Source of the Nile??? Mystery Cache

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Carbon Hunter: Sadly this becomes a "virtual" all too often between maintenance visits. And my Ugandan cacher is also sadly on his way back stateside.

Need to archive this.

a great spot for a future cache!!!!

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Hidden : 12/6/2007
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Located near what the Ugandans will say is the source of the Nile at Ripon Falls in Jinja. Asking a Rwandan will give you a totally different location! Cache is NOT at these co-ordinates. Solve the PUZZLE below.

The source of the Nile, alluded to hazily in the ancient writings of Ptolemy, stood as one of the great geographical mysteries of the Victorian Age. The desire to uncover this geographic Holy Grail inspired the epic journeys of exploration undertaken by Livingstone, Stanley, Burton and Speke. And it was the latter, John Hanning Speke, on a pioneering 1862-3 expedition around Lake Victoria, who first controversially suggested that a small waterfall flowing northward out of the lake might be the legendary spring - a theory whose accuracy was confirmed more than ten years later by Stanley. Flanked today by the city of Jinja, the waterfall described by Speke now lies submerged beneath the Owen Falls Dam,Uganda’s main source of hydro-electric power. Still, a visit to the source of the Nile remains a moving and wondrous experience, no less so to those who have seen the same river as it flows past the ancient Egyptian temples of Luxor some 6,000 km downstream. Closer to home, the Nile downriver from Jinja offers some superb white water rafting and game fishing. Its crowning glory, however, is Murchison Falls, where the world’s longest river funnels through a narrow fissure in the Rift Escarpment to erupt out of the other side in a crashing 43 metres plume of white water. The river below the falls is no less spectacular in its own way, with its profuse birdlife, thousands of hippos, and outsized, gape-mouthed crocodiles.

THE PUZZLE:
There is a monument to a famous person near these co-ordinates. There are 3 dates on this monument:
A.BC.DEFG - HI.J.KLMN - and a more modern date of:
P October QRST
The FINAL cache is near the car park at the following co-ordinates:
North (N) IC° AP.AMS East(E) HH° KB.NRH

Small note on cache maintenance: Ugandaguy has graciously offered to assist. Thanks!

NOTE: If you get here and the cache is muggled again - post a FIND with a photo of you at the source. I'll make sure thast it is replaced. We try hard - but it does go missing from time to time.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ng gur onfr bs n gerr fghzc va na nag urnc. Cyrnfr zbir njnl sebz pnpur gb bcra nf gurer vf n snveyl ynetr uvxvat cnpxrg nebhaq vg sbe jngrecebbsvat.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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