A quick lunch and brush up was followed by a short bus ride to the source of the River Nile. It is incredible to think that intrepid explorers of the past like John Speke and David Livingstone travelled for months and years to find the Zambesi, the Nile and Lake Victoria and yet here we are, 'Team Uganda', dropping out of the sky, less than 24 hrs after leaving LP, standing on the shores of the lake where the Nile begins its long journey to the Mediterranean!
How far is that? asked one curious student, to be answered by a local who was unsure of the distance in miles, but was confident enough to say that if you dropped a tennis ball in the river where we were it would arrive in the Med three and a half months later! We are a tired but upbeat bunch this evening. Dinner will be early tonight and that will quickly followed by sleep! Tomorrow morning we will be off early to Jinja market to buy food that we will be preparing and sharing with the youngsters at Son Rise orphanage.
Photos below from the source of the Nile.
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