Country Info
- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
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Uganda
Travel Blogs from Uganda
What a difference these guys make!
Another week over and a whole host of experiences later, and here I am with you again. As you know, I was due to go to a wedding reception on Saturday and I am so delighted and honoured to have been there. Tonny and I meet up with Spe, Sharon and Moses ...
Birthday party
... headed to be pampered in a friend in Kampala's home That night I had a birthday party. Considering I only know a few people in Uganda, the fact that i had a party of 11 is a miracle. Of course because of african time most people came 4-5 hours late but ...
my job
so i have just realize that i never explained what i do to my readers on this blog . so for february, i was working at a school organizing a microfinance program. i worked with the coordinator of the program to organize the current documentation as well ...
Everytime it rains here there is hail
Rain here is so strange because it can be raining one place, but 30 ft away it is not raining. Plus it never rains normally here. It is either hailing with lightening and thunder or sunny. There is no in between. Today, i had the pleasure of being caught ...
Uganda Unveiled !
... This was always going to be one of the longest days in East Africa for us. We were heading to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Uganda is so green, it really caught us by surprise. There are hills everywhere, and the people seem to harvest crops on every ...
Give a man a fish
... their former glory. Since the glory days of being the first missionary flagship in the East, it has suffered somewhat. Uganda's turbulent history has caused many traders to desert shops and communities to be dispersed. The landscape is generally flat, ...
Bupoto Clinic
Today, I visited the Bupoto clinic and I really like it. It is remote but very beautiful there. The girl who was working there is also great. She has done very cool work and she has accomplished a lot in her time there. I now know what it is like to ride ...
Matatu Chaos and Island Serenity
... also managed to sleep through most of the journey!). Taking Matt's advice (and his sister Lauren's, who had also been to Uganda), we negotiated our way to the front seat (and by negotiated, I mean basically sulked and refused entry until they gave ...
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 ...
He guided me to Entebbe...
... got that long, but thought I'd just mention that I've been to Swazi and now sit happily in an Internet Cafe in Entebbe, Uganda. It's gonna be quite a busy schedule over the next couple of weeks. We're going over the the west where my Aunt Florence has ...
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. ...
Queen Elizabeth National Park, Ishasha, Uganda (Da
Queen Elizabeth National Park, Ishasha, Uganda (Day 2) Thursday June 12th, 2008. Queen Elizabeth National Park, Ishasha, Uganda After passing out after dinner at about 9pm the night before we both wake fresh and ready for more action. Rina was a ...
Up the Nile
... 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 shortly after leaving ...
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
Hello to everyone, It has been a long time since my last entry, and I have not been on the internet since we left Mbarara....god only knows how long ago that was, I have lost track of time and place. Since leaving Mbarara we have been to a resort camp ...
Kisoro....visiting with the kids
Yay..have been able to add photos to my previous entry about the gorilla trek, check them out! We got back from our gorilla trek around 1:00 PM and packed up camp, it was time to head to Kisoro. The drive to Kisoro was beautiful with amazing views of ...
Ngamba Island, Day 2: Walking with Chimpanzees
Before I put type up my journal entry, I would like to make something very clear - what I talk about in this entry is NOT normal, and could only be done under very special circumstances. Chimpanzees do NOT make good pets, and can be extremely dangerous ...
On the Rocks!
Hello All! School started back today... I had so much fun with the children. We only had 7 today, pretty normal.. takes a while for information to filter back to the villages that school has started again. They were as delighted to see me as i was ...
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
... until age 16 when his family had to leave "in the time of trouble." He now lives in England and came back to Uganda to reclaim his father's property - which is the apartment complex and he built these new apartments down the street. Sunday July 29, ...
The Muzungu Arrives
Helloooo everyone! I am writing this from an internet cafe in Jinja, the second largest city in Uganda which is about 20 minutes by taxi from where I am staying, Kyabirwa. I think it;s costing me 1000 shillings an hour (about 40p) so I'll have ...
Back to my roots...
... fast enough or not overtaking that slow lorry in front of us on the left like the other cars were doing - illegally. Driving in Uganda is CRAZY! You have to contend with all the traffic - mopeds, people carriers, trucks,trailers, cyclists, goats, cows, ...
Winding Down
So I have made the final decision to do an overland trip from Nairobi to Cape Town. This means I am leaving New Hope on August 2. Sarah and I have started to transition the micro-credit program maintenance to a local staff. We have finally printed out a ...
Big night, equally big head!
... relaxed! What a laugh! I hope these two hang around a while longer. They've been travelling independently from Jo'burg up to Uganda - impressive or what! So needless to say today I'm a little foggy! Well this week has been a busy one but not the ...
"Concentrate on Uganda"
... a few days later after he had had too close an encounter with a lion…..hmmm. After the straightforward border crossing into Uganda we popped into Kampala - but just for a supermarket stop and a coffee so didn’t get much chance to look around. ...
The Nile
... camps, and another weekend is man camp i think. man camp is where im basically dropped into the jungle with a machete and a bottle of water for 4 days. however more on that later. uganda is beautiful, as are the people. i miss you all!!!!! ~Love, Jesse ...
Strange Food
... was fried locust-like bugs that people had picked from outside and fried . Everyone started eating them as if it was a normal meal in Uganda . Then they offered some to me. I just kind of looked at them for a while then I was given a handful. I ate ...