Slices of adventure hail from the Eastern part of Uganda.

 

We have cautiously driven ourselves to contribute to sustainable travel experiences throughout 2023. From programs in Agriculture, Life on water and travel, young people are out their straining through the hustles of traditional societal expectations to increase household incomes in rural communities.

This is not a smooth road for a young company, however narrowing down fellow like-minded groups of travelers has pushed us to continue hitting the road.

On this morning, three ambitious gentlemen set out to tell stories from their previous travel adventures. Our hosts Mulima Adventures in the North-West of Mt Elgon had already set out the entire plan of the day.

From a hike to the top of the world’s most “romantic falls”, abseiling with a team of professional guides and later immerse us into a community walk to an apiary project, set to increase farm returns for small holder farmers in Kapchorwa.

If you are familiar with ‘We find love in the strangest places”, I stumbled on a stream of milk splashing onto the rocks of the last falls of Sipi falls. I have always known the Western part of Uganda to be the land of milk and honey, but here I was watching rocks slice streams of down pours to intentionally flood dependent homesteads with milk and honey.

The hills by the river banks have become a home to bee farming whereas several village water collection sources are also filling points for cattle udders after a long day of chewing on the grass. What I grew up assuming to only be in Western Uganda, was just unfolding before my eyes, “the land of milk and honey” in Eastern Uganda, proudly initiated by native people.

We set off with a yellowish 5 liter jerrycan filled with Kwerionik, a traditional milk product fermented in smoked containers that communities used to hold as a constant supply of nutritious food during the dry season.