THE Nile Source

The boat we rode in to see the Source!

The beginning of the Nile!

African Camping :)

Photo at the beginning of the Nile!!!

Best place to stay in Jinja!

Shops along the water.

Our view from our room at Surjio's!

On our way to see the Source!!

Enjoying the Amazing pool!

Waiting for the Smile van during our taxi mishap.

Well since we stuck around Tororo for Christmas we all decided we would go on 'holiday' to Jinja for New Year's! We booked ourselves a stay at Surjio's! It was fantastic. Surjio's is a lovely, quaint place. It was nice and quiet, had a lovely pool, stone oven to make PIZZA, and the staff was SO wonderful!
We spent the weekend doing a bit of shopping in town, and visited the orphanage Surjio's wife runs down the road. It was so lovely, very organized, and gave us some ideas to implement to Smile, hopefully.

Surjio (the owner) was so nice and chatted with us. He suggested we go down to the water and get a boat ride to the Nile Source. So we did. It took us longer to bargain the price of our ride than to actually get to the source and back, but it was worth it. We rode over to this little island where there was the posting of the Source of the Nile. Our boat driver explained to us why they chose this spot of Lake Victoria the Source of the Nile.

We spent New Year's Eve chatting with a lady named JoAnna from England who was spending her holiday season volunteering at an orphanage outside of Jinja for 4 weeks. She was so pleasant and we had a great evening with her! We counted down and celebrated with some other UKer's that were staying at Surjio's. There were even fireworks in town that we got to see a bit of through the trees at the end of Surjio's driveway!

We headed back to Tororo on New Year's Day and had a little miscommunication with the taxi man and ended up having to get out and wait for another taxi to come pick us up a little ways out of Tororo! Thankfully the Smile van was able to come and get us! God is definitely watching over us here. It all turned out just fine.

We had a great weekend of relaxation, GREAT 'Western' food, and a great time meeting new people!