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Jinja Slideshow
Jinja
Travel Blogs from Jinja, Uganda
Jinja biscuits
... and showed us around. They had set up a family planning clinic to help with the AIDS epidemic. Aaron had gotten chatting to a guy from Uganda who was also volunteering - Tony. He was the eldest of 8 - 3 brothers and 4 sisters. He was waiting for his exam ...
Source of the Nile
... touts put us on the one that didn't go first. When we got to the minibus rank in Kampala we got onto a nearly full bus to Jinja which was smart since people were trying to get us into empty ones that would wait for a long time - once bitten and all that ...
The Haven is Heaven
We loved staying at The Haven during our Horse Riding Safari experience that we decided to go back for a few more nights. Amazing setting overlooking the river, beautiful food and friendly ...
Horse Riding Safari
Brilliant two day Horse Riding Safari through villages and forest near the Nile in lush Uganda. ...
The source of the River Nile
A great little town by the Source of The River Nile. A highlight of staying here was white-water kayaking down the river in double kayaks. We stayed here for a few days to enjoy the magnificent river and Lake Victoria. ...
Welcome to Iganga, Graduate.
Okubaki? I am safe and sound in my home of Iganga! I have officially have pink eye in both eyes and a cough that could wake the dead. Yesterday, I slept 18 hours straight and the stumbled to MCH and am on some antibiotics; already I am feeling ...
Mzungus Anonymous
... malaria. Anyways, back to our time in Jinja and Bujagali Falls. On Thursday June 23rd we headed out to Jinja, Uganda for a few days of relaxation followed by a week and a half at a small clinic located 8km up the Nile River at Bujagali ...
Awesome Time!!!
Fast forward to the next day when I woke up at 9am in a blistering hot tent and a wicked hangover. Luckily I didn't sleep any later than that because I was going whitewater rafting at 9:30 and didn’t want to miss that. There were six of us ...
Rafting in a morphsuit, Bamford's visit and more!
... family or friends for the end of term holidays, which are just over a month long here! Boarding schools are fairly standard in Uganda so many children stay at the school, it just happens to be that Rock Children's Family (RCF) fortunate enough to be able ...
Rafting on the Nile
Awoke with hopes of hitting the rapids in the rafts today and thankfully the bus hadn't broken down/or been caught in traffic. So after a measly breakfast and briefing we hit the water just above the falls. A quick induction in ducking, paddling, jumping ...
Boat Ride on Lake Victoria to Chimp Sanctuary
... quickly...my towel was still wet. We had to go through Entebbe and Kampala again with all the horrible traffic before getting to Jinja...former source of the Nile. Oh, there was a monitor lizard and otter on the island that some people saw. It was ...
Getting wet in Jinja
We pulled into Jinja, the adventure capital of Uganda, possibly Africa. The nile river campsite where we were to spend the next 3 days has a reputation as party central and with half litre beers at the bar for $1.75 I can see why. The bar over ...
The Equator is a line of yellow paint. FACT.
Today we had a mission to pick up a new passenger, get a few days food shopping done and pass the Equator. The first thing that struck me about Kampala was how much more developed it was than anywhere I had seen since Nairobi. The supermarket was a real ...
Nile Special
So we thought we needed some r and r so we decided that we could combine a "business trip" to Jinga with a weekend away doing white river rafting. We caught a matatu with Charles, the housekeeper, and headed to an agriculture fair in Jinga. We ...
Rafting on the source of the nile
During my first day in Uganda I went white water rafting in Jinja with Nile River Explorers on which is the source and start of the Nile. The drive took an hour from Kampala and when there we had a debrief and paid our $125 for the day rafting. After ...
Jinja Market and Soft Power Education Project
Yesterday we crossed the border from Kenya into Jinja Uganda. The process for us to get into Uganda was not to bad took us around 40 minutes to get into the country. There was an incredible line of semi-trailers that apparently can sit in line up to 3 ...
Day 2 in Jinja
... Africa and travelling through Libya (crossing the desert on their own!), Egypt, Jordan, Ethiopia and then into Kenya and up to Uganda. They then planned to head south with their final destination being back home in South Africa by about March, an amazing ...
white water rafting
We headed off to Jinja in Uganda to do a little grade 5 white water rafting. Very scary, though to tell the truth the roads and matatus in Kenya are probably more ...
Still Training
... to the training venue. There was a "disco" (basically a club party) in the evening, so we went to our first party in Uganda and a had a lot of fun, despite the short list of songs that were played over and over again. The songs ranged from Mary Lennox ...
Party Party Party!!! (The bush tucker challenge)
Hello! The kids are leaving for home tomorrow. Ive hastly put together a party, thanks to you!, in the form of sweeties (dentists love me!!), small gifts for each child, a chicken feast, and sodas. Magadelene and Ester had to walk ...
Raftinggg
... the river. We sit in the bar enjoying the view and a few Nile Special beers. We have upgraded to a dorm tonight as rain in Uganda is meant to be common. Very glad we upgraded after the 3am downpour which woke us all up. Next morning in Jinja we get up ...
Rafting
Jinja was a pretty decent location. Went rafting again but for the most part I was feeling pretty lazy; went for a few swims in the Nile but otherwise fairly inactive. On the first afternoon there we had a small storm come through and send our tents of ...
First Impressions: Days 1 through 4
... 't know when I will be at a computer again. So, Day 1 was spent in the plane. Check. Day 2, I arrived at the Entebbe, Uganda airport where I met Fareda, the wife of Michael, my program coordinator. I then took my first ever ''matatu'' ride- these are the ...
Uganda, the adrenaline bit!
Having seen the gorillas, we headed back to Uganda via the Cyanike border. The border road was windy but the screnery was majestic. The photos don't do it justice but it was beautiful. Being Irish, I didn't have to pay any visa fees at the border, ...
Children, Wasps and Black Mambas!
... day later the trouble flared up in Kenya and I would have been trapped in Nairobi during the scenes of violence there. Arriving in Uganda was an odd experience. I had arranged a pick up with the charity I was going over to work for. I arrived in ...
Another Week bites the dust!
It was back to Uganda for another 7 nights after Rwanda. We stayed in a place called Kibali for 1 night which was more or less just camping outside the hotel grounds. Not much to see and do here so had a punch (drink not fight) party with the ...
