Climbing higher and higher – Day 3

Day 3

We left John Matte and headed to Bujuku Camp which was located approximately 3, 500m. We would climb to a higher elevation by nearly 600m. This was exciting. Just before we left early this morning – I just had to take some pictuires of the sunrise. It was so surreal that I don’t think pictures do it justice:

With the change in elevation, came the change in vegetation type too – absolutely amazing and intriguing. The initial walk on this day was through a rather boggy area - known as Bigo Bog. Fortunately there was a board walk we could walk over to avoid the wet and rather precarious boggy areas. Beware of Bigo Bog - very very muddy....

I was grateful for the company of my only other female companion – Susan – phew

As I have indicated in my earlier write up – the vegetation of this ecosystem is incredible. Here are some pictures of the wonderful scenes of the floral at just over 3,000m....

This is a young everlasting flower plant encassed in some web-like thing. It was just amazing.

Everlasting flowers.....in blooom...

The valleys in this area were also phenomenal. In some areas it was a combination of valley and bogs, while in another areas it was valley and Scenecio forests/mosses and liverworts . Incredible

Ohhh and the wonderful slow yet beautiful creature of the land:

As we neared Bujuku Camp – I sighted the amazing Stanley and Alexander Glaciers – just breathtaking.

Then we got to Bujuku Lake – first time I had encountered a high elevation lake in an African mountain. Here I give you Bujuku Lake – and the standalone rock in the lake is famously refered to as Noah’s ark. Don’t ask.

Though the camp was located not very far from the lake – the walk between the lake and camp was incredibly tiring as it was muddy and boggy. Not very nice if you are tired – but we made it to camp after more than 5 hours of walking. Tea was just in order…..