Made a check on the bucket list this week: on Wednesday I took a cruise on the Nile River. It’s so green and beautiful, yet the environment there is being destroyed. Damming of various sections have led to flooding and the submerging of Budhagali Falls, as well as forests, and an island that used to be in the middle of the river. Rippon Falls, the source of the Nile, has been submerged since 1954 when they opened Owen Falls Dam. I didn’t see any crocodiles but I did see my first monitor lizard. Because of the dams there is only so far you can go now, so the cruise took a little less than two hours total. The riverboat was small- about half the size of the riverboat in Montgomery, and lunch was provided. We also had the entire boat to ourselves (five of us) which was a bonus.
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