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Ugandan countryside

This is what the countryside looked like outside my bus driving south to Murchison. If you look closely you can see large seed pods hanging down from the tree.
Murchison Falls National Park

August 21st 2006
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 trav ... read more
Africa » Uganda

Ugandan Flag 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
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