Country Info
- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Uganda
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Kampala Serena Hotel
110 reviews -
Imperial Resort Beach Hotel Entebbe
23 reviews -
Sheraton Kampala
100 reviews
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Hotel Africana Kampala
28 reviews
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Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel Entebbe
24 reviews
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Pr Kampala
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Mosa Court Apartments Kampala
11 reviews -
Speke Hotel Ltd Kampala
39 reviews
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Hotel International 2000 Limited Kampala
2 reviews
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Mbale Resort Hotel Ltd
9 reviews
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Prestige Apartments Kampala
3 reviews
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Airport View Hotel Entebbe
16 reviews
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Lake View Resort Hotel Mbarara
15 reviews -
Shangri-La Hotel Uganda Ltd. Kampala
14 reviews
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Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel Entebbe
22 reviews
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Lillian Towers Hotel Lira
4 reviews
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Buziga Country Resort Kampala
3 reviews
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Soroti Hotel
6 reviews
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Emin Pasha Hotel Kampala
38 reviews
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Tourist Hotel Kampala
13 reviews
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Golden Ark Hotel Soroti
1 review
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Fairway Hotel Kampala
41 reviews
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Metropole Hotel Kampala
29 reviews
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Executive Airport Hotel Entebbe
18 reviews
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Fang Fang Hotel Kampala
12 reviews -
Hotel Ruch Kampala
16 reviews
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Andrieta Beach Hotel Entebbe
6 reviews
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Grand Imperial Kampala
14 reviews
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Cassia Lodge Kampala
98 reviews
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Hairy Lemon Jinja
25 reviews
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Holiday Express Hotel Kampala
7 reviews
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Jinja Nile Resort
18 reviews
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Hotel Diplomate Kampala
4 reviews
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Dolphin Suites Kampala
4 reviews
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Lake Bunyonyi Overland Resort Kisoro
11 reviews
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Hotel Equatoria Kampala
3 reviews
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Protea Hotel Kampala
28 reviews
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Traveler's Rest Hotel Kisoro
33 reviews
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Hotel Le Bougainviller Kampala
20 reviews
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Imperial Royale Hotel Kampala
14 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Uganda
Cold-cocked in Kensington, gobsmacked in Kampala
This is a top pick! ... and bandits patrol this zone, a borderless concept that disregards national boundaries, incorporating a swathe of southern Sudan, north-eastern Uganda and northern Kenya. Take your chances on top of the canvas coverings of 10-ton trucks, or in faster ...
Joining the Jinja Tourism Board
This is a top pick! ... Omar's t-shirts but I had to spend quite a few hours directing him on how to do it and spell the words properly for his "Uganda Chapati Company" I also wanted to get a small JTB added to my bright orange t-shirt so I had to oversee that process too, but ...
Garden City
This is a top pick! ... skills and we had a nice dinner of chicken curry and rice. We have a very early start in the morning as we are in for a long drive to QE2 Park in western Uganda. Should be fine though with the nice bus and comfy seats and extra room to stretch out. -js ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 4 - Stuck in a hole
This is a top pick! 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 ...
How to become a gypsy in 3 simple steps
This is a top pick! ... shoes, then proceed to wander barefoot around the dusty roads of Africa. Step 3: Write "gypsy" on your customs entrance form for Uganda. Presto, you are now officially a barefooted gypsy. After customs we made it to Kabale fairly quickly and set up camp. ...
Relax on the Ssese Islands
This is a top pick! ... 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% ...
Sabinio - Three countries in one day
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Hippos in the night
This is a top pick! ... of 3 rhinos and we were allowed to spend 30 minutes with them. They were white rhinos and it is a project at Ziwa to repopulate Uganda with these endangered animals. It was great to be able to see rhinos in the wild from that close up. After the rhino ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 6 - Muppets
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 3 - The real bog begins
This is a top pick! ... also, 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 ...
Muhuvura - The perfect cone.
This is a top pick! ... George 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 ...
Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Murchison to Fort Portal rally drive
This is a top pick! ... internet 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 ...
Kampala, Uganda - This place is bonkers.
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Murchison Falls by bike, bus and boat.
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
A little town called Katwe
This is a top pick! ... didn't last long though and we were on the road again quickly. Eventually we made it to Queen Elizabeth 2 National Park in western Uganda. It was much more dry and hot and arid than I was expecting. Not much greenery, just sun-baked savannah for miles ...
near...'Death on the Nile'.....extreme rafting
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Laid up at Lake Bunyonyi
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Hakuna Matata
This is a top pick! ... It 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 ...
Bigodi Wetland - Monkeys birds and a home stay
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Kampala and goodbye Uganda
This is a top pick! ... Besides 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 ...
Nairobi to Kampala via Mbale
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
Compromised in Kasese
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Kasese to Lake Bunyonyi - Show me the money
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day1 - The custard debacle
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Kampala for one night
This is a top pick! I arrived in Kampala late at night from Jinja and got to Red Chilli Hideaway, a backpackers hot-spot in Kampala. I just grabbed a quick dinner and sorted my bags out for the day trip to Murchison Falls the next day then pretty much went to sleep. Nothing ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 2 - Afternoon Storm
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Bujuku - Mubuku - Day 5 - Gutted
This is a top pick! 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 ...