Kenya Uganda April 2007

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Another work trip to work for a job in Kisumu on Lake Victoria. 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. Below the Uganda shots are some shots from the project in Kisumu, Kenya.


  • 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

  • More modelling work

  • 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

  • ViewOnwayUp.JPG
  • ViewFromTopElgon.JPG



Shots from working in Kisumu..

  • Landing in Kisumu, over Lake Victoria

  • Guillaume at our "office" - top floor bar of the Imperial Hotel

  • Boda-Boda - the only way to get around Kisumu

  • Lake Victoria from the hotel

  • One of the water supply projects

  • again...

  • Mike Woolgar; Water and Environment Director on a tight budget project

  • The first private water supply company I've seen in Africa

  • flocculation..

  • abstraction..

  • our favorite restaurant - Tilapia Beach

  • the view..

  • the food..

  • the rains finally come

  • view from the hotel

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