Uganda, Wednesday 18 October 2006 - We found the source of the Nile ... or did we not?

I know this will not be received easily in Ngozi, Burundi. I am sorry about this Sylvain, but the signposts here are telling us that this is the place, the source of the Nile. Personally I think Burundi is the place, just too bad we didn't have time to visit the origin of the Nile when we were so close.

The Nile is the longest river in the world and before it becomes the Nile it is divided into the Blue and the White Nile. The stretch from Lake Victoria to Egypt is 5850 kilometre and takes the water three months before it ends up in the Mediterranean sea. Quite a boat ride through three different countries.

We are now situated by the city/village Jinja which is the place the Victoria Nile flows out of Lake Victoria on its way north-west to Lake Albert. The White Nile meet up with the much bigger Blue Nile in the capitol of Khartoum (Sudan). The Blue Nile brings twice as much water into the Nile as the White Nile and originates somewhere in Ethiopia (have to go there too).