Uganda

Uganda – a summary

Some infos from Uganda for our fellow travellers: Border:we came from Rwanda, over the small border at Cyanika, where they asked explicitly about our drone. We didn’t want to lie into their faces and confessed that we have one. In the end, we had to leave it at the border. There was some discussion if …

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Kazinga Channel

Inside Queen Elizabeth NP, we did a boat trip with the local community, which are mostly fishing at Kazinga channel but also provide boats for tourists, cheaper than the national park. We were looking for birds on this trips, as hippos are not so exciting any more, and for elephants it was too early in …

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Queen Elizabeth National Park

In the west of Uganda lies the Queen Elizabeth NP, named after Queen Elizabeth II after her visit to the park. It stretches along Lake Edward and Lake George, which are connected by the Kazinga Channel, a natural waterway. We had been in this area before, but hadn’t visited the park, instead used the free roads …

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Ugandan Primary School

Beside the hospital and the special school for disabled children, we also had the chance to visit the primary school, which is also run by the missionary sisters. Children up to 13 years old are educated here. All the classes are overfilled with pupils. The younger ones have no furniture in their class room and …

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Ekeunos-Rise Up Trusanne School

We were invited to a missionary station, which includes a school for disabled children, something which is very rare in Uganda. We learned, that mentally disabled children are normally hidden away at home because the family is ashamed of them. Truus from the Netherlands founded this school in 2017, when she realised, how many children …

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The St. Clare Missionary

We were stopped by an ambulance car and Alfred from Germany, who runs the St. Claire Missionary in a remote area of Uganda, invited us to visit them. As we had time, we drove into the north over basic gravel roads until we reached Orungo and the missionary in the middle of nowhere. Alfred and …

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Nyero Rock Art

On our way to the north, we reached an important site of rock paintings in Uganda near Kumi. Nyero rock paintings are of the Late Stone Age hunter-gatherer culture. This art is generally attributed to Batwa hunter-gatherers who are of Pygmy origin which once lived in the general area of these rock art sites, before they were cast out by other …

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Home-made coffee

At the Sipi Falls, we had the chance to go on a coffee tour to a local farm, a very different experience to the well organised Lunji coffee farm we had visited in Mbeya, Tansania. Here we could make more or less our own coffee by hand, starting with planting a little seedling and then …

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