Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Baker's Fort



On Friday, our group visited Patiko, Baker’s Fort.  It was a bumpy, 1.5 hour drive out there but so worth the views we got!  Unfortunatly, a few of us got a little sick from the ride, but so is life.




Fort Patiko is about 32 K north of Gulu.  The first road we tried actually ended up not working out because the rains had flooded it too much that there was a truck stuck in the mud.  The 137-year-old fort was built in 1872 by Sir Samuel Baker, a British explorer and anti-slave trade campaigner.  It’s a scenic place on top of a hill in Ajulu Parish that looks out across the plains toward South Sudan.

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