back in jinja

we've made it back to where this african obsession of mine began... in jinja, uganda. im having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that im back here. certainly didn't think i'd get that chance again.

the past week or so in africa has been surprisingly, and unnervingly, smooth. did the safari thing in masai mara, kenya which was great. saw the wildebeest migrate across a dried up river between tanzania and kenya... it looked shockingly like that scene in the lion king where they trample mufasa. ticked a few other animals off my safari bingo card.. just need to see a leopard and then i'll be pretty satisfied.

after that, we went north a bit to a different park that housed an incredible amount of flamingos and a few white rhinos. this ended up being the very last leg for our broken down safari van.. it died literally at the exit of the park.

i dragged devyn and eric on a rather intense matatu ride after that to make it to the ugandan border. most of the time i was pretty sure that if the psychotic driver didn't kill me as he barreled down a rainy road in the wrong lane, one of the other two might.. we survived though and learned that matatus for over a few hours are not something we're going to do too frequently.

in uganda, we went up to sipi falls. eric and i belayed down the side of a 100m waterfall in the middle of a jungle which was one of the cooler things i've ever done. we also went on a "jungle walk" which was more like a mad sprint around the mountains behind a guide who was in incredible shape. we were not and were the epitome of pathetic white people.

now, in jinja, we're taking it easy... bizarre food choices and too many nile specials have caught up with us and our stomachs need a bit of down time. i may go chuck myself down the nile again tomorrow.. depending how i feel. otherwise, just hanging around visiting the orphanage and a few people i didn't think i'd get to see again.

thats about it for now... next on the agenda is a trip to kampala to reunite with some other friends and then down south to rwanda, burundi and that train across tanzania. today's project is to find a deck of cards so we don't go totally insane.