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Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. Location. Located in Kampala, the capital along Kira Road (to Kamwokya) off Bombo Road. When to visit Throughout the year, however, Uganda usually receives a high number of visitors, including foreign tourists, during the December Christmas festive season.

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Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye

Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. Location. Located in Kampala, the capital along Kira Road (to Kamwokya) off Bombo Road.

When to visitThroughout the year, however, Uganda usually receives a high

number of visitors, including foreign tourists, during the December

Christmas festive season.

• Uganda is the Pearl of Africa, a country with fantastic natural scenery and a rich mosaic of tribes and cultures. Travelling through Uganda you will be captivated by its beauty, overwhelmed by the friendliness of its people and intrigued by all that Uganda has to offer

• Shopping entre; we have different shopping moles around the city and you can what you want at a near by shopping centre

Kampala city view Kampala city view

The taxi park, it may feel like mayhem but there is order in the madness.

Just enjoy the feeling of it all, shopping can be a lot of fun

The museum contains rich materials from Uganda and is a must to see

because they are attractive .

The Uganda Museum (founded in 1908) in Kampala has exhibits of traditional culture, archeology, history, science, and natural history. It regularly presents performances of traditional music.

Makerere University's main library in Kampala has a general collection, which is the largest in Uganda.

The most important specialized collections, all in Kampala, are found in the Albert Cook Library at Makerere Medical School (at Makerere University), the Institute of Teacher Education, the Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo (formerly Uganda Technical College), the Makerere Institute of Social Research, and the Cabinet Office.

A display of Uganda's cultural heritage where one can see ethnological and natural-historical exhibitions. It is a vivid reminder of the country's colourful past. One of its most interesting features is the collection of traditional musical instruments, which one is free to play

• Our Uganda is a main basket and a source of the major East Africa’s tourist attractions; It is described as the Pearl of Africa, with fantastic natural scenery and a rich mosaic of tribes and cultures.

• It’s on record the Tourists visiting Uganda are attracted by its beauty coupled with the friendliness of its people and the unique rich ecology supporting half of the world endangered species “the Mountain Gorillas” and closest like Human beings creature on earth “ the Chimpanzees living in the rainforests” coupled with a biodiversity of wildlife animal allover the open savannah grassland

• Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is one of the richest ecosystems in Africa, a result of its immense antiquity and an altitude span from 1,160 to 2,607m. The forest is home to 90 mammal species, including 11 primates, of which the black-and-white colubus, with its lovely flowing white tail, is prominent. Plant life is also diverse, and the forest birding ranks among the best in Uganda, with 23 highly localised Albertine Rift endemics present.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda)

• Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, located in south-western Uganda on the edge of the western Rift Valley, lies on the border with the DRC, adjacent to the Parc National des Virungas. It is one of the largest (331 sq. km) natural forests in East Africa and contains both montane and lowland forest. It supports a large number of plants and animals endemic to the region, but most notably half of the world's population of mountain gorillas. The more than 300 Mountain Gorillas, divided into a dozen groups, make up the largest surviving population. The other half is split between the DRC and Rwanda. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is one of the richest ecosystems in Africa, a result of its immense antiquity and an altitude span from 1,160 to 2,607m. The forest is home to 90 mammal species, including 11 primates, of which the black-and-white colubus, with its lovely flowing white tail, is prominent. Plant life is also diverse, and the forest birding ranks among the best in Uganda, with 23 highly localised Albertine Rift endemics present

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is one of the richest ecosystems in Africa, a result of its immense antiquity and an altitude span from 1,160 to 2,607m. The forest is home to

90 mammal species, including 11 primates, of which the black-and-white colubus, with its lovely flowing white tail, is prominent. Plant life is also diverse, and the forest birding ranks among the best in Uganda, with 23 highly localised Albertine Rift

endemics present.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is one of the richest ecosystems in Africa, a result of its immense antiquity and an altitude span

from 1,160 to 2,607m. The forest is home to 90 mammal species, including 11 primates, of which the black-and-white

colubus, with its lovely flowing white tail, is prominent. Plant life is also diverse, and the forest birding ranks among the best in

Uganda, with 23 highly localised Albertine Rift endemics present.

This is the Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four Kabakas (kings of Buganda) there are many kingdoms

rituals performed in this place

Tropical islands are in the range of - 1,000km

from the ocean

Uganda's Ssese Islands in Lake Victoria were all but inaccessible for more than a decade. Now a new ferry service is letting the first pioneering tourists discover their soft white sands, blue waters and lush forests. Buetiful animals and birds, giraffes

Giraffes

Zebra

Fishing Boat on Lake VictoriaThe only Bahai Temple in Kampala