Fort Portal, Uganda Travel Blogs

The Murchison to Fort Portal rally drive
Jan 22, 2006 (2 photos)

... beige top was red!), 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 ...

Damp and disheveled.
Aug 14, 2007

... after 2 days of continuous torrential downpour, on the back of a boda-boda (motorbikes). Terror. But we make it and are now in Fort Portal, one of the last stops before heading back to nairobi for the flight home, one week today. I can hardly believe it. ...

I arrive in Fort Portal
May 22, 2005 (1 photos)

... to post anything on the Internet, so I'm going back and putting in some entries for previous days. Yesterday I arrived in Fort Portal at a small hotel called the Rwenzori Travel Inn (the Rwenzoris are the local mountain range). There are mosquito nets, ...

Lake Nkuruba fun!
Jun 19, 2009

... cost of 80,000UGX which is around 23 pounds), and planned to spend 12th-14th June in the crater lakes region near to Fort Portal. I was especially pleased about this as I had been there just about a month previously, to go chimp tracking. It is a very ...

A crazy day
May 25, 2005 (3 photos)

Our first task for today was to attach the pole with the wireless antenna to the roof of the community center. After watching both Mark and Bob try it yesterday, I decided that climbing onto the roof was the right thing to do. What a view! The only ...

Chimp Tracking in Fort Portal
Mar 26, 2007 (3 photos)

... code means that married men generally no longer visit prostitutes, and their wives end up bearing more children as a result. Once in Fort Portal I took a matatu to Nkingo village, which is about 35km from the town, and lies on the boundary of Kibale ...

We're on "Africa Time"... Big time!
Jul 24, 2007 (77 photos)

... doing it ON THE NILE was the coolest part! Got some good photos too. Today we took an (agonizing) bus here to Fort Portal, Uganda, a cute, quiet little town in Western Uganda. We're here tonight but heading to Kibale National Park tomorrow, about an hour ...

a relaxing day at the lake.......eventually
Jul 26, 2007 (42 photos)

She says: Alright.....so We caught a shared taxi yesterday to Lake Nkuruba (shared meaning NINE people in a Toyota Corolla). We stayed at a great campsite right on the lake....really beautiful and a good time to relax. We went for a bit of a walk in ...

Ross and I travel around a bit
Dec 5, 1996

Fun!

Day Forty Nine - Kibale National Park
Jul 1, 2009

... so it's quite amusing to hang out with him and take the piss! We then set off for Kibale. There are cows here with huge horns so we had several photo stops to take pictures of them. Uganda is very green and lush, even more so than Tanzania or Kenya.

Fort? Portal? Not really...
Jan 3, 2009 (1 photos)

... or Middle-Eastern Pitta) and more. A similae occasion has happened to us in Kyenjojo, a town located 30 minutes drive from Fort Portal. After 4 hours of driving, we started to feel hungry, and I decided to try the meat. At the beginning I ...

Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale National Park
Aug 6, 2009 (15 photos)

... roll out before 6am, and commence the long drive back to Kampala, around that nightmarish traffic jam, and then across country to Fort Portal. The drive takes about seven hours with pee stops and photo stops. Once in Fort Portal we have another half hour ...

Fort Portal and the crater lakes
Jun 22, 2008 (3 photos)

... to go to at the crater lakes. We thought they were trying to get too much money from us and therefore decided to just stay in Fort Portal instead. Before we knew it a shared taxi said he was going to the lakes and it would cost 3,000USH/1pound each - so we ...

Postal bus, oh how we love you
Jul 12, 2006

... window at a stop, but as we pulled into town we were very happy to see a postal bus parked with a sign that read "Mbarara-Fort Portal via Kasese" - it was possibly the only direct bus that exists! As soon as we arrived at the bus park we grabbed boda-bodas ...

Ituri Rainforest and Pygmies
Aug 7, 2009 (20 photos)

Our drive to the Ituri Forest takes about three hours this morning including a petrol stop in Fort Portal and many stops for photos of people and stunning views. We approach the Rwenzori Mountains and reach a point where we can see the Albertine Rift ...

Bigodi Wetlands and Farm Hike
Aug 8, 2009 (20 photos)

We have a civilized departure this morning to visit the Bigodi wetlands for bird watching and primate viewing. Several of the gang decides to remain at the lodge today and luxuriate in the lovely surroundings and fine service. The drive takes us back to ...

Animals in camp and another road trip
Jul 6, 2009 (4 photos)

... affair followed by another few hours of sunbathing and lunch at noon before a 3 hour drive from Hippo Hill to Fort Portal. As usual the roads were poor and lightly tarmacced, but driving through the villages and Ruwenzori mountains was lovely and ...

Packing them in like sardines
Jul 13, 2006

... again...we decided to just take a day trip to Lake Nkuruba, one of the several crater lakes that is the region surrounding Fort Portal. And we changed our minds several times about which route we would take to Murchison Falls National Park. First it was ...

Was für eine wunderschöne Landschaft!
Oct 25, 1998

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The Jungle Boots are water logged
Oct 8, 2007 (2 photos)

Melanie and I arrived in Fort Portal tody.  We took the "Uganda Post Bus" which delivers mail to basically every town from Kampala to Fort Portal.  It was really packed at points but really cheap and a great way to see the country.  It ...