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ntil pictures started sauntering in, instantly sending a wave of e hilaration across the country, rapper, Kanye est s visit was but a rumour. ot even a video of the rapper naming ganda among the countries he would be visiting was believable. ot in the wake of fake news, no ir. ut alas e came. e saw. e e plored and it was surreal. illiam lwoch alobo, proprietor of eritage oliday afaris provided the ground transport, and he was Kanye s tour guide for the day. e gladly re traced Kanye s ourney through the wild, step by step.
The beginning
At 11am, on aturday, 1 th ctober, the guards at akuba Airport in the heart of ganda s urchison alls a tional ark, would receive news of the arrival of eminent guests. 0 minutes later, four planes would touch ground, one of which was a presidential et. Kanye est, his socialite and reality star of a wife, Kim Kardashian and their daughter orth est, emerged out of the presidential et. ith them came a 50 man entourage and a vitality that could only be e pressed in the gan dan wild. o this day, if you ask, alobo will main tain that Kanye was definitely seeking inspiration. e didn t even have any
sort of plan, he ust wanted to connect with nature, alobo begins uite empathically. ut the lions, the buffalos, the cats really, these were definitely a must see. hat would define the game drive, or as they call it in the wild the trucking route. alobo would take the esus alks rapper through ueen trucking route, a path bursting with variety. o see the lion, had to take the route which has mating kobs, he e plains. Chances that you will see a lion here are very high. hese grounds, also known as koblets, often attract many kobs, a specie known to be easy to be prey for the lion.
ut before the kobs, Kanye and team would spot the ackson Arch beast, which the Acholi people the tribe that hosts the park , call Apura. t was the very first animal they would see, as a matter of fact, and uickly, the shy animal would run off into the wild, as if to alert the others. omething wasn t uite right, not for the controversial rapper, at least. e needed ust the right music to set the gear in motion. n the middle of his game drive, he re uested that stop and that a member of his entou rage oin him, alobo narrates. e wanted his ob arley music he specifically want ed to draw inspiration from the song, uffalo
