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
