Ngetta hill

In Kaabong and Kalongo, I was lucky. Both places are very pretty, with lovely rocky hilly surroundings.

Lira can't really be called that. It lies in the middle of flatland, with few interesting scenery points nearby. Possibly the best it can do is the Ngetta hill, a hill-rock-blob a few kilometres out of Lira.

There have been plans of going up the Ngetta hill with several friends of the little Lira community practically since I arrived to Lira. All of them failed - I guess mainly because they involved an early morning start on a weekend. And so, gradually, reaching the top (or even the bottom) of Ngetta hill grew into almost mystical dimensions of a quest - always planned but never attained. 

Maybe it was the visit of Martina in Kalongo and the mood of conquering peaks (or at least available hills) that kicked me to actually carry out plans - whatever it was, I managed to drag myself out of bed on a Sunday early morning to join the mini-expedition to the top.

On a different note, the (currently ending) dry season is the time to make bricks, which are locally burnt all over the country. Clay soil is mixed with water and made into the shape of bricks using a wooden frame. The bricks are first left in the sun to dry out and afterwards they are piled in towers with spaces for firewood at the bottom, covered with soil and burnt. This is what brick-burning towers looks like from far.