Following the rapids we took off to the source of the Nile, the place where lake Victoria meets the Nile. We took a boat out onto the lake and the wild birds were to be seen to be believed. Lake Victoria is the second largest lake in the world and borders Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. The journey from the source of the Nile here in Uganda to the Mediterranean sea is 4,000 miles and takes three months. Lastly, Ghandi's ashes are scattered at the source of the Nile - who knew.
Monday, December 14, 2009
The Source of the Nile
We left the hotel by midday Sunday and headed to see the rapids at the source of the Nile. They are in a park, not a national park, but some official looking guy charged us to get in. The prices were listed as Ugandans X; non-Ugandans Y. Classic. We also passed two kids with a rope trying to stop cars to pay them to go down the road. Our driver was having none of it and they let the rope down but given that tourists do go this way one can assume they get the odd taker.
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Kids, so resourceful, setting up their own park gate. But their activity so isolated and limited in potential, compared with the richness of the micro-lending and farm coop activities you described the past couple of days.
ReplyDeleteTraveling in Morocco a few years ago, way up in the Atlas Mountains, we'd often encounter a similar scene - a couple of kids by the road, selling some little trinket or polished stone, because they needed money for school books or pencils. And they were aggressive sellers! We admired their drive, although for their sakes we wished they'd be able to spend fewer days by the side of the road and more in school.
Hopefully your two young toll collectors will find their way to apply their entrepreneurial spirit in a more promising environment.