The Source of the Nile

For Saturday, November 21, 2009

We woke up to a beautiful morning. The hotel rooms were not more than quaint huts along a stretch of water called the Source of the Nile. We paid a small fee to travel on a man’s tin-hulled boat.

We traveled up one river’s edge and then along the other. Children were swimming and women cleaning clothes not far from our boat. The trees that cradled the river sides were alive with exotic birds and monkey’s doing what you would imagine; swinging from tree branch to tree branch putting on a hysterical show for us. This is certainly not something that you see every day at home.

The water had a strange movement to it like life deep under the earth’s surface was bubbling under it trying to escape. Drums would sound off from time to time. Not as romantic as it sounds though. At a vista overlooking the river, a group of musicians would play on cue every time a bus of tourists would stop. Well they sounded nice anyway.

Next we went to eat along the Bujagli Falls. These falls aren’t waterfalls as I expected but rapids and they are something to see and experience. This place is just you’d dream Africa would be; glorious, beautiful, untamed and vast.

We are excited about tomorrow. This is when we meet with the Gretta Scholars. Now we leave paradise and go back to Kampala.