Trekking in Uganda: Mount Elgon – day 4 of 4; the descent ?
Today we descend from Mude Cave Camp (3,500m) to the mountain village of Bumasola (1,770m). From there, boda bodas (mopeds) will take us to the mountain village of Budadiri (1,250 m) where we check out Mount Elgon National Park.
One more time we get up early and clean up our tent camp. Maaike calls together the porters, cook and rangers of Juma Chebet’s team @elgon_trekk. She expresses our thanks and gives everyone a well-deserved tip. Then: descend! ?
It is a bright sunny morning. On the descent on Sasa-Trail we pass Sasa River Camp (2,900m) and just above Bumasola is a steep rocky cliff passage. Today it has steel stairs, but not before and then she called the passage ‘the wall of death…’
At the bottom of the rock cliff passage are thousands of arable fields. Coffee trees with red ripe fruits, banana trees and fields of Irish potatoes, maize and onions. In between, mud huts, cattle and playing children who seek contact with us. Overwhelmingly beautiful.
Sitting on the back of one of the boda boda mopeds, it feels to me as if ‘the film’ of two weeks of Uganda has started the credits. The journey with all the impressions pass by like slides as I shake back and forth driving on the gravel roads. I would love to come back here again ?
A motorcycle tour through Karamoja is a truly off-the-beaten-path adventure on an authentic way. Although riding Boda Boda through the rough terrain is not for the fainted hearted, its’ an amazing way to discover a region that’s often ignored by most travellers.
Watch the award winning documentary “Ateker” about reuniting people across borders in South Sudan, Karamoja Uganda, Turkana Kenya and Ethiopia. The documentary makers aim at fostering peace, preserving our cultural heritage and promoting cross-border tourism.
Trekking Uganda’s Mount Kadam with Kenya-based Dutch primatologist Yvonne A. de Jong and American conservationist and ecologist Thomas M. Butynski have had an interest for what lies within the forgotten corners of Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region and bordering Kenya’s Turkana and West-Pokot counties.
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Trekking in Uganda: Kadam, Moroto, Elgon
Trekking in Uganda: Mount Elgon – day 4 of 4; the descent ?
Today we descend from Mude Cave Camp (3,500m) to the mountain village of Bumasola (1,770m). From there, boda bodas (mopeds) will take us to the mountain village of Budadiri (1,250 m) where we check out Mount Elgon National Park.
One more time we get up early and clean up our tent camp. Maaike calls together the porters, cook and rangers of Juma Chebet’s team @elgon_trekk. She expresses our thanks and gives everyone a well-deserved tip. Then: descend! ?
It is a bright sunny morning. On the descent on Sasa-Trail we pass Sasa River Camp (2,900m) and just above Bumasola is a steep rocky cliff passage. Today it has steel stairs, but not before and then she called the passage ‘the wall of death…’
At the bottom of the rock cliff passage are thousands of arable fields. Coffee trees with red ripe fruits, banana trees and fields of Irish potatoes, maize and onions. In between, mud huts, cattle and playing children who seek contact with us. Overwhelmingly beautiful.
Sitting on the back of one of the boda boda mopeds, it feels to me as if ‘the film’ of two weeks of Uganda has started the credits. The journey with all the impressions pass by like slides as I shake back and forth driving on the gravel roads. I would love to come back here again ?
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