Tag: Kampala /Uganda/
altitude: 1,190 m/ 3,900 ft
estimated population: 1,600,000
The city also known as crazy crazy Kampala is the party central of East Africa. An urban sprawl touching Lake Victoria, Uganda’s capital is a bustling, freedom-loving place. Be it a weekend, a holiday or the middle of the night, enterprising Kampalans are ready to feed your stomach with cheap roadside food and your soul with bumping Afrobeat. Mushrooming shopping centres and second-hand markets are two dimensions of a place that sells anything from anywhere, at any price.
But not so far from the organised chaos of the Old Taxi Park — an actual attraction — there is serenity in Kampala’s green areas and religious sites. The only Baha’i temple in Africa, the Kampala Central Mosque and the Makerere University campus are three sites you should definitely consider visiting.
Uganda’s entry into the Gorilla Highlands region, Entebbe International Airport, lies 40km/26mi from Kampala.
Our Stories:
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Kampala, Here I Come!
After my first month of exotic but basic living on the shores of Lake Bunyonyi I was ready for a deeper dive into Ugandan life. I’d occasionally visited the nearby town of Kabale for my supermarket needs or a change of environment, but I wanted to explore a bit. As someone who is used to…
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After the Bootcamp: How to Make This Really Big?
This is the grand vision of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative growing into the Gorilla Highlands Society (GHS).
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Pocket Guide Nightmare is Over
Even only one out of thousands of readers deciding to spend a night would mean that the investment has paid off.
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Let’s Be Fair: Kampala versus Kigali
It’s an undisputable fact that Kigali and Kampala are hard to compare.
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Get Your Copy of the New Gorilla Highlands Pocket Guide
Will this be enough to meet the demand? Let’s hope so!
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Blasio’s Flower
I don’t enjoy weddings. They take too much time and they are almost the same, wherever you go in Uganda. But when Blasio, Edirisa’s co-director, asked me to come to his first-born’s kwanjula, I felt I couldn’t say no. Also known as the introduction, this is the central part of the traditional wedding procedures. Busy…
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Difficult Ugandan
Enya’s experience with the police made me think… Why do I behave like that really? 1. Because I feel Ugandan. When you are just a visitor, you tend to keep your head down and let locals do their things the local way. This is my country and I want it to be a great country.…
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Policemen Gone Crazy
Suprise surprise, here I am again with my blog, the extremely fabulous, pretty, beautiful, clever and smart Enyaaaaaaaaaaaa! Today I am writing about something different, instead of my holidays on Lake Bunyonyi I am gonna report about my life in Kampala (and report some policemen too). My dad has come to visit, after two long months.…
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China, the Superpower We Need on Our Side
“So you would want to translate it into Chinese?” he wanted to understand our plans.
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