Beautiful People,
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My name is Timothy Ahumuza and I hail from Uganda, a place where most of you believe Wakanda is located around the Eastern side of Africa. I became serious about being a local guide last year when my job started requiring me to move around the East African region.
As I moved around, I always found it hard to find accommodation and when I got to these places, I also found it hard to find a good and affordable meal. In most instances, I found myself having snacks since I wasn’t ready to experience food poisoning again.
It was only until last year when I was in Kenya and I was checking my maps that I got to see that there were recommendations for me to try out different places for accommodation, food, bars, recreation etc. For anyone who has traveled, we know how important this can be especially when in a new place. After looking through the options, I was also prompted to become a local guide. For me all this came as a surprise and was mind boggling for a moment because I knew that I would help out a lot of people out there that were in my kind of state.
My favorite thing to do on maps has been to write reviews of places that I have visited, take and share pictures and as well as answer questions about places. One other thing I like doing when I visit a place is to confirm whether the details displayed on maps is true. Most people get surprised when I ask them whether the number displayed belongs to their premises.
I have also grown into a habit of writing a detailed review for every place. This I do by putting myself in the other person’s shoes and I ask myself “What would I want to know if I was on the other side of this story and I was thinking of trying out this place?”
And of course I love taking pictures of places.
I want to share as much information about places as I possibly can. i have been helped by the reviews made by other people. Now its my turn to do the same. I hope by being a Local Guide, I will encourage someone else to join the the Local Guides Community.