What drove us to Jinja was the promise for adventure. Victoria lake is considered by many as the source of the Nile and the area is known for its rough waters, ideal for white water rafting. [gallery royalslider=1 name="1" style="width:100%" type="rectangular"...
Kampala, the capital of Uganda is your typical sub-saharan capital. Unpaved roads - even in the very center of the town, tons of people, little stores and open markets, creative ways for public transportation, building anarchy and a city center with some high-rise...
The next day we had scheduled a visit to the forest, where the Batwa pygmies used to live. The Batwa people were pushed out of the forest when the gorilla tourism picked up. A hunter-gatherer tribe, they never learned the merits of agriculture or livestock breeding....
On the way to find the gorillas, we crossed a local village and a bunch of four kids playing. They enjoyed to have their pictures taken and were ecstatic to see them on the LCD of my camera. Torn clothes, no shoes, dirty but seemingly happy, it makes you wonder about...
The main reason why we chose to visit Uganda was not other than the famous mountain gorillas. The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park hosts one for the two populations of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). The other population lives within three national...
Our guide Enock, picked us up form the hotel in Entebbe at 8am. We drove form Entebbe to Kampala and then to Kibale forest. A long drive, but quite nice as we got the opportunity to see the countryside of Uganda. We arrived in the afternoon in Ndali Lodge, a very...