So, it was very easy to reach Lake Nkubura, as I needed only 30
minutes more with a motorcycle taxi. It is not really easy to sit with
full luggage (big tour backpack and small day backpack) on the back of a
motorcycle…. It is not comfortable, in any case.At Lake NkurubaI did a tour to some of the crater lakes in the area. It is a beautiful landscape of bananas and tea plantations with the crater lakes in between. The lakes are more than 60 meters deep, and they are considered to be free of bilharzias (this is these small worms that bore by the skin and attack the internal organs). But, as said, that disease is not common here. Apart from that, it was too cold to take a swim here, as the lakes are at nearly 1800-metre altitude!
The next highlight of Uganda was half an hour of motorcycle taxi, 5
hours of minibus and then on the next day over again 3 hours of minibus
and 45 minutes of motorcycle taxi journey away – Lake Bunyoni. This lake
lies away at 2000 meters altitude and is only few kilometers from the
border with Rwanda. The lake is wonderful and surrounded by terraced
mountains. One knows such terrace fields rather from Nepal than from
Africa…
In this area there are due to HIV a lot of orphan´s children.
Immediately behind my hotel there was one of the orphanages. Here live
59 children in some small houses, who are looked after by several
adults. Well, accommodation is very tight, as there is not enough room
to accommodate these children in a proper way, e.g. the 5 smallest
children divide a bed. They sleep crosswise, and then five of them fit.
Others sleep on the ground. The shell of an additional building stands,
however, is still far away from his completion, particularly as
currently there is no money to continue.
The children are enthusiastically, when there is a visitor, and then
they sing and dance. Two boys from the orphanage took me against a small donation for the orphanage on a boat tour to some of the islands. This was a good opportunity to get into conversation with the both. Their parents have passed away due to HIV, leaving behind a total of nine brothers and sisters, everybody in the orphanage. Both latest brother and sister have by the birth also HIV. There a reasonable answer is already difficult for one….
Then one of the older brothers has brought me by the motorcycle to the border. Thanks a lot to Gordon; this saved me definitely a lot of waiting. I hope to find a solution to some of the problems they have there in the orphanage.
