The Uganda Railway Museum, the first of its kind in Uganda and the second in East Africa, opened 16 March, 2022 in a project put together by the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) in partnership with the Uganda Railways Corporation (URC), and with support of the European Union and SOGEA-SATOM. Located along the Jinja-Iganga Highway […]
UGANDA JUNGLE LODGES, FIRST SUSTAINABLE TOURIST ACCOMMODATION IN UGANDA by TourCert Uganda Jungle Lodges started in 2011 with two accommodation facility Ishasha Jungle Lodge and Bugoma Jungle Lodge, with a clear number of objectives: build tourist Eco-lodges where the accommodation is actually the meaning for a full experience of nature; identify locations with great potential, […]
Effective this Friday 22 February 2022, MV Kalangala the only public sailing vessel, plying the Entebbe-Kalangala Ssese route, will temporarily suspend operations to undergo annual mandatory docking inspection. According to Mr Sadala Musoke, the chief executive officer, Nation Oil Distributors Ltd (NODL), a firm managing the MV Kalangala vessel, when MV Kalangala ferry sails to […]
Uganda government has suspended mandatory COVID-19 testing on arrival at entry ports, in line with East African Community (EAC) member states. Individuals transiting through Entebbe International Airport, Uganda’s major international airport and all ports of entry in line with the position taken by the East Africa Community are no longer required to be tested. This […]
Uganda Bikers are joining the 2022 Africa UBUNTU Bikers Run this Sunday, January 30, 2022. The bikers from Uganda will join the rest of Africa’s bikers in a solidarity breakfast ride dubbed “2022 Africa UBUNTU Bikers Run – Riding in Unity.” Organized by the Uganda Bikers Association (UBA) in collaboration with Central Riders (CRA), Ring […]
The park authorities appealed to the public, especially those transiting through protected areas to take precaution and avoid putting themselves in harm’s way. On 25 January, 2021, a traveler was trampled to death by an elephant at Uganda‘s Murchison Falls National Park, while passing through the park to Arua town in West Nile. A statement […]
The government of Rwanda has announced the reopening of the Gatuna/Katuna border after nearly three years of closure. On February 28, 2019, Rwanda closed its border with Uganda at Gatuna. Katuna is a town in Kabale District of Uganda at the border with Rwanda. In Kinyarwanda language the town is called Gatuna. Katuna is located […]
Uganda President H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has made good on his new year speech in which he issued a directive to fully reopen the economy 2 weeks after schools reopened on January 10, 2022. The reopening was staggered starting with the education sector, which had earned the country the longest lockdown in the world after […]
Bar Aviation Uganda, a Uganda based Aviation Company offering daily domestic scheduled flights and private charters, announced will launch daily scheduled flights to Uganda safari parks and tourist attractions from 01 February 2022. The launch of daily, scheduled domestic flights to numerous National Park locations in Uganda and three weekly flights to Arua City, north […]
MV Kalangala ferry revise schedule to ease travel and also prevent spread of COVID-19 during the festive season with new ferry timetable between 22nd – 28th December 2021 and 29th December to 02nd January 2021. Just like accommodation providers in the floating Ssese Islands are limiting guest numbers and meeting attendee numbers, MV Kalangala vessel […]
