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Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya

14/9/2010

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A long time my last post as again not a good enough connections to edit this site. Last week I went into Rwanda for a day trip. Rwanda is a beautiful country, rolling hills and a higher standard of living than Uganda, all in all a pleasant place. We visited the Kigali Memorial Centre which tries to explain the genocide in 1994; it revealed how appearences can be deceptive. I shall write something longer on this visit in due course, I cannot remember the last time I was so affected by a place, and it needs some thinking about.

From being in the very south of Uganda, we then drove almost the whole lenght of the country to Jinja, located where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria. I went in search of the source of the Nile, and discovered it. The Ugandans have added a grantic obolisk to the modest memorial where John Henning Speke saw the outflow, now much changed due to the building of a dam. Still a peice of geographical history.

From Jinja, we drove back into Kenya, to the Lake Nakuru National Park, where we saw lots of Rhinos, then on to Lake Naivash, where I went walking with the wildlife in the Crater Lake Game Sancuary. One excursion that bought back a lot of memories was a visit to Elsamere, the home of Joy and George Adamson of 'Born Free' fame. We were shown a video of her life, were I was surprised to discover she was actually an Austrian, when I had always thought she was British through and through. An interesting place. Sadly, on display in the garden was the Landrover in which George was murdered by Somali poachers; and of course Joy was murdered as well. Such is Africa.

In Nairobi, I said goodbye to the group and I'm now travelling alone for the rest of my trip. I've come south to Moshi in Tanzania hoping to get a glimpse of Kilimanjaro, which is persistantly covered in cloud. The town is full of young British yoofs, all on the ultimate sponsored walk, and 'doing Kili' for charity.

Tomorrow I'm off to Dar and hopefully a swim in the sea at the end of a long bus ride.
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