ABOUT UGANDA

Useful Topics

• Kampala City
• Entebbe
• Jinja,The Source of the Nile
• Jinja,White Water Rafting
• National Parks
• Pygymies
• Diplomatic missions
• Rwenzori Trekking

Uganda is all around country of new areas of  interest such as people , mountain  gorillas and ecotourism,white    water rafting  sport fishing than have put  Uganda back on the  East African tourist circuit. The Nile,  a source of  wonder is an  insipiration for  thousands of  years, cuts a cross and  often turbulent dividing south  to north of the country.

The Nile flows from  Lake Victoria at what was  Rippon  Falls now submerged and into  Lake Kyoga. Still the Victoria Nile, it cuts with placid rapid passage west across karuna Falls and  through the narrow  pillars   of  Murchison   Falls towards Lake Albert. Finally the  Albert  Nile meanders along   a slow, wide corridor into southern sudan. To the  far  west  of Uganda, on the  Zaire border, the   snow  covered Rwenzori Mountains ( or mountains of the  moon Ptolemy called them) rise into  almost  permanent equatorial mists. The mountain slopes have  their  own  strange successive worlds of vegetation, each  with  its  own characteristic flora. In the  extreme south-west are  the   mufumbiro volcanoes , a chain of  imposing cones that  rise out  of  the lava  plain of  the  western rift . The tropical hardwood  rainforests  of  western Uganda  such  as  Maramagambo, Budongo, and
B windi  evoke adventure and  wonder. 

The presence of the  international airport at  Entebbe will ensure its countiued restoration.
Of the other towns around  the country, jinja, at the source of the Nile,  Mbarara, on the road west Fort Portal, at the foot of the Rwenzori, and  Mbale  on the  eastern border are  all  howling promising signs of economic recovery. The  apparent slow development and poverty  of areas outside kampala is combined results of  cautious investment and  thery recent  restoration of  country  wide infrastructure.

Tourism and  increased commercial  agriculture will  gradually redress the  balance, as they  have  elsewhere in Africa. Uganda is rich with  culture and artistic talent, Ugandans  are lively actors and public  speakers . Hardly a night passes  with out  the  rhythmic sounds of  traditional dancing or , in  kampala , modern disco music. The overriding impression of Uganda is of its  happy people. Hardship and  war  are  not  forgotten, its now country of new blood who have grown up without seeing wars and are enjoying the country rythms during the peaceful almost 3 dacades of Museveni's rule.