Partly to test B's fix to the air system, we took a drive from Fort Portal around the northern end of the Rwenzori mountains towards the Congo border. We turned at Sampaya to head back towards Semliki Valley National Park - by this time we were fairly sure the fix was working.
To begin with we noticed a lot of cultivation, even on the very steepest slopes rising above us, but as the road dropped lower into the Rift Valley the terrrain became drier and less cultivated. From the Semliki Valley floodplains we could see across to the Blue Mountains in the Congo. We had intended to drive all the way through the National Park to Ntoroko on Lake Albert but I found the road too bumpy and uncomfortable so after a while B turned around and we headed for Bigodi. Here we arranged to do the swamp bird walk for the next morning and set about finding a campsite.
We ended up after some to-ing and fro-ing at the defunct campsite of Primate Safari Lodge in the Kabale forest. We ate at the lodge, it was tasty but disappointingly small.
To begin with we noticed a lot of cultivation, even on the very steepest slopes rising above us, but as the road dropped lower into the Rift Valley the terrrain became drier and less cultivated. From the Semliki Valley floodplains we could see across to the Blue Mountains in the Congo. We had intended to drive all the way through the National Park to Ntoroko on Lake Albert but I found the road too bumpy and uncomfortable so after a while B turned around and we headed for Bigodi. Here we arranged to do the swamp bird walk for the next morning and set about finding a campsite.
We ended up after some to-ing and fro-ing at the defunct campsite of Primate Safari Lodge in the Kabale forest. We ate at the lodge, it was tasty but disappointingly small.