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 ?
We have come from far… tourism is positively changing the image of Karamoja and we hope that this collaboration with Uganda Tourism Board, NBS Television, NTV, UBC, can inspire tourism professionals and local communities to embrace Community Tourism in Karamoja as opportunity for inclusive development.
Voluntary work in Karamoja Uganda – I checked a long existing bucket list item…. a trip to Uganda. What an experience this was! This truly is ‘the pearl of Africa’…
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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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