Murchison Falls 19-21 August 2006 After a week conducting fieldwork in the West Nile I took my first bus in Uganda and treated myself to a tourist weekend at Murchison Falls- home to countless giraffes, hippopotamuses, antelopes, warthogs, elephants and some lions and leopards, which are not easy to find. My bus departed Arua Town at 6:30am and it took about six hours to travel to a bridge where I waited for a friend and driver from Kampala to meet me and pick me up. The bus ride in itself was an experience, if you’ve ever travelled via bus in a third world country the experience is similar most everywhere, just different quality buses, smells and sights. I stayed awake along the ride so I could see more of the countryside, as it was my
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