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We get a taste of this at the military controlled bridge at Karuma falls. This is just another reason we are happy to be with Hendri: after an hour of heated discussion over our permits, the soldiers are all smiles and well wishing.Youre not really going in that river? A man in fatigues asked and then said, They are relocating the big man eating crocs from Replica Franck Muller watches Lake Victoria here so, you must be crazy!I silently agree with butterflies now ready to burst out of my gut.The first rapid is one of the biggest I have ever run. A few hundred meters downstream, Chris says, Wow, there really are a lot of hippos in here. I have not seen a single one. Just then a four-foot-long, prehistoric head lifts out of the water like some creepy Disney ride.
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