Uganda April 2007
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Took a week off over easter to go to Uganda, where I met up with Jacobien and we did a hike up Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano on the Kenyan / Ugandan border. Uganda seemed like a good place to meet as Jacobien was working in DRC and we met in Entebbe.
 Mount Elgon Volcano from space (thanks google) |
 And in relation to Lake Victoria and Kisumu (light blue bay) |
 foothills |
 Guides Alex and George with Jaco |
 Me and George on the way up |
 Me above the treeline |
 Me determined not to spend another night freezing |
 Me in freezing waterfall shower, cave entrance |
 Jaco testing the shower... |
 framed by nature.. |
 a spacious matatu |
 Tudum Cave, where we slept. |
 Us at the summit |
 the gang up top |
 bridge at Sipi falls |
 Camping at 3,500m |
 Tudum Cave as we cam accross it |
 clouds from the top |
 jaco crosses a bridge |
 dinner cooked in the cave |
 View from the start of the walk |
 more foothills... |
 jaco in the restaurant |
 cool stream to wash in |
 more garden-like forest |
 Mzungus - good excuse to run out of class |
 A Thoroughly Modern Bar |
 and a modern restaurant |
 Civilisation - Mnt Elgon hotel |
 Crossing the crater rim |
 My favorite bush dunny. mostly bush. not much dunny. |
 Don't lean back - they're nettles. |
 Some would be models |
 the restaurant at the end of the universe ? |
 Falls at end of hike... |
 Sky and trees |
 One of the smokey huts where we cooked (smoked) our food. |
 guides and porters on the road |
 mountain in the distance.... 3221 m above us ! |
 clouds from top |
 proof ! |
 Trees |
 looks like australia ! |
 view over the plains |
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