Tuesday, 17 July 2018

Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya.

Over the Uganda border is Rwanda and more beautiful scenery, deep valleys and towering mountains.
 First stop was the Kigali Genocide Memorial to remember the hundreds of thousands wh were massacred in just three months. A very moving experience.
 The eternal flame.
We didn't stay long on Rwanda before crossing back to Uganda and we stopped for a few days at Jija where the Nile leaves Lake Victoria. A view from the campsite over the Nile.

 I took a water taxi to get to the other side where there are some stables. A view from the river of one of the many hotels overlooking the Nile.
 Me on a horse.
 Some of the scenery that we rode through.
Another one of me with the Nile in the background.
We crossed back into Kenya and had a safari in Lake Nakuru National Park. We had only just driven in and we found a rhinoceros but it photo shy and kept walking away from us, hence the odd angle.
 In 2025 there had been some tectonic activity and the level of the lake rose and flooded the shoreline by more than an extra two metres.
 Hence some of the buildings have been abandoned.
 But it doesn't bother much of the wildlife.
 Another flooded building.
 A crane.
 A pelican.
 A baboon. We stopped the car and they just played around us for half an hour before we moved off again.
 A hippo out of the water. They suffer from sunburn hence they spend a lot of time in the water during the day so it is unusual to see them grazing during the day. This particular day was overcast so less sunburn potential.
 A malibu stork.
 Pelicans.
 Flamingoes.
 Warthogs.
 Eland.
 Giraffe.
 Cape buffalo.
 Mahalia Falls inside the park.
 After Naguru, we reached lookout over the rift valley with the valley behind me.


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