What do you take on trips? I take money. Lots of different kinds of money, I mean. For our average trip, we use three to five kinds of currency. It's a bit tricky to keep them separate at time, and to remember how much each is worth! This picture is of what we needed for our trips to Uganda.
1. 10,000 Tanzania shillings, worth about $7.00 USD.
2. 10,000 Uganda shillings, worth about $5.00 USD.
3. 1,000 Kenya shillings, worth about $12.50 USD.
4. 10 US dollars, worth about $10.00 USD. ;-)
When crossing borders in East Africa, only US dollars, Euros, or Great Britain pounds are accepted in payment for visas. So, even though our trip definitely did not involve travel through the United States, we needed US dollars to buy our visas in Uganda, and mine in Kenya. Crazy! They say visa is everywhere you want to be, but my personal experience says otherwise - my take on that would be, "US dollars are needed everywhere you want to be."
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