Up the River Nile. Like, who needs a paddle?

On its website, the Samiya River Lodge looks like another Fabulous Eurospa. In reality it is more like Discovery Channel Meets TLC Network. Specifically, it is a semi-seedy older hotel with minimal amenities at the end of an incredibly long and dangerously tse-tse fly and killer baboon-riddled road, as well as being populated by overweight German tourists all uniformly quite desperately in need of a makeover.



We inquired of Chief Gordon as to why anyone would want to stay there and he assured us that if we met him in the lobby at 5:30 AM with packed breakfast and lunch he would show us why.
Why pre-dawn again? So Gordon can be first in line for the ferry boat.







What ferry boat? The one across the River Nile, of course.



Why cross the Nile? To enter the Game Park.






















But enough of all that. After a picnic lunch it is time for the Tourist Boat up (that would be southward) the River Nile.















Just past the cocodiles we will depart the boat for a little hike to the top of Murchison Falls.













It really is a beautiful hike, but it is still a little bit of a relief to reach the top.



So, as they say in Real Estate, location is everything and two nights in the cell phone and internet free zone of Samiya River Lodge suits me just fine.

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Location:Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda