At the northern end of Lake Victoria there is Jinja, which, as a smallish town, is predominantly known as the place where the White Nile flows out of Lake Victoria to make its about 6000 km journey to the Mediterranean Sea.
When I first visited this place in 2004, this place on the Nile was just more or less a somewhat dusty riverbank with a little camping ground on the side and the metamorphosis of Lake to river happened over quite some impressive rapids.
5 years later and after more dam storage of the Nile just down from Jinja, the transition is less spectacular,
but the riverbank has been vastly developed to house look outs, a restaurant and a large flight of steps leading from the car park above down to the lake shore. And of course, lots of souvenir sellers make their living these days along those stairs.
But it is still a beautiful place to visit and the significance of the place as a source of one of the great rivers on this earth is not lost.
It is also here that we Europeans or Australians for that matter, have our common perception of African landscape – being dry and savannah to desert like – challenged. Here, like in almost all parts of Uganda, the ground is very fertile and vegetation is green and lush. Something one can always only admire when driving through the country side or even around Kampala
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