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Sometimes visiting a country that has a particularly turbulent past is not something that we would put onto our top ten highlights of our trip. From top to bottom this continent is filled with a turbulent past and history we can so easily wander over without realizing it. Of course we want those lovely holiday snap shots that make people go ‘Wow!’, but a country is more than animals munching foliage in the foreground. It’s made up of blood, love, sweat and tears, and to ignore that or gloss over it is to forget all the reasons why you are able to stand on the soil you are. It’s not a bad thing to confront the past. All the guides address the topic, “Welcome to the palace, here’s fields and cows, schools and plantations around the palace and houses … oh now to the torture chambers. “ You do a mental double take. “Um … you just said torture chambers right?” “Yes, ha ha, just around the corner” “Oh, ok no fine. Let’s go there then.” It is our job to touch the other side of history when we travel- to do more than tick off some random list of must-sees and unmissables. A country is more than that, and when we get sneak peeks, like in the case of Amin’s human tombs, we can apply that knowledge and understanding for the better.


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