Country Info
- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
Kampala Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kampala, Uganda
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 ...
Cycling with Zebras and Grade 5 Rapids
... called "Silverback" we flipped & I ended up about 100 meters down the Nile from the place we flipped. It was fun, but might be my last rafting trip for a while! After the ride we had a BBQ and the local "Nile Special" brewed at the dam in Jinja, ...
Gorillas and engagement
Another long bus ride took us from Nairobi, Kenya to Kampala, Uganda. We spent 13 hours sitting on yet another bus and stayed awake the entire time to watch the spectacular African scenes pass by our window. Our plans for Uganda were to travel ...
Handel Hid the Body
... During college I was working 2 jobs part-time and got my degrees in 3 and a half years. The 6 months before coming to Uganda, I was volunteering about 15 hours a week, working full time and auditing a class. Now I'm teaching 5 classes literacy, 8 classes ...
Ten, ten, two thousand ten... Awesome!
... are with an Ugandan male, they like to see how fast you can walk (or at least if you are female). So before coming to Uganda I strongly recommend hiking in the mountains as fast as you can, trust me. Being from Colorado, I grew up hiking in the mountains, ...
Uganda
... , das Essen, die Unterkünfte und das Klima... Zu Freundlichkeit der Menschen gesellt sich ihre Trägheit. Bereits nach einem Tag Kampala fiel uns auf, wie unglaublich langsam die Menschen hier alltägliche Arbeiten wie kochen, putzen, etc. erledigen. Die ...
Water and the Longest Journey
... that far? Uphill? It is something one has to see to understand and believe is really happening. Children all over Uganda do this daily. I do not have pictures of some of the worst of what I have seen because I am passing these kids ...
Wabaam!
So on Sunday I was thinking that in a couple days I would be writing to you about my magnificent adventure Kim and I went on on Monday that involved helmets and the Nile River. But of course, everything changes so fast here, and my plans changed also. We ...
"Yes Lord"
I came across this article the other day and found it both challenging and encouraging, so I thought I would share it: "I had a nice house: the wide front porch my wife always hoped for, a great backyard the kids could frolic in, a garde, a master suite ...
UGANDA-PEARL OF AFRICA
... along with our Ugandan guide, Lydia, and our driver, Moshe. In our extended Toyota Landcruiser we drove to northern Uganda to Murchison Falls National Park. We were housed in comfortable bandas(tourist cottages). We took a boat trip up ...
I'm A Teacher
... pink dresses. When she was still in diapers her mother abandoned her in a bar where she was left to walk the streets of Kampala afraid, dirty and alone. It was just after that that Carli and Robert found her and took her in. Nursued her back to health ...
Kampala
Finally back in Africa. After being pampered for a month in Europe it's nice to be back to the thrill and pace of Africa. Kampala is my first destination for "Africa: Round 2". I'm using the city as a base for trips around the country. There's actually ...
Sending Love Your Way Everyday!
... point… I’m not exactly sure what the thought process behind that maneuver was, but oh boy, people were not happy. So, Kampala is still banned and I haven’t been able to check my mail for 2 almost 3 weeks, but I’m going on Monday, ...
Ups and Downs, Somehow
... up on how they are improving and honing their teaching skills in the direction that the Ministry of Education and Sports of Uganda has requested. I think that doing this work in the most sustainable thing that I’ve been able to accomplish thus far ...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
... all the way from the U.S. to Uganda! __________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ There have ...