Day 3

Day 3

Just to have some back ground of who I am with, I am living in the quest house of Mr. Edmund Kananura, he is the senior quality controller for Uganda Coffee Development authority.  Basically he controls all of the coffee produced in Uganda.

Today was an amazing day, we took a drive to a town called Jinja, this place is incredible.  Jinja is 40 miles east of kamapala, this city of Jinja is the source of the Nile. Now when they told me we were going to see the source of the nile I didn’t understand at first what they ment, but it turns out at lake Victoria is actually the source of the Nile.  The longest and most famous river in the world is right in our back yard and more amazingly the source of this mighty river is right here in this little town called Jinja. I have taken a bunch of pictures of this place which does not look all that glamorous but think about what this place is and the magnitude of this place comes to life. I have never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be standing on the banks of the nile or be at the source of this river.  After about an hour of standing there in complete amazement, we took a 2 hour hike along the nile, through a couple of small fishing villages, walking along side this river and seeing all the little farms and the people and how simple they live is amazing to me. Somehow we ended up with two 12 year boys as our guides. They helped us navigate through the village, and pretty much explain in detail what was going on around us and what the plants and trees were. (check out the pictures of us walking In the villages) on the way back we got caught in a major rain storm which was actually pretty cool, huge rain drops cooled us off and then we started to head back.

On our way back to kampala we stopped by a rainforest and a resort which was located directly in the middle of the forest, they said there was monkeys and small animals  there but I didn’t see any. Check out some of the pictures.

When we got back food was waiting for us, we ate and then went to an open bar in down town kampala. This freaking bar was amazing, music drinks, and I thought I was back in DC for a minute. Anyways we stayed at this bar for about 3 hours, had a few drinks met some people then went home and now im about to sleep since its 430 in the morning. J

P.S

The Ugandan word for white people is MUZUNGO, I never considered my self white but here if you are not black you are white, so I am muzungo.