Walking the Nile

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The threat of rain has finally passed and the most annoying issue at the moment are rogue scorpions which find their way into my boots with some regularity. Day 73-74 – We pushed on through acres of sugar plantations where once savannah grassland was found only a couple of years ago. The damp, humid, energy sapping conditions which Levison has become so familiar with since the start of the journey have now altered to being even hotter yet much drier as he enters the desert wastelands of Sudan.

The legacy of those awful times still persists so it is only correct to respect the wishes of the local people to make certain we do not wander into ‘the killing fields’ that surround most villages. With a baby monkey in tow we proceed north from Baale pushing a hard 32km mainly along a track that parallels the Victoria Nile.

Further to that extract taken from his diary, Levison has further explained his decision by detailing a far more graphic explanation of what took place. We have set ourselves a daily target average of anything over 30 kilometres and to achieve the bulk of the distance before a mid day break. Day 70-72 – I left the city of Jinja after a morning of administration following a week off walking. Guarding against the perils of nature is an inherent part of any trek throughout Africa, but with the added risk of being shot at or worse, makes lighting a fire and camping at night in the bush seem doubly dangerous. Spreading inland from the northern shores of Lake Albert it is named after the Murchison Falls waterfall.

After seeing Florence safely off to Entebbe, now slightly behind track the team carry on towards Lake Kyoga. Levison has sent to this newspaper the following extracts taken from his expedition diary for readers to enjoy his recent exploits.Deciding that it would be foolhardy and reckless to try to walk through the middle of a war zone, in which people are starving and dying, I made the heart wrenching decision to fly from Juba to North Sudan and continue my journey from there. Levison has sent along the following extracts from his diary to illustrate his concerns, hopes and fears for the next part of his expedition. The former paratrooper, aged 31, of Cheadle Road, Forsbrook, has maintained a magnificent pace of averaging 100 plus miles each week since his start in the Rwandan Highlands at the beginning of December 2013. Suddenly the silence that perpetuates the town is abruptly broken as we hear gunshots in the distance.