View down the gorge

Porters!? We don' need no Steenking Porters!

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August 21st 2007
For some reason while we were relaxing in Jinja we got chatting to Brian and decided it would be a good idea to climb mount Elgon. I don't know why, it's a bloody big mountain, the second largest caldera in the world after the Ngorogoro crater in Tanzania and rather high. In other words it's a bloody big mountain. First of all we needed to head North up the Eastern side of Uganda. This side of U ... read more

Africa » Uganda

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Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,0... ... read more