Country Info
- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
Kampala Slideshow
Kampala
Travel Blogs from Kampala, Uganda
Here's Some More!!!
... ;m 14 years old!”), nice shoes (no jogging shoes, please no jogging shoes). If you never ironed before (which I never had before Uganda) you better get it into your head that you will be. It makes your clothes look smart and it kills any eggs that ...
Another Tale of Uganda Lifestyle
... than that if you blessedly have electricity and an electric water boiler thing. So, before I continue with the art of cooking (Uganda Style), just note the importance of clean, treated water. Don’t be that person who is always sick because he/she ...
Gorillas, here we come (or what's the ice made of)
... and that was a fun time. The people are very friendly and it was a real pleasure to mix with them. We then drove to Kampala, crossing the Nile on the way. We stopped at a flash new shopping centre to do some shopping and change money (and eat fried ...
Kampala!!!
This weekend a volunteer and I visited Kampala. It was great!!!!! We first went to a Korean restaurant for Karoke. Then someone broke into our car. Then we went to a club after reporting the car and dropping the tired people at home. By 4 am we were home ...
Bwindi and the Gorillas
... knew what they were in for. The next morning I felt decidedly unwell. Needless to say it was a VERY rough drive back to Kampala. 10hours on the worst roads you can imagine with an ill passenger is no treat. I felt really bad for Najina ...
Moving. How did it go?
Written by: Erica Moving is like one of those things that requires so much work that at the time I never want to go through it again. But when it is over and I am settled I tell myself that moving isn't that bad. I think the relief of ...
What a difference these guys make!
... at Mengo Palace, my next location, my guide Emmanuel points out various sites that can be seen on some of the 7 hills surrounding Kampala, including the mosque and the cathedral on two of them, and I realise just how far I’ve travelled. It’s ...
Birthday party
... city and apparently there have only been 4 in the last 10 years in a 10 mile radius so im okay with that. Coming to Kampala was very interesting. Leaving matuwa we were in a taxi sitting seven across in a seat designed for three on a bumpy road with my ...
Apologies to the Matoke
I feel slightly bad for the last entry: those of you with a 'world-conscience' will probably be aware that as a cheap and readily available food source that is also (I am told) fairly nutrition-rich, snubbing matoki is close to snubbing the poor who have ...
Trust
You know those kids in church or other public events who are a continuous distraction to everyone else around them? I know I've certainly seen a few of those kids and generally end up just watching them instead of what I’m supposed to be watching. ...
Up the Nile
... a busy week. I think when I last wrote I was about to undertake a fun 21 hour bus ride from Arusha in Tanzania, to Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. This was, as expected, not fun. But hey, we did it, and there was a minorly diverting incident, when ...
The End of the Chapter
One more day. One more rush of kids to greet me in the early morning (smelling horrendous but bringing such joy all at the same time). One more chaotic episode of feeding, bathing, and dressing 30 kids. One more day full of, well, full diapers ready to ...
Week 2
... fun anyway. And no, I do not wish to share this video with any of you haha. You’ll just have to come to Uganda to see it firsthand… Last week I asked you to pray for relationships to build here with the nannies and other volunteers. Well, ...
Busy Busy Busy
... many questions I have about this whole thing. We spent last night in a camp on a beautiful lake about 100kms south of Kampala, and this morning have been driving into Kampala, just arrvied about 5 minutes ago. We purchased the vouchers for our white ...
My Internet Woes
... nbsp;I figure I have 2 years to get to the point of not caring about my technology troubles. Internet here in Uganda is mainly through mobile phone networks. My internet connection is through Orange mobile 3G via a device called a ...
beginning work at Meeting Point
... we were perfectly safe - unlike our experience in LaPaz. Our driver Patrick recommended his friend James to be our driver for around Kampala so we used him to take us to and from the University. Judy had made contact with a literature professor who had ...
Back to my roots...
... in the incidents book that my 'WARRET' was stolen. You've got to love them My dad criticising my driving on the way back to Kampala REALLY did not help my mood! Either I wasn't driving fast enough or not overtaking that slow lorry in front of us on the ...
Rain
Woot Uganda!!!
... a hole about the size of a photograph, and eat pretty much anything they put infront of me! We went ot the capital city, Kampala, and played my favourite game, see how long it takes you to get from point a to point b in as little time as possible ...
Another missing entry
... answer to my question until the next morning, when we have breakfast in a cafe with the Noelina, the director of Meeting Point Kampala, where we will be volunteering. "Nothing that happened was my intention," she begins. It was God, who decided that I ...
Kampala Trip
Happy New Year to everyone!! I have just returned from my holidays in Kampala, Uganda (Kampala is the capital of Uganda). It was one awesome trip. I left for Kampala on Thursday December 22nd and returned on the morning of Wednesday January 3rd. The ...
Honky tonk hookers and conversation killers
... in the form of one of the more determined prostitutes that infest the vast majority of the local bars in Kampala (can't be avoided). I was sitting on a bench opposite the pool table with the afore mentioned particularly persistent prostitute ...
Moving up in the world!
... got home last night there was dinner with pudding and this morning I had the most sumptuous breakfast I've had since arriving in Uganda with proper coffee! There's a tv, DVDs (including High School Musical! Yeah baby!) and loads of books. I have to admit ...
hell's gate, white water, and violence in the city
... beers waiting at the top of the hill we scaled to reach the trucks. wow. most of the peace corps volunteers were going on to kampala, uganda's capital, for a few days. it was the end of the weekend, but i spoke to peter and decided that if i spent ...
Meetings meetings meetings!!
Ive had two important meetings in the last week 1. With the Ugandan Assoc for the Deaf 2. With the Parents ...
It has been a while
... Ok, Scott, how's this: What I did this past week: ~Bought new shoes. The third pair of shoes that I have purchased in Uganda and finally I have found a pair that doesn’t eat my feet! Great success! Plus they are shiny silver! The only bad thing, ...
Sipi Falls
Emily Ow's parents gave Tanzania the red light, so she was stuck in Kampala with me. We decided that we needed to get out of the city and distract ourselves, so I looked through my lonely planet and came up with a destination - Sipi Falls. I made ...