Today was the adrenalin day for the younger people of the group. There was white water rafting (up to Grade 5), bungy jumping, a river cruise on the Nile and/or one could join a community aid project and paint a school. This sounded OK until the thought of getting paint all over our clothes was taken into account. The Nile and Jinja hold a significant place in the geography of the region as it is said that the Nile starts where it flows out of Lake Victoria.
Brad about to jump P1250899 DY of jtdytravels
I may have been enticed into doing something silly but bungy jumping for the ‘token grandfather’ of the group was not on. I rather like my ball and socket joints the way they are. The other thing that irked me was that the camp site only took Visa card. This is the first place I can remember where, if credit cards are accepted, that both Visa and MasterCard are accepted. Add to this anomaly, the blighters added a 5% surcharge on the use of the Visa card. I’ve had to stomach up to a 3% surcharge on credit card usage, and maybe 5% on Diners or American Express, but not 5% on the two most common cards. My protest was not silent as I told Ruth, the camp manager, that it was just another way to add an extra cost to the activity. A captive audience, a captive market! I just spent a quiet day in camp doing some washing and catching up on some writing.
There were some long-tailed macaques roaming around the camp taking every opportunity to grab any discarded food.
A long-tailed Macaque P1250952 DY of jtdytravels
One poor individual had a piece of twine tied tightly around one wrist which rendered it useless. I don’t know if it got tangled up in the twine or if someone had tied it on to tether the animal. The way the animal wasn’t able to put the hand down indicated that the circulation to the area had been cut off. I can only assume that the hand will eventually drop off!
This individual had twine tied tightly around a wrist P1250948 DY of jtdytravels
There was free WiFi in the bar area so I took full advantage of this and talked to my sister Helen in Melbourne, son Peter in Newcastle and Jennie in Bangkok when she happened to log on while I was writing.
The Olympics start in London tonight – and although we had a ‘sporty’ day …a world away from here!