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Jinja Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Jinja, Uganda
Joining the Jinja Tourism Board
This is a top pick! ... a tragedy, so I tried to think of how lucky I was to be enjoying it. The sun soon went down on our last night in Jinja as our time in Uganda came to an end. We had a local African lady come in to cook us a traditional dinner of goat stew, tilapia (fish) ...
The Death Pit
This is a top pick! ... the most I have ever felt like I was truly out in the world and backpacking. Driving down a red dirt/mud road in rural Uganda on the back of a locals 50cc motorcycle, with my backpack strapped on my back and my day-pack strapped to the bike. Little ...
Rafting With Ugandans
This is a top pick! ... road, a causeway leading from life to death, and ultimately the afterlife. No where on the Nile is this truer than in Jinja, Uganda where after parting with a few dollars you can risk premature departure to the afterlife on some of the wildest white ...
Jinja...Adrenaline capital of Uganda............
This is a top pick! So, here we are in Jinja, our final destination in Uganda, tommorow we cross the border and take in 3 different towns in Kenya...Eldoret, Lake Naivasha and Nairobi. Since we left the Gorillas in the Congo and travelled back to the town of Kisoro for ...
spider island and bald heads
... it was insane!!!!! we rode to jinja in a taxi full of twenty people and a chicken. the classic experiences of being in uganda will probably be the things i miss the most in five weeks. the nile was huge and so powerful... we went through ...
Easter on the White Nile
... Dar to Entebbe -- at least we got free donuts out of the delay. Anyway the only airport in Uganda is in Entebbe which is 3 hours from Jinja, so we landed and caught a taxi to Kampala($40) and checked into the Red Chilly Hideaway backpackers ont he ...
Jinja
today we are back in eastern uganda, by the source of the nile. The town is called jinja and is right on the banks of lke victoria. theres various stuff to do here including white water rafting, quad biking and zip lining across the ...
On to Uganda
... the extremely bumpy and scary-looking Kenyan roads, past some more beautiful views over the Great Rift Valley, and crossed the border into Uganda. We camped at an area called Sipi Falls. As we arrived late in the evening I did not have much time to ...
White water rafting on a grade 5 rapid
Jinja in Uganda is well known as the source of the Nile with some great white water! We signed up for a days rafting and we couldn't have asked for a funnier guide in Alex. During his safety talk Emma (Swedish girl) asked how safe the rapids were? ...
Jinja
... the background. After briefly loosing my friend during a run, she has been found and now I am preparing to go clubbing tonight. Tomorrow its a cookout, then up to Bududa for my first day of work. Though bududa is far, I do love driving around in Uganda. ...
The mighty Nile of Uganda
After leaving Queen Elizabeth National Park we made the long drive to Entebbe, one of the major cities in Uganda. Down the road from the campsite was a sports bar that provided the local entertainment for the night. The next day we embarked on a boat ...
ITANDA = The Bad Place
... paddle. We met our guides, Nathan and Paulo (a national freestyle champion in kayaking). We met our group, Americans living in Uganda, and named ourselves TEAM UPRIGHT. We survived the first few rapids. We flipped our raft on "50-50". We swallowed ...
This is Extreme!
... have it.. wait.... Add incredible dust and heat! Romy and I made our way through the madness and boarded a coaster bus headed for Jinja. Two not so comfortable hours later we arrived in Jinja. We had plans to meet up with our friends Matt and James...who ...
The Source of the (Blue) Nile, Jinja
... town for an ice cream milkshake. Failed. Always crushed ice with syrup. Tastes horrible when you are expecting creamy thickness of heaven. Jinja, on Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile River. Or at least the source of the Blue Nile. Or at least one ...
Drowned Rat...
Well last night saw me and a few others drinking into the early hours of the morning doing silly thinkg like drinking shots upside down in a kayak attached to the ceiling of the bar...was not feeling too great when I woke up, but strong coffee and ...
Getting there - Where??
... felt loved, felt i belonged, was well feed and secure in her home, and that i wanted that for their children in Uganda's Bell's House. I felt so complimented that they compaired me with Gran... It was so good to see the children again- many more, old ...
The bananas have washed away!
... and Shirray have a PC with internet connection - Thankfully they are so kind to let me use it! If i have to go back into Jinja to upload pictures and email to you - well that takes so long and therefore the updates wont be as quick coming! Ok everyone ...
On the Rocks!
Hello All! School started back today... I had so much fun with the children. We only had 7 today, pretty normal.. takes a while for information to filter back to the villages that school has started again. They were as delighted to see me as i was ...
The Muzungu Arrives
Helloooo everyone! I am writing this from an internet cafe in Jinja, the second largest city in Uganda which is about 20 minutes by taxi from where I am staying, Kyabirwa. I think it;s costing me 1000 shillings an hour (about 40p) so I'll have ...
Rafting the Nile
... working and explore further afield (not to mention having some "Westerner" company and even just seeing a white face). Jinja, backpacker capital of Uganda, ticked all these boxes. Fri arvo rolled round and I managed to get a lift to the main road ...
Big night, equally big head!
... relaxed! What a laugh! I hope these two hang around a while longer. They've been travelling independently from Jo'burg up to Uganda - impressive or what! So needless to say today I'm a little foggy! Well this week has been a busy one but not the ...
Soft Power!
Today I started my work with Soft Power. I went into the village of Buleeba with a local girl, Jessica, where we did malaria follow-up interviews. It was great, although not speaking the local language was a bit frustrating. It is also hard. I have ...
We've Started!!
Hello all Ive had the best day ever!! Yesterday i had a meeting with the school Head, Mike and Chairman, Sam to discuss the schools responsibilites to the dorm. Thankfully we've got this ironed out! They are responsible for its upkeep, maintance, ...
hell's gate, white water, and violence in the city
... to show up. when the latter's bus from nairobi finally arrived, we stumbled on over to the surprisingly anticlimatic "gate to uganda," paying $30 US for visas, earning ourselves shifty glances from the customs guys, and took off for jinja, some 2 hours ...
Nearly Finished!
... Athem, doing a welcome dance and then their drama. Their Drama is about the rejection Deaf and Disabled people often face in Uganda. Very moving and beauifully acted and Directed~! Ive made it very clear to the school that this is our childrens day ...
Opening Ceremony!
Hi All just a quick mail (this time) to let you know that the opening of Bell's House was a great success!! Im leaving Jinja tmw to spend sometime relaxing before returning home on Wednesday - yep a few days time!! Have a look at the photos... ...
The Mayhem of the classroom
Hello all! I was back to school today!! Yippeeee Im well enough to sit on a boda and go to school! I had two travellers come to class with me today. 2 ladies - much to the delight of the builders! It was mayhem! We had more children than we've ...