Uganda: 20 days discovering authenticity (page 7 of 9)

So at Sipi Falls you did the hike to the 3 waterfalls 😛

In Jinja, we had a nice lodge, The Haven—did you find a great place too?

I hope you enjoyed these photos... and that they’ll inspire you to visit this stunning and captivating country.

yesss 🙂 or go back 😉

Part of the country to explore on your next trip ;) !?

Definitely makes your travel journal look tempting! Muriel

Thanks Delphine for sharing—gorgeous travel journal and country! It’s definitely on my list :)

We would’ve loved to stay an extra day, just doing nothing...

It’s true your pace was pretty full-on… but it let you see the heart of the country in one go.

Anyway, thanks for this great travel journal—it brought back some great memories and made me want to go back! A little loop (either way) MFNP-Kidepo-Karamoja-Sipi Falls and Jinja in February 2021 sounds tempting to me 😛. Muriel

Really beautiful trip indeed.

Exactly! In the end, with the waterfall below our lodge, we saw 4 😉!

We stayed at Jinja Base Camp—it was fine, but nothing amazing 😛. Maybe because the end of the trip was approaching, we were in a different mindset. Doing this stop at the very beginning wouldn’t have been the same. At that point, we were coming back from a region that was barely touristy, so seeing all those people felt strange.

Thanks for your messages 🙂.

Thanks 🙂. 200% recommended 😉 !

Looks like a lovely trip coming up for 2021 😉. And was Oman in February 2020 a good choice?

Oh yes indeed! 🙂🙂🙂 By the way, my profile picture reminds me of something 😉 !

And is Oman a good choice for February 2020?

Yes, yes. Just a few weeks left...😎 Muriel

Some truly wonderful discoveries ahead, and what’s more, it’s almost here! 😎 !

Thanks Delphine for this beautiful travel journal 🙂. Now that it’s finished, I’ll be able to read it carefully for a possible next trip 😉

Another one on the list 😅

Hey Regis 🙂,

It's this list that just won't shrink 😉

Hey JF,

And my daughter adding destinations I didn’t want to go to 🤪

Hey JF,

And my daughter adding destinations I didn’t even want to go to 🤪

Ugh, and those people who tempt us with places we’d never even thought of 🏴‍☠️ 😏

Yeah, but I didn’t think that meant I didn’t want to 😛

Yeah, but not thinking that means not wanting to 😛

Exactly... that's why I'm going to reread this travel journal carefully—it really makes you want to go 😮 😉

Kidepo is still tricky to include in a full Uganda tour because the rainy season doesn’t align with the rest of the country.

To be honest—and flipping the perspective—I’d say a full Uganda tour is tough because you’ve got to time it around a visit to Kidepo and, beyond that, Karamoja. The whole area easily deserves two weeks, not to circle it entirely but just to get a solid feel for it. It’s like the Maasai land without the cultural bomas and the damage from mass ethnic/exotic tourism...

Between the Ik, Tepeth, and Karamojong peoples of the plains, there’s so much to explore beyond the park and the main tracks. You’d better hurry, though—with pacification, the area’s likely to jump on the tourism and exoticism bandwagon soon.

hi I’ve been to Uganda three times in the 90s. Kidepo wasn’t accessible by road due to insecurity, so I unfortunately never made it there back then. Apart from Bwindi and Mweya, there were hardly any tourists—or very few. When I see all the lodges everywhere now, I understand your thoughts on the northeast and what’s to come.

When we went to Murchison, we took the wrong road and ended up arriving from the north, escorted by the army with rocket launchers.

A little anecdote: when I was 7, at the Apollo Hotel, I rode the elevator with Thierry La Fronde. I don’t think he remembers it!