Uganda Travel Blogs

... 1 hour with the gorillas to minimize the human impact on them. Anyway, on my Gorillas and Chimps tour through Kenya and Uganda.  Trekked in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and as our guide put it:  "Penetrated the Bush" to see the gorillas.& ...

A travel blog entry from Bwindi by tracystravels
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... seems I picked the perfect place for my first go at whitewater rafting - a section of the white Nile close to teh source in Uganda boasting a sucession of about 7 grade 5 rapids. Ok, so before this trip I wouldn't know a grade 5 rapid if it ripped me out ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by ad_n_caz
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4km 1400ft ascent and descent. Happy birthday to me. Up before dawn, Weetabix and a stroll back down to Lake Bujuku to see if I could spot Mt. Stanley through the clouds (morning and evening are usually best), no such luck though! Nice hike up to ...

A travel blog entry from Rwenzori Mountains by jonclark2000
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... island HIV infection rates were as high as 50% and there were no condoms available on the whole of the island. In Uganda as a whole he said that individual organisation had measured infection rates as high as 37%. The government's official figure was 7% ...

A travel blog entry from Buggala and the town of Kalangala by jonclark2000
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... and arranged hikes for 2 days of my stay. Tomorrow I'll be going up Sabinio, at just over 12,000ft it intersects the borders with Rwanda, Uganda and Congo, at the summit you are in three countries at once. The guy at the park HQ said this is only one of 3 ...

A travel blog entry from Sabinio (or Sabinyo how ever it is spelt) by jonclark2000
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... the Kogere Hotel where I found the electricity wasn't working, just like when I left. Ordered a Nile Special, this has to be Uganda's best beer, before showering and handing my clothes to a young lad for washing - After 6 days hiking it amazes me how clean ...

A travel blog entry from Rwenzori Mountains by jonclark2000
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... , lobelias and some joshua like looking plants. Caught a few glimpses of Margarita, the tallest peak on Mt. Stanley and also Uganda and the 3rd in Africa. Later that day passing Lake Bujuku we arrived at Bujuku hut and the starting point for ascents on ...

A travel blog entry from Rwenzori Mountains by jonclark2000
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... my guides were the nicest people you could want to meet and we had some great conversations on the way up about the differences between Uganda and the UK. They were amused when I said you can pay $3 for a pound of beef - they would pay 75c! They also ...

A travel blog entry from Kisoro by jonclark2000
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... and a fantastic chicken curry have helped paint a rosy picture of the pleasant Fort Portal. One of the nice drinks they have in Uganda is a ginger beer called Stoney Tangawizi, it made by Coke, god knows why they don't make it in the US, I'd buy buckets ...

A travel blog entry from Fort Portal by jonclark2000
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The water is still not working - toilets not in a good state by now. Managed to get the hotel next door to allow me to shower there. Was going to go to the Ethnographic Museum in the morning but luckily just before I set off I realized I couldn't read the ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by jonclark2000
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... in there to powder my nose! I think during the whole bus journey and even over lunch I didn't see one person smoking. Uganda must certainly have a very low smoking population. The afternoon bus ride was superb, we came over a small hill about mid- ...

A travel blog entry from Murchison Falls, Masindi by jonclark2000
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Quote of the day: "I should like to spend the whole of my in life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home." - -William Hazlitt Abstract: Went on the scariest white water rafting trip yet at the source of ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by grahamandrach
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... , kingfishers, lilac lilies and locals in their canoes! Bunyonyi is supposedly 6500ft deep and was billed as the deepest lake in Uganda! I paddled out Bushara Island and by the time I got there I was so tired and lethargic I couldn't even muster the ...

A travel blog entry from Lake Bunyonyi by jonclark2000
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Breakfast was included in the hotel price, I wasn't expecting too much but it turned into a feast. Coffee, fresh juice (tasted a bit like a mix between papaya and orange), bread fruit and a Spanish omelet, well that's what they said, I always though a ...

