Feb 16, 2017 Today was dedicated to site inspection and after breakfast, we left the Kampala Sheraton Hotel and visited the Munyoyo Commonwealth Resort and its sister facility, the Speke Resort & Conference Center. We spend quite some time exploring Speke Resort & Conference Centre and the Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort, and at some point I couldn’t tell any…
Feb 15, 2017 We left Jinja after lunch at the Jinja Nile Resort. On the way, we stopped over for some site inspections before we arrived Kampala. Two days away meant we got new rooms when we arrived back at Kampala Sheraton Hotel. Our host, the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) informed us that dinner was going…
February 14, 2017… Yesterday was a good day after all. The Birthday Surprise from the Uganda Tourism Board was totally awesome. If you don’t know what I’m talking about click here. Anyway, I got up early today, Valentine’s Day, but I was not in the mood to go anywhere. In any case, we’d been informed about…
February 13, 2017… After breakfast, we got into the buses provided by our host and left the Kampala Sheraton Hotel, weaving our way through the fabled capital city traffic as we headed towards Jinja. We had a stopover at the Mabira Forest, and soon everyone disembarked as got ready for some ziplining fun. There was…
February 12, 2017… We were up early again and out of Paraa safari Lodge. The others from Pakuba Safari Lodge came to meet us at the banks of the Nile, as we waited to cross the river for the last time – until we come around this way again. The moon was still visible in…
Back in 1908, a young Winston Churchill dubbed Uganda as the Pearl of Africa in his book My African Journey, but at some point in the nation’s existence it seemed that very pearl was being trampled underfoot during the tyranny of Idi Amin and the wars that ensued afterwards. However, those days are in the distant past now…
