather). This afternoon we relaxed at the hotel and went out to get some tourist info to plan the rest of our trip. After that we walked back and had Ugandan street food for dinner, with an amazing view over the city.