Today, Uganda is a safe country to visit and full of experiences for a tourist to enjoy. Queen Elizabeth Park offers a rich mix of elephants, hippos, crocodiles, lions, water buffalo, warthogs, antelope, and a vast array of sundry birds. In the southeastern corner of the country is world famous Lake Victoria. In addition, Uganda and neighboring Rwanda are the only two countries in the world where one can come face to face with a mountain gorilla. Chris and I hoped to experience all of these things, but our primary mission was to ski in the Rwenzori Mountains—the so-called “mountains of the moon”. The nickname goes all the way back to 150 A.D., when Ptolemy, a Greek geographer, referred to a range of glaciated peaks in central Africa by that name. It is today presumed that he was referring to the Rwenzori.
Skiing Queen Elizabeth
