Moroto Transportation

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There is a Gateway bus that goes directly from Kampala to Moroto. It must leave I guess at around 6 in the morning because it doesn't reach Soroti till around 11:45 in the morning as that is when I fought my way on board the overcrowded bus.

As well as the bus to Moroto, at around noon in Soroti a Gateway bus on its way to Kotido via Moroto pulls into to Soroti bus park. If you are not on either of these buses another bus company 'Nalea' has a bus that is suposed to leave Soroti at 14:00 for Moroto I guess this one also originated in Kampala.

The day I took the bus it took 5 hours to reach Moroto. Some of the scenery along the way was stunning especially as the bus passed through the hills around Nariam. In this hot dry corner of Uganda the wind was whipped up and swirls of dust would sweep across the path of the bus or through the small trading centres that we stopped at on our way to Moroto. I was thankful for the large handkerchief that I’d bought especially to wrap around my nose and mouth to keep out the dust.

At these small villages crowds of local kids would be poised to grab any discarded water bottles that were flung from the window of the bus. Impatient for a bottle to be thrown the kids were singing for them to be given to them, “lete dodo, lete dodo” they sang.

Leaving Moroto the first bus leaves at 04;00 in the morning, I was told that the Nalea bus is scheduled to leave at around 06:00.

The return journey was a ot quicker, I got all the way to Mbale bang on 6 hours, and that was with 1/2 hour wait at Soroti bus park.