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- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
Kampala Slideshow
Kampala
Travel Blogs from Kampala, Uganda
Touch down uganda
... signaling to the crowd exactly which sign/person we belonged to, but we eventually figured it out. We then drove 1hr from Entebbe to Kampala. Yikes, I have to cut this short b/c we are going apartment shopping. Ttyl, ...
Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Well, we're back in Kampala for a day in the city to catch-up on e-mails, eat at restaurants, shop, and possibly catch a movie (I'm hoping to see Spiderman 2 today). After the gorilla trek, we re-entered Uganda & stopped for camping & a pig roast at ...
Last Entry, First one in a year
... ’t start on time. You know all the words of all the songs that you loaded onto your iPod before you came to Uganda. You can pinpoint the white anti-patriot, the college student, and the short term religious volunteer with ease. You shrink away from ...
The Sudanese Bus
i learned a lesson. Never take the Sudanese buses from Gulu to Kampala. So a friend and I boarded a bus and sat down like normal and our Acholi guide told us goodbye. As soon as our guide left all these Sudanaese men came over and started screaming for us ...
first attack of homesickness
... and then. The biggest life lesson was going into Kirinya, just past Bweyogeyere, well outside of the comforting potholed roads of Kampala. I still have to digest that a bit before I write anything (Rare Occasion, Take Note.) Going to Kidepo out in ...
Life
... and threatened Robert with this that and the otehr thing. It was ridiculous. No one was wearing seatbelts. NO ONE wears seatbelts in Uganda. Eventually she slid a book into the car and told Robert to pay her money. We did, then wrote down her number to ...
Sailing
... that will take me to N. Uganda/S. Sudan where there is much need. The International Film Festival has been here in Kampala. I went to see a few films. One was Motorcycle Diaries with my friend Jennifer from Ireland and Lindsey, my neighbor. It was ...
My Musical Debut
... I absolutely hate leading anything and the idea of doing it myself was really daunting! The only flaw in my plan was that in Uganda, the pass the buck mentality seems to equate to pass the buck to the muzungu, which I suppose was me! I procrastinated ...
Kampala
Uganda's Flag (No, that's no rooster.)
Written by Erica Uganda's Flag *Adopted: October 9, 1962, the day Uganda gained independence from Britain *Designed by Uganda’s minister of justice at the time, Mr. Grace Ibingra. *6 horizontal bands with symbolic colors: o black ...
The Not Exactly Perfect Side of Our Home
I had heard about diplomats living great lifestyles overseas in gorgeous homes. I also heard that as a diplomat you live in homes nicer than you could afford in the U.S. This may be true in some places and for some people. I want to show the ...
Day 25
... we wait for a Moda Moda to drive by. A moda moda is a motorcycle taxi, which is the only way to travel in Kampala because of the massive traffic jams. We ask him to take us to the UWA, which is between the British Consulate and the Uganda ...
Uganda - the pearl of Africa
... OK. And here I am. Uganda is full of colour, from the red earth to the green of the Matake (plantain) plants, and around Kampala the landscape has a great skyline, with lots of hills and red roofs standing out amongst the lush greenery. But, most of all, ...
Namangoona & Kampala
We are currently sitting in an internet cafe in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. It has been an exciting few days settling into life in Uganda. The actual village where we are staying with Gichuru and Eunice Jeremy is Namangoona. It is a ...
Holy Smokes I Finally Made It!
Hey folks!!! Well I'm alive and well in Uganda. The flights here were super long and the 7 and a half hour lay over in Heathrow Airport was magical but I made it....and what I place I arrived in. I step off the plane and get hit with the humidity of the ...
Going Nowhere Fast
... I took away was that our chance for a fatal traffic accident was way down. Click here to read an article about Kampala's traffic problems. When I first got here I wasn't sure if the boda bodas "motor bike taxis" were really as dangerous as I had ...
Bathroom decorating....
Hello Again... Sorry for the delay but i have finally struggled with illness :( A week in bed (by which I mean the bathroom)..a trip to the doctors..some lovely pills and I am on the road to recovery! Whoo hoo! No need to go into any ...
from dust till dawn
... . Half an hour later my shoe was fixed and ready to walk again. Or break. ...was good to get out of Kampala for the weekend, and see some of the Uganda I came to see. On Wednesday we are due to leave for Kidepo, on the Ugandan/Sudan borders, accessible ...
Carried off by a silverback
Hello again I'm still alive and staying in a hostel just outside kampala, with a lovely plunge pool where i can watch vervet monkeys play in the garden while i dip my feet into the cool waters while sipping a gin and tonic - i know, i know it's a tough ...
Safe and Silence
... : I’m lonely. I actually don’t think I have ever felt this alone in my adult life. Seriously! When I first came to Uganda everything was new, so I didn’t have time to focus on my alone-ness, but this time I’m used to everything, so ...
Our First Night
There are some great perks when traveling with the State Department. One of them is that newcomers are assigned a host family. The host family is a contact for questions before moving. Once you are at your new post the host ...
A quick one
I have one minute on the internet. 1) Went to a jail the other day. it was for juvenille deliquents. One girl we talked to was in jail for murder. She was working as a house girl and her boss beat her and sexually abused her beginning at age 9. She cut ...
Road trip to Kenya Part 3
... Kampala on a bus which was luxuriously empty enough for me to have two entire seats to myself. I learned that instead of leaving Kampala at 1:00 AM Tuesday morning with Melli, Jane and the girls as we had planned, our trip would be postponed by a ...
The Not So Housekeeper & Life Lessons
... ? I thought I would just list the reasons and let that speak for itself. Reasons Not to Have a Housekeeper (at least not in Kampala): -If you give your housekeeper a place on your property to live rent free, she just may ask to have her child live ...
Does my bum look 'small' in this....country?
... for a company called Soft Power Education. We loved it and met loads of children, walked through villages and really felt part of Uganda. Kampala The capital of Uganda. A much safer place than Nairobi of course and we managed to organise all that ...
Negotiating it's a religious thing
... you there are some areas that are down right seedy but it seems pretty safe. There are a lot of armed policemen in Kampala and although there are exceptions the biggest worry is more pickpocketing than armed robbery. So now I'm off to try to organize ...
Everyone in Baltimore is Connected
... but you have to have like 10 years of experience to get them. 1 week down, 9 years and 53 weeks to go!!! I love Kampala but I must admit since the bombings it makes me a lot more nervous which ruins my relaxation. I also think i appreciated it less ...