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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

UGANDA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [359] | View Larger Image

Meet Peter, our tour guide. Peter is an 11 year old boy, who spends his days taking the tourists on a hike from the top of the falls to the bottom. This is their 7 member family's only source of income. In this photo, Peter washes a cap that one of the American tourists dropped on their hike to keep for himself because he tells us that other than the clothes he has on his back, he has 2 other pairs.

This is Sipi Falls, located on the foothills of Mt. Elgon in Western Uganda. Until the recent past, it has remained a pristine, untouched, green paradise. For the last few years, it has become an increasingly popular tourist destination for the expatriate community in Uganda, giving rise to various hotels, tours and tourist activities such as abseiling. As a tourist like me sat in a double-bed room, with a hot shower and a television, it was heartbreaking to see the state of the local community who lived in a village between our hotel and the falls.

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On our drive in a 4-wheel-drive Pajero from the falls to our hotel, we are met with 4 young children of the local community walking to their village after having collected water from the falls for their domestic use.

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