Experience of the one who dedicated his time to raise the resort to where it is.
Golden Ark Resort is situated at the shades of Ochuloi Rock sixteen kilometers from Soroti city on Soroti _Lira Highway.
Ochuloi, a sun-kissed outpost in eastern Uganda, a hundred-odd miles from the bustling capital, Kampala. A place where the relentless sun beats down, and the locals, hardened by the elements, seem impervious to its scorching rays.
A year ago, I found myself in this remote corner of the country, drawn by a friend’s ambitious hotel project. My friend, a man of many ventures, hails from these very lands, a place where his family still resides, though he now calls the more temperate climes of Kampala.
Ochuloi is a land of stark beauty, a canvas painted with hues of red earth and towering rock formations. As I worked alongside the local laborers, shaping bricks into what we called blocks, I witnessed a sight that would forever be etched in my memory. Women, their bodies lean and weathered, scaled these monolithic rocks, ascending with empty buckets and descending, burdened, their bare feet the only…