Surviving the Nile
Linda and i survived the class V’s of the Nile River. fyi, rafting here is pretty different than there, apparently the goal is not to do the rapid clean but to flip the boat and see what happenes. Kind of crazy hitting a huge wave, getting thrown several meters and either getting lost in the water or having a death grip on the raft rope and holding your breath until the long class V rapid is done with and see where you pop out. Crazy stuff! People flying all over the place… no pictures obviously, but we did buy the video which was made.
We almost gave up on going actually. We were to meet the minibus at a hotel a block away at 7:15am, we were there at 7:10, waited until 8a, called and was told in 10-15 min he would be here, at 9am we decided to leave 
no rafting for us. then a minibus with four locals pulls up and tells us to get in to go to Jinja…hmmm you can imagine our hesitation, so we used their cell phone to call the company and verify. All was ok, except for the late part. It was an exception to the company that otherwise has a very good thing going and even gave us a sweet discount off the rafting because of the delay. They cut of the first rapid to save some time, but we didn’t miss anything other than another swim.
Felix, had I known you have never seen a banana tree I would have taken a nice picture, but I think we are done with banana places now I may have a general scenery pic that has some though. We did camp one night on the boarder of Uganda and Congo, which is a small river with noisy hippos.
Eleven more days, but it should be all easy from here…nice lodges and hopefully a much better guide!
-t
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there was only one toddler in this group but he was very playful and silly! a few times we had to back away because he was trying to come to us, we were very close! maybe 1.5 meters away…even from the silverback. and since the landscape is different the views were amazing and we both got some great photos (and I got some video). Once again after an hour we had to leave them in peace.
