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You don’t need reminding what an awful time we’re all facing. Life is on lock-down and each day brings more bad news. For the moment, as we’re stuck at home trying to get to grips with ‘social distancing’, the world feels a smaller place. But the world is still out there, as big as it’s …

Kabale Backpackers closed

Fiona Coates writes: Kabale Backpackers in Kabