Western Uganda

From Kampala we headed up towards the western mountains in Uganda.  We first went to the town of Fort Portal.  A nice green town in the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains.  It is also surrounded by a number of crater lakes.  We visited Lake Nkuruba after a very dusty motorcycle ride from Fort Portal.  The lake had 3 species of monkeys: black and white colobus, red colobus, and vervet monkeys.

Black and white colobus.

And his red brother.

Eva and Brian with burnt heads.

Lake Nkuruba.

Sneaky vervet monkeys trying to get pineapple from some Austrian overlanders.

The local market at Mugusu.

From Fort Portal we headed south and into the mountains to the old mining town of Kilembe.  We were at the edge of the Rwenzori National Park, the home of Africa's third largest peak and true equatorial snow, BUT we didn't go.  We are on a budget after all.  Instead we walked in the foothills with a guide from the village to see how the people of the mountains live, grow their crops, and magically never sweat.

One of these ones is not like the other...

Harvesting cassava.

The fields are a bit steep.