A travel blog entry from Bigodi by jonclark2000
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... the power was down as was the Internet, what else was I going to do with my time? Just thinking about my 5 weeks in Uganda/Rwanda so far I had managed to see gorillas, many species of primate, go on my first ever game safari and see lots of big game, ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by jonclark2000
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... 12th January 2007   I arrived early in the morning in Mbale, a quiet town near the North Eastern border between Uganda and Kenya.  It had magnificent views of the majestic Mount Elgon, the 3rd highest free standing mountain in Africa.  ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by dcm
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Abayudaya

A travel blog entry from Mbale by dcm
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... were the mountains directly east of the Congo rainforest and had a reputation for been some of the mistiest and rainy in the world! In Uganda the kids seem to know how to say 3 things and this town was no different. 'Hello', 'How are you?' and 'I'm ...

A travel blog entry from Kasese by jonclark2000
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... safari and we saw buffalo, warthogs, waterbuck and over 100 Thompson Gazelle along the way! Oh also crossed the Equator! Apparently Uganda is only one of 10 countries in the world the equator passes through. It must be plantain harvesting season as there ...

A travel blog entry from Kasese by jonclark2000
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10km and 3300ft Woke up with a slight swelling of the gums due to goat meat stuck in between my teeth, boy that stuff is stringy. Breakfast definitely not up to the quality of dinner, in the aim to go big the pancakes were about an inch thick and hence ...

A travel blog entry from Rwenzori Mountains by jonclark2000
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7km - 3000ft Weetabix and hot milk to get the day started. We dropped down to the Kurt Shaffer bridge where the Bujuku and Mubuku rivers converged (incidentally the hike was called the Bujuku - Mubuku circuit). We would follow the ...

A travel blog entry from Rwenzori Mountains by jonclark2000
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Kabale

A travel blog entry from Kabale by dcm
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5km - 900ft ascent - 3000ft descent Woke up to a fantastic blue sky. I was a bit gutted as I had decided at the start of my hike not to climb Margarita (16,763ft) mainly due to the $250 extra, not enough warm weather gear and the fact that most of ...

A travel blog entry from Rwenzori Mountains by jonclark2000
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I got up early and I did another swamp walk (as they called it). OK time for a rant, but it always amazes me the people who rush into these places do one walk and then rush off (it seemed from conversations and the guest book that this is what most people ...

A travel blog entry from Lake Nkuruba by jonclark2000
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Strange but true?: Chimpanzees in western Uganda are increasingly raiding illegal brewing operations in forested river valleys and getting drunk on the country beer. Once intoxicated, they become hostile and attack and at times kill human children, ...

A travel blog entry from Kigali, Rwanda via Uganda to Mwanza by grahamandrach
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... lusher and lusher, with stretches of papyrus and banana plants. We saw some Grey Crowned Cranes - the national bird of Uganda I think. Also near Jinja we crossed the White Nile - both Niles in one trip! It was getting dark when we ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by izzie
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Woke up to a dry overcast day, took a few snaps of the weaver birds that were everywhere. By the time 11am rolled around and a few sprinkles had fallen I decided to hightail out of that place a day ahead of schedule. Back to Kabale, it seems like a ...

A travel blog entry from Kabale by jonclark2000
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... Bish is beautiful and always has a smile and laugh for you. She went AWOL for a while to another part of Uganda, but fortunately came back before I had to leave. Jennifer, Lillian, Prossy, Margaret, Bela, John, Moses The backbone and ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by djchurch
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... this many parts of this continent are incredibly, awesomely poor. A friend of mine recently had an experience in northern Uganda where she does incredible work with youth, former child soldiers and abductees, and conflict management. It is a story that ...

A travel blog entry from Kampala by djchurch
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... industry for a free day on the river. Granted, I did not work in the tourism industry, but perhaps I had been living in Uganda long enough to become a weird, sad sort of attraction in its own right. Regardless, I was invited to come along. Let me say ...

A travel blog entry from Jinja by djchurch
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