The Mzungu as Tourist

I knew when I went to bed last night, that an adventure awaited me. So, of course, how could I sleep. James (head of the Psychology Department) and Salli (the driver of the vehicle) picked me up at 9ish and off we went. Once out of the city and into the countryside, we passed tea farms (and factories).

And sugar cane fields and a factory.

As the highway moves toward Kenya through the country, there are fewer and fewer cars.

We passed by a Saturday market and, then,

to a few falls on the Nile. THE NILE... THE HONEST TO GOODNESS NILE.

To the source of the Nile.... at Lake Victoria which is fed by streams coming down from the mountains. The Lake drains into the Nile.

Fruit!

I bought a new hat made from tree bark.

There were some performers from a local orphanage.

We passed children getting water from a shared well.

And then we went to a rainforest. There was so much I could not take pictures of at the rainforest. The 286 species of butterflies.. The 90 species of moths. The 10 species of snakes.3 species of monkeys... we saw the redbutt kind especially playing in the trees. 1 species of LEOPARD... which we did not run into. Porcupine. And some animals I never heard of.

But here are two pictures of the trees...

There were so many beautiful trees - mohagony, rubber, some kind of incense producing tree (I rubbed the bark in my fingers to produce the beautiful scent), viagra-like medical tree - very popular I am told, and a tree whose bark tastes like hot red pepper (yes, I tasted it) which is also medicinal and is one cure for malaria. Very cool.


And, then we drove through a patch of pineapple - and from my perspective Uganda has the best pineapple in the world!

What a day! Welaba from the Touring Mzungu!


And big thanks - "webere" to James, my papparazzi!