Here are some pictures of the second half of our vacation. Once we had had enough sun (... this is a bit of a lie, because we really weren't finished with the beaches and ocean of Zanzibar, but hey, we had a flight booked) we flew back into Uganda and immediately drove out to Jinja, then off to Mbale where Mount Elgon is located.
Check the photos below. We did the climb in 3 days instead of our planned 5, but still had a great time. We started climbing from Budadiri trading centre at 1,770 metres, hiked to 3,500 to camp the night which took about 8 hours. Camping was unbelievably cold... Jamie and I haven't felt temperatures below 10 degrees the entire time we've been here, and it got down to around 0 that night, with us in rented sleeping bags. Brr. Second day, from camp we hiked to the peak at 4,321m which took about 3 hours, then descended back to the first camp on the mountain at 2,900m to camp and warm ourselves up by the fire, and of course celebrate new years eve (by falling asleep at 9pm). As soon as we hit the peak the clouds rolled in and it started to rain, which made it quite enjoyable as our path down the mountain turned to form a small river that we tiptoed around all the way down. The last day we woke up early and were down to the bottom by 10am, drove back to Jinja, and enjoyed a shower and some good eating on the shore of the River Nile.
Here's a few pictures.
-Sean
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