Kabale, Uganda Travel Blogs

Kabale
Jan 13, 2007

Kabale

Back to Kabale
Feb 8, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 nice town with good humoured people and relatively little hassle. Caught up on e-mail, blog site and popped into ...

Last days in Uganda
May 15, 2008

When I last blogged we were heading back to Uganda to Lake Bunyoni, a popular chill out spot with travellers in Western Uganda. We had a 4.30am start from Rwanda and got the bus from Kigali to Kabale (near to the lake). We nearly missed the town Kabale ...

Kabale
Jan 28, 2007

... waving then suddenly turned nastly and startedf giving us the finger.  lovely.  we are now at lake bunyoni, just outside of kabale, near the rwandan border, and are here for 5 nights so we can all do the gorilla treks.  i will be uplaoding ...

Camp on the lake
Oct 25, 2009 (2 photos)

Had an early morning start as we had to drive 50km in very mountainous terrain, average altitude is 1900mtrs. The drive took us into some magnificent country through little villages. Unbeknown to us tourism into this area is relatively new thus people ...

Lake Bunyonyi
Jun 19, 2009

... camp. They were leaving on the Friday but we planned to meet in Kampala for a night out on Saturday to say goodbye to Uganda in style. I spent today intermittently trying to brave the water and read my book. The water is not very inviting but I did get ...

Lake Bunyonyi and the Pigmeys
Jul 18, 2009 (18 photos)

Lake Bunyonyi ("Place of many little birds") lies in south western Uganda between Kisoro and Kabale close to the border with Rwanda. It is about 25 km long and 7 km wide. The depth of the lake is rumored to vary between 44 m and 900 m, which if ...

starting to relax
Oct 30, 2008 (38 photos)

... to have some hot drinks in a cool little café/art and craft gallery, where all the profits went to an AIDS organisation. We got to Kabale mid-late afternoon to stock up on food etc, and as I was on cooking that day I went to help Su get the fresh veggies ...

Respite at Lake Bunyoni
Aug 7, 2007 (5 photos)

... taxi) rides and a long boda boda ride through the most rural Rwandan and Ugandan areas, in order to reach Kabale, a large town in southwestern Uganda. This post will mostly detail some amusing things about rural areas in this region, as well as a short ...

Church by canoe - and thousands of plaits
Dec 4, 2005 (29 photos)

From Queen Elizabeth National Park we arrived in Kabale, in Southern Uganda. We found the quaintest hostel yet, Edirisa, which we were to use as a base for the next week. Edirisa was founded by a Slovenian documentarist Miha, and is a guesthouse, fair ...

Bikinis and Compost Toilet
May 17, 2008

Today we did a small hike to the top of the island. There are people who live on the island. The locals were glad to see us walk through their property and wave hello. Along the way, we would stop to chat briefly to the kids. The rest of the day was ...

Lac Bunyoni
Aug 9, 2009 (6 photos)

L ouganda est parmis les plus pauvres du monde et pourtant cela ne se constate pas trop. Les infrastructure sont assez bonnes et fonctionnent (que cela fait du bien d avoir un distributeur autiomatique qui vous delivre de l argent apres avoir vecu 2 ...

Repos
Aug 12, 2009 (1 photos)

Je reviens dans cette ville. Je pars voir les gorilles le lendemain en louant un taxi. Depart 4H30 du matin. ces denniers jours j ai enfiles les bus a 6H donc je commence a fatiguer. Mais les jus de fruit frais du style jus d ananas et jus de passion me ...

35 and counting
May 16, 2008

... - Jody and Blake. It seems like there are only women travellers in Africa. I'm not complaining. Our taxi ride from Kabale to the pier was somewhat eventful. The driver's car started overheating half way there. I had absolutely no clue what to do ...

Relaxing by Lake Bunyoni
Mar 29, 2007 (8 photos)

... reluctantly brought me back to the other matatu. I got out, changed car, and was delighted when we left for Kabale almost immediately. I ate a quick breakfast in Kabale, another fairly typical African town, with a long main street lined with one-story ...

Looking out the window and taking it all in
May 15, 2008

Lynsey and I left the community camp today and made our way to the South Western part of Uganda. Our destination was a town called Kabale. There isn't much to do in Kabale but its used as a base to visit the islands by Lake Bunyoni. Lake Bunyoni is ...

A Stolen Hat
Jun 6, 2007 (4 photos)

Another long day on the truck to get to the gorillas placed us in Kabale, Uganda.  These first days are really about getting to gorilla trekking so aside from the great views, there isn't much to tell.  We are getting to know our truck mates ...

Uganda Days
Jan 18, 2009

... ... depends on a person. But it does not leave you standing still! So what can I tell you about Uganda?! That it has a beautiful countryside, that here in Kabale RAINS, that people point @ you in the bus - yes, visibly WHITE! It's backwards in a cool ...

Impenetrable Forest
Sep 4, 2007

Later

back to the field work...
Jan 5, 1997

f

Voll Gorillamässig drauf
Nov 8, 1998

xxx

Gorillas in the Mist
Oct 30, 2009 (9 photos)

... we waited for our Gorilla Trekking certificates. Once done, we piled back into our taxi for our lunch drive back. We were back in Kabale by 2pm to be told that the road was still too dicey and that the truck would not be carrying on to Lake Bunyoni and we ...

Early morning motorcycling....
Jul 10, 2006

... , but we flagged some guys down after not too long. Africa certainly gets up early. We had a reasonably pleasant ride to Kabale, with only a few money changing hassles at the border. First we had to negotiate a decent rate and had completed a transaction, ...

on the road to Queen Elizabeth Park
Aug 1, 2007 (17 photos)

... a major crop in the central, eastern and western regions. The north is a preserve for cotton, millet and cassava growing. Uganda's banana crop, which is planted over 1.5 million hectares of arable land, serves the country's population with 500 pounds of ...

Chilling out in Lake Bunyonyi
Oct 31, 2009 (2 photos)

We had a well earned sleep in today although only to just after 9 but it was great to have a decent nights sleep instead of having to get up at 6. We were though woken several times in the night by heavy rain which got us worried that we might be stuck up ...

Kabale
Jul 15, 2006 (4 photos)

...

Kabale and the bus journey
Jun 17, 2008

... ,000USh for ensuite room), where I had a buffet vege meal of beans and rice and potatoes and veg for 2500USH/70p!! lovely. Kabale itself is a one street town - a stopping point before moving to other places really. At least there are the basics of an ...

We are about to see the gorillas
May 16, 2009

We have just arrived and are leaving for the gorillas tomorrow. I am going to keep this short because we are paying for the internet and have just spent the whole day in the truck. The drive to the gorillas will take 4 hours in a small van so not ...

Day Fifty Two - Lake Bunyonyi
Jul 4, 2009

6:30am breakfast so we dragged ourselves out of bed and were on the road for 7:30. Game drive. We stopped for lunch in Kabale, and had to organise our own lunch so after hitting the supermarket we search for a restaurant where we can eat. After asking ...

free night at kabale
Jun 22, 2008

... phone and wanted to talk to Karl. He apologised for the guide and offered us a free night in his sister hotel in Kabale, which we were shocked and impressed with. Unfortunately the Amagara hotel has a nightclub next door that plays music until 2am on ...