The day after rafting

I spent the day after rafting just relaxing. My body was a bit sore but it was more from the paddling on the calm stretches than being thrown around in the rapids. I took a boda boda into Jinja town, about 6km away. Half of the way is on a dusty dirt road but the delicious fragrance from the coffee bushes blossoms kind of evened it out. I just went to Jinja to check emails and write emails. I hung out with some British rafters my last night at the NRE camp. The showers at the camp are outdoor with one side of them completely exposed for views of the Nile while you wash. They are really cool, I wish my shower at home had that view! The showers are located on a steep forested hill where red tailed monkeys and monitor lizards live. While I was drying off I heard something in the bushes below my shower stall. I stopped moving and went to get my camera. It was a monitor lizard. He saw me too and we both looked at each other without moving. I won our staring game when the lizard broke away to go up the hill somewhere else. I could hear him escaping but didn't seem him well enough for a photo. My last morning I went back to the showers looking for a monitor lizard but I found red tailed monkeys instead. One of them was low in the branches and feeding on a jackfruit tree. The temptation of the fruit was too much and he let me approach close for some photos. I really like these campsites that wildlife frequents.
I ate a few chapathis for breakfast and took a boda boda back to Jinja, this time with all my things. I wrote for a while at an internet cafe and then hopped into a matatu westbound for Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. However, I wasn't heading to Kampala quite yet. I got off 2okm later at the low key Mabira Forest Reserve.