Country Info
- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
Uganda Slideshow
Uganda
Travel Blogs from Uganda
Thunderstorms
What a nice introduction to Uganda. Jose and I left Kenya for Uganda on what was Jose's first land crossing in Africa. We arrived in the town of Jinja in the early afternoon of the 7th. Jinja is pleasant little place. Instead of the dusty, ...
Early Life on an Overland Truck
Overland truck touring is unlike any other travel experience. An overland truck is essentially a moving van, with cut out windows, roll down tarps for window coverings and permanent benches against the walls with under-seat and under floor ...
Barrel of Monkeys
... the past few days, during which we have been hanging out on the rim of Nkuruba Lake, one of 82 crater lakes in Western Uganda. The campsite where we are staying helps to fund an adjacent orphanage and medical clinic. We have taken a couple of ...
The wonderful, the bad and the ugly.
My birthday was incredible. One I will never forget. On Fruday morning we woke at 3am and headed to kampala where we wee being collected at 630am to make the drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park for our weekend safari tour. At 10am we were still ...
a lot of walking!!
... ugandan history as we headed to the ugandan natural museum, where the main exhibition was on carbon footprint and climate change, though uganda per peroson roughly uses 0.7% tonnes of carbon a year the states uses 29% of tonnes a year per person they had ...
"I have my sunscreen but you refuse to get yours."
Says the very very very dark man to the very pasty tourists. And so was the start of Jinja. We drove all day to get there, set up tents in a drizzle, and were kept up all night by a very loud campsite bar. We were briefed on our first day about ...
Foedselsdagsrafting
I dag var det Maltes foedselsdag, og vi fejrede det med en raftingtur paa nilen. Sandra havde overtalt ejeren af vores hotel i Entebbe til at faa et dansk flag som hang i receptionen, som han selv havde faaet i gave af nogle danskere, saa dagen startede ...
last day in Jinja time to move on though!!!
hey last day in Jinja!! whooo shoppin buying souvenirs and t-shirts whihc i depseratley need!!!! this time after doing proper market shopping the clothes parts are like one massive huge chairty shop!!! it was amazin!!!! 3 new tops and some awesome PJ ...
still uganda leaving tomorrow
... which is not that fun for a week. tomorrow morning at dawn we are heading to Kigali, Rwanda. it is not too far from Uganda, about 8 hours drive and Rwanda is a famous Africa country so we really want to see it. tell u more about it when I get ...