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Nile Horseback Safaris/ Ride like the wind
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 10 January 2010
One of the reasons I took riding lessons in Johannesburg was so that I could hop on a horse and ride through the countryside–a bonus would be to ride through a foreign countryside as a means of exploration. On New Years day, two of the other girls (both horse riders) and I took on a [...]
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Jinja/ Lip syncing dancers
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 8 January 2010
Our group was staying at the Adrift base camp in Jinja for our entire time there, and the accommodation was fine. Adrift offers grass space for campers (which is typically filled with the overland bus groups), dorms with bunk beds ($10/night), safari tents (large room-like tents, containing foam beds, $40/night) and small wooden chalets overlooking [...]
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Team Vengeance/ Day 2-3 rafting
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 6 January 2010
The second day of rafting would be more chilled out, we were told; there were only 6 rapids to ride in a much shorter distance than the day before. The start to the day was less chilled, however–a rooster woke us up announcing the dawn, and just wouldn’t shut up. Suitably exhausted from interrupted sleep [...]
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Base Camp Adrift, Jinja/ Day 1 rafting
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 4 January 2010
We arrived in Entebbe International Airport, Uganda, at 7:30pm, just as the sun was setting over Lake Victoria and the Ssese Islands. The eleven of us were picked up by the rafting company, Adrift, and arrived at rafting headquarters sometime after 11pm. We settled into the dorms and greeted our rafting guides, Camo and Jeffry [...]
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