Rainer Holst of the Haven in Jinja has sent us the following updates: The major updates are of the midrange banda (not en-suite) to luxury banda now en-suite. we just added bathrooms to them. We also have now 2 family bungalows. All rooms have river view and by now we have 10 rooms in total and [...]
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Hairy Lemon Island, Jinja, Uganda is now under new management and the contact details are as below hairylemonuganda@gmail.com www.hairylemonuganda.com +256 752828338
Ann Chawner writes: “Hi! I would like to tell you about a great opportunity at Kyabirwa which is only a mile away from the wonderful Bujagali Falls and 3 miles from Jinja town. There is a low cost volunteer project which was started by one of the teachers at Kyabirwa Primary School to help develop [...]
Jinja’s Palm Tree Guesthouse has reopened as Surjio’s Guesthouse. The original rooms in the main house have been extended by new annexes in the pretty garden. US$90 dbl B&B Andrew Roberts
My name is Christopher Bodimeade and I am the project area manager of the Busoga Trust Jinja, Uganda. I would like to draw your attention to our guesthouse in Jinja and hopefully you may like to include it in your forthcoming Uganda/East Africa publications or on your website. The Busoga Trust Guesthouse is run as [...]
Kingfisher Safaris Resort is fine, although the reception staff had certain problems. In particular they had quoted a price which proved to be for Ugandan residents (so the price became appreciably higher – we paid in USD – 104.50 USD per night for a single person). Also, they had explained that they were full, so [...]
Jinja. We liked Jinja very much. The suburban surrounds with lots of gardens and greenery, the old fashioned street with friendly people and the best iced coffee of our trip at the Source café. They also built a brand new silencer for our Rav 4 in 4 hours (or was it lifted from someone else’s [...]
I just returned from volunteering in Mbale (half a year) and would like to share my experience: I stayed in St. Andrew’s Community Centre whose services I can recommend wholeheartedly. For the swimming pool I would go to Mount Elgon Hotel which in my opinion is a much nicer place than Mbale Resort. The food [...]
The new Griffin Falls Campsite in Mabira Forest is a community-based ecotourism center 10kms outside of Lugazi, off the Jinja Road. I have been curious about it for months, and finally visited it today. Overall, I would say it has a lot of potential, but still has some work to do. Getting There: First of [...]
