Saturday at last! We stopped by the hospital to give one the patient's some medicines he needed and were off to Sipi Falls - super beautiful and awesome Sipi Falls. Oh, how we love Sipi Falls.
But first things first, we went with Jenny (another med student who lives with us) and this other kid named Johann from Switzerland, who's also volunteering with ELI but in a different house. Jenny and Johann were hilarious all weekend. They're both at least slightly crazy - Jenny in a super med-studenty way, and Johann in a super crazy European way. Inevitably, the whole weekend was a bizarre and amusing romantic tension... ah, l'amour.
We took a matatu to Mbale (perhaps a 2.5 hour ride) and then another to Sipi Falls, another hour in a matatu and perhaps half an hour in a boda boda. It was the longest boda ride we've yet taken, and it was fairly terrifying... no helmet, 15 year old driver going breakneck speeds on a crappy little motorcycle with broken mirrors. And yet, we arrived safely, and found ourselves at the Crow's Nest.
The Crow's Nest was absolutely beautiful. For only $13 per night (for both of us), Anne Marie and I got a private little cabin on a hillside that overlooked the three GORGEOUS waterfalls that comprise Sipi Falls. I've never in my life seen such awesome waterfalls, and the rest of the scenery was equally amazing.
Being a tourist destination, it was pretty full of white people - sort of weird after being used to never seeing other mzungus - but we had a great time. Saturday night we stayed up late drinking at the bar and playing card games. Sunday was the big nature hike - for pretty cheap we all got a guided tour around all three waterfalls (one 100m, one 67m, one 78m). The hike lasted about six hours, and was pretty tiring... so when we came back, we were ready to eat and drink and nap, all in the fabulously cool temperature that high elevations in mountainous Uganda provided for us. It was magnificent.
Sunday night, we walked next door to eat an incredible, four course meal at a neighboring place for 18,000 shillings each - about 7 bucks. I'm sorry if I keep talking about how cheap everything is here, but it's just so crazy to me. We slept like kings on our huge double mattress, and spent all morning on Monday, July 4th reading, enjoying the views, eating big meals, doing crosswords, and otherwise relaxing hard.
We loved Sipi Falls.
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