2009/02/16 where the nile is rising

jinja is a beautiful city on fruitful ground due to the nile river and lake victoria; therefore not only tea and sugar grows, but also the flowers are stunning. via boat and boda we discovered the surroundings.

jinja is a highly frequented tourist place: you can not only find a monument of mahatma ghandi, as a part of his ashes was scattered here..

..but also has river nile its source here.

like on the aequator the feeling of just being there is more spectacular than the place of interest itself.

nontheless we absolutely enjoyed discovering it:

this is the monument of john hanning speke, who discovered the source. we certainly had to have a fotosession here..

after a while we moved on to the bujagali falls, certainly by boda again. due to the sandy dust i passed my glasses on to the driver.. nice, huh?


again, the area is just wonderful, sitting by the water simply relaxes.

although one should certainly be careful to not fall into the water.. it's strong.