Source of the Nile

After the Amahoro Gathering, our friend Ronald drove us to Jinja so we could see the source of the Nile. We had to do some hunting for the road, so we felt like intrepid explorers, revisiting the quest of John Hanning Speke and his rivals. They must not have seen the sign.Speke did not really discover the source of the Nile. The official source is now thought to be farther away, at the beginning of other rivers and streams that feed Lake Victoria. And he was obviously not the first to look over this spot--then, as now, fishing boats were scattered across the river. But he was the first to recognize this as the place where the longest river in the world begins its course from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. A little further downstream, we could see why they call this part of the river the White Nile.