If you're expecting news, now you'll be disappointed. I've taken so long without writing, and so much has happened in the last months that I don't feel up to plunging into a comprehensive and lengthy update. So instead I'll go for posting about something really old. A 6-month delay seems just the perfect timing.
Above Kalongo, there is a big rock. When you see it, you simply must wonder about if you can go up, and what would be the view - at least most of the muzungus do, and so did I.
As it turned out, no climbing was necessary - you can quite comfortably walk up. Asking any of the locals how long it takes to the top, invariably you get the same answer from everyone - 45 minutes. Which very clearly shows that none of them has actually gone up. Unless they all ran. Which, given the fact that even with my short legs I'm one of the fastest-walking creatures around Kalongo (one of my staff told me once he "feared my speed" while walking) seems to me rather unlikely.
I made the trip in my first month in Kalongo, as part of a Japanese-American-Ugandan-Czech morning "expedition".
There isn't much more to say. But the view is amazing, so I just leave you a few pictures of what this part of the country and Kalongo from above look like.
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| Setting off at dawn. Advisable to at least partly avoid being scorched by the dry-season equatorial sun |
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| On the top |
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| A well-deserved rest on the top, and picnic breakfast afterwards |
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| Kalongo town |
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| Kalongo from above - town on the right, hospital and mission on the left |
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