Jinja, Uganda Travel Blogs

Rafting With Ugandans
Feb 6, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 water ...

Jinja...Adrenaline capital of Uganda............
Oct 10, 2005 (3 photos)

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 the ...

spider island and bald heads
Jun 10, 2008

... 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
Apr 14, 2007 (16 photos)

... 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
Feb 3, 2007 (2 photos)

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 nile.  ...

On to Uganda
Jan 25, 2007 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

Opening cont....
Jul 21, 2006 (5 photos)

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Rafting the Nile
Sep 12, 2006

... the waterfall, except that we got stuck, wedged between the rocks, hanging off it 3m up. Our guide, Jeffrey, no1, kayaker in Uganda and been to Sydney Olympics goes 'ah...now we have to bounce!!' so we stood up jumped around until we got shifted! Whoosh! ...

ITANDA = The Bad Place
May 19, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

A Dip at 50/50 and Tandem Kayaking.
Jun 5, 2009

... my bum from being bared to the world! The river has Bilharzia in it but it's pretty easy to pick up drugs for it around Uganda so I'll sort some out this week. I decided to go down the river in a tandem kayak today which was bigger, scarier and more ...

The Source of the (Blue) Nile, Jinja
Aug 22, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Getting there - Where??
Jun 2, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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!
May 18, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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!
May 22, 2006 (5 photos)

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 ...

Big night, equally big head!
Jun 10, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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!
Mar 13, 2006 (3 photos)

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!!
May 9, 2006 (4 photos)

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
Apr 23, 2007

... 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!
Jul 19, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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 - ...

This is Extreme!
Mar 13, 2009 (22 photos)

... 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 ...

Opening Ceremony!
Jul 21, 2006 (5 photos)

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... see ...

The Mayhem of the classroom
Jun 5, 2006 (5 photos)

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 ...

Into the Heart of Darkness (1)
Jul 17, 2007

... the back of a flat bed truck was definitely a key part of the experience.  For the first time since I arrived in Uganda, the local people greeted us with an equal mix of enthusiasm and contempt.  Some people smiled, waved and shouted greetings, ...

Life in Uganda
Mar 18, 2006 (4 photos)

... duplicate!** Hello everyone-- For the last week (and the next three) I have been living in Bujugali falls (near Jinja), in the southeast of Uganda. Though I have only been here for a short time I am constantly surprised and amazed; at the scenery, ...

Swimming, Horse Riding and the Source of Nile
Jul 25, 2009 (15 photos)

... source of the great river Nile, then went by a fishermen village on Lake Victoria, where I enjoyed the "matoke"  (local dish made of green bananas) and a delightful fish stew, plus a beer. Last day in Uganda. I want to come here again.

Sources du Nil
Aug 15, 2009 (10 photos)

J ai fait pour la deuxieme fois les sources du Nil. En effet, je les avais deja vu au Burundi. Celle en Ouganda sont plus commerciale. En effet, il ne s agit pas de sources a propement parler, car on voit le fleuve Nil-Victoria sortant du lac Victoria. ...

Guess who had malaria again??
Jul 17, 2006 (5 photos)

Hello everyone! Im so sorry that i havent up dated the blog in a while but ive got a great excuse! Last Saturday i was digging up the floor of the boys dorm with a hoe (hard hard work) along with 3 other gorgeous volunteers - Ed, Rob and Hannah.. ...

The Bad Place (2)
Jul 17, 2007

... , the US and England among other places while we sipped on ice cold "Source of the Nile" beers (the brewery is right downtown Jinja).  Everyone agreed that our boat seemed to be doomed from the Get-go.  I guess I'm going to have to work on my ...

Goodbye Africa!
Apr 5, 2006 (4 photos)

... year has flown by...but then I think about what I've done so far and it's amazing that it's only April. So I'm leaving Uganda. And I'm pretty bummed about it. It seems unlikely that such good relationships would form in such a short time, but... I was ...

Rafting the Nile.
Jun 3, 2009

I travelled by matatu from Kampala to Jinja on Tuesday morning. The journey through eastern Uganda is beautiful - fields upon fields of tea plantations that are the most verdant green you could imagine. A little boy came to sit next to me on the matatu to ...