More Info on What We'll be Doing

Here's part of an e-mail our leaders sent to the team...


We are going to Kampala first where we will spend 5 days of training in country. We will have electricity, well, most of the time or off and on, in Kampala. We can charge our phones/ ipods etc there.

Once we get the Moroto, the small town at the base of the mountain, there IS cell service, and you can pay some small store a fee and they will charge your phone for you ( funny because their power comes from a car battery!) BUT we will only be THERE for one day before heading up the mountain. Once in the village, guys this is primitive. We will carry in all of our water, we will have no electricity, we will have no cell service. We will have two way radios- walkie-talkies- to communicate with each other while on the mountain.


We will be taking the public bus from Kampala to Moroto (anywhere from 8 to 20 hours depending on the weather, driver, passengers, and animals on the road- that's Africa!) You will be carrying everything you bring- pack light. From Moroto, we will hike to the village where we are camping. We think we have found a shorter- but much harder- route. We are anticipating 6 to 8 hours, but really have no way of knowing. You will need to be prepared to carry everything you bring- pack light.



Speaking of coming out of the country, there is a super wonderful chance that you might get to raft the Nile! This is tentative, but we want to let you know NOW because if it is something you might like to do, you need an extra $100 spending money to pay for this. If you don't, well, i just wish i could take your place, because i want to but can't! :) (Tye says, be prepared it is the hardest rafting in the world!)

We will be eating beans and posho (ground corn) every day. We MIGHT have oatmeal for breakfast or ramen noodles for lunch, but FOR SURE beans and posho for 1 to 3 meals a day. You might want to pack trail mix and protein bars in every spare inch of your backpack... tuna in pouches is good too for protein...(But this is just for personal taste, don't worry, you will have food, you just might want to supplement with variety.) Once a week we will be getting veggies from Moroto to last us the next few days.


Sounds fun eh?!?!?!

I'm excited! Adevnture!