Like many of the places I have been through since arriving in Africa, Nakuru is a place I had never heard about. By the way, that's a ridge of the Great Rift Valley, just behind the Rhino. These photos are once again the product of me listening to someone who said “you otta' go there.”

Me too. I didn't really know what a Dhow is, was or will be. But the small boat called the Dhow has arrived and departed the east coast of Africa for more than a thousand years.

While in Uganda I had the chance to visit spots away from the maddening crowd. The roads out there are active with commerce, since that is one of the only ways the folks from the villages can “go to market.”

This is a special place in northern Uganda where the Nile River passes through a gap in the rock of just nine meters. The result is a torrent of African water that no one at any time could pass through alive.

That's the name of the rather cool place I stayed while visiting Kibale National Park in western Uganda.