Golden Ark Hotel Soroti
Plot 74, Gweri Road Soroti, Uganda
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My Maiden Voyage!
... village. They all clamboured around the plane while we were getting sorted. After about 20minutes - we started up the engine and took off! It was all really surreal - both for the villagers - and for myself!
The flight was cool. We flew over Lake Victoria and took a different route back over Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha - ...
Incredible People...Incredible Country
... standing, holding on to a roll bar on a road that would challenge the shocks of any ATV. It was dirt, and had large rocks, huge trenches, and was at times mearly a foot path. It was incredible to have the wind in our faces racing accross the bush. We dropped the first two chldren off and then stayed with the last family. To put their home into perspective their were three mud-thatched huts with a baren wasteland srrounding it. Each hut was maybe 8 feet tall and a diameter of ...
Soroti...home for 20 days
... well rested, and people are visibly excited to be here. 25 hours in the air is a looong time. It is good to be grounded. We have been through Jinja and Mbale on our way to Soroti. They are both places we will visit again. Jinja is the source of the Nile, and it was a powerful site (white water rafting on the 27th...stay tuned) Mbale is home to Mt. Elgon, a dormant volcanoe that ...
Water Water everywhere
... turn to cook so we settle on a vegetarian sweet and sour and try and get what ingredients we can in the market at Jinja. A few of the group hike the waterfall at Jinja but with the leg still dodgy I opt for an afetrnoon kip and then getting a start made on the dinner. The evening ends with the camp shutting the bar at ten, leaving eight of us looked in and having to scale the roof to ...
Murchison Falls
... and saying good-bye....I don't think it has really hit us yet that we will be returning back to the US soon. On Thursday morning, we started our adventure to Murchinson Falls. Since Ugandans don't travel to Murchinson, there is no direct public transportation available to the area and most tourists head up there in travel groups. As all the tour operators turned out to be extremely overpriced, we decided to pack up all ...
