AboutVicky Stirling Expertise If you have any travel related questions on Uganda I have lived in the country and am now an independent travel advisor for East and Southern Africa. Uganda is one of the friendliest and most beautiful countries in East Africa.
Experience I have worked in a tourist lodge near to Fort Portal and have travelled extensively throughout the country visiting the majority of National Parks and Game Reserves.
Question I have a friend who has been having a relationship with a guy from Uganda online and on the telephone for about a year and a half. He wants her to come to Uganda to meet he and his family and he also has been proposing to her several times. He is going to pay for a plane ticket for to go there in April. My concern is the fact that she does not know this person and he is a complete stranger to her and I also have a gut feeling that she will not return back to the U.S. because I feel he will prevent her from returning and he may try to harm her. I have tried to tell her not to go there by herself, but she is adamant about going there. Should I have any concerns regarding this situation and continue to attempt to change her mind.
Answer Terry
there are good and bad people all over the world but if they have been in contact for so long she must have some idea of what he is like. Uganda is an amazing country and the Ugandans are on the whole lovely people. He must be from a good family to be able to afford to pay for her ticket. There is no way he can prevent her returning to the US and even if the relationship does not develop she will have had an amazing chance to meet and live with a family from another part of the world.
You could suggest that he comes to the US to meet her family, then it may put your mind at rest if you meet him.
