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.
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After many weeks of taking in the peaceful sanctuary of Lake Bunyonyi it was time to leave the nest… Just for a week though. I realised that I was getting very settled in with the region I’d been living in, and that I should experience more of Uganda. Katarina, my co-volunteer from Austria, was planning…
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