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Kabale is a small town between Mbarara and Kisoro, and it is near the southwest’s national parks and wildlife reserves, including Bwindi. We only drove through to the region’s star attraction, Lake Bunyonyi. As for Kabale itself, this lively market and university town...
We made another stop at the school in Katunguru, mainly because of the Czech flag on the school’s wall. We met the principal, who explained that some Czech people are helping the school, so they painted the flag on the wall to promote friendship between Uganda and the Czech Republic...
We had a terrible storm at night, and rainy weather continued today, so we were not sure if we should go on a game drive, but we risked it and jumped into the safari car (130 USD) and went to the Queen Elizabeth National Park (🎟️44 USD). It is often ranked highly as one of Uganda’s...
From the main road, we drove on gravel for around one hour through Queen Elizabeth National Park to the local community information center. We arrived late afternoon and paid for entrance to the lake area (🎟️36000 UGX, including a guide on a motorbike). Later, we used the place behind the...
On the way to Lake Katwe, we stopped at the new Equator Monument, designed by Eric Prince Ondia, who won the Joadah Innovation Challenge under the category ‘Best Equator Monument.’ The new monument is made of stainless steel and ‘elegantly showcases the globe with the equator line...
We stopped for lunch and some shopping in the provincial town of Kasese. It is one of the fastest-growing towns in Uganda and a stopover destination for tourists who flock west to explore the Queen Elizabeth National Park, hot springs, the Kazinga Channel, Kibale National Park, and access...