Trekking in Uganda: Mount Elgon – day 3 of 4 > Summit Day ?
Today I get to lead the tour of tours of this two-week trek around and on extinct volcanoes in Uganda. It will be a teamwork with National Park ranger Maddy.
Half past six breakfast and around half past seven, after the yoga sun salutation, we start the nine hundred meters of altitude to Wagagai, with 4,321 meters the highest of five peaks that volcano Mount Elgon has around an enormous wide crater.
We take a break at Jackson Pool. Then follows the climb to the caldera crater rim. We follow the crater rim for a while until just before the final climb. Maddy and I find a place out of the wind behind a rock wall where we have a tea party ?
The climb to the top is beautiful. One is chatting, the other is in thought. At the top we are euphoric: we sing Wa-ga-gai, hug each other and take pictures and peer through my binoculars.
Back at Jackson Pool a hot lunch is waiting for us. Blessed! The weather changed. Back towards our tent camp we hear thunder and a shower of rain falls. It completes the whole picture. What a nice and beautiful day. Thank you Maaike, Peggy, Nelleke, Anja, Maddy, Joël and Daniel! ?
Dutch cycling couple Paul Zuidgeest and Kathleen Verhelst are cycling through Africa and passed through Karamoja land with Kara-Tunga that took them to Kidepo Valley National Park.
Are you an enthusiastic tour company and eager to learn about Uganda’s northeastern Karamoja? Are your clients interested in adventure and community tourism? Don’t hesitate and sign-up for Uganda’s first Warrior Nomad Trail familiarisation trip.
Climbing the Mysterious Granite Rock Ruoth in Abim District of Northeastern Uganda (February 2013) – Beyond Abim we soon found ourselves staring at the incredible piece of rock we had come to climb, an immense granite dome called Ruoth (The Chief). The main face was 500m of smooth, black, undulating granite, not devoid of weaknesses …
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Trekking in Uganda: Kadam, Moroto, Elgon
Trekking in Uganda: Mount Elgon – day 3 of 4 > Summit Day ?
Today I get to lead the tour of tours of this two-week trek around and on extinct volcanoes in Uganda. It will be a teamwork with National Park ranger Maddy.
Half past six breakfast and around half past seven, after the yoga sun salutation, we start the nine hundred meters of altitude to Wagagai, with 4,321 meters the highest of five peaks that volcano Mount Elgon has around an enormous wide crater.
We take a break at Jackson Pool. Then follows the climb to the caldera crater rim. We follow the crater rim for a while until just before the final climb. Maddy and I find a place out of the wind behind a rock wall where we have a tea party ?
The climb to the top is beautiful. One is chatting, the other is in thought. At the top we are euphoric: we sing Wa-ga-gai, hug each other and take pictures and peer through my binoculars.
Back at Jackson Pool a hot lunch is waiting for us. Blessed! The weather changed. Back towards our tent camp we hear thunder and a shower of rain falls. It completes the whole picture. What a nice and beautiful day. Thank you Maaike, Peggy, Nelleke, Anja, Maddy, Joël and Daniel! ?
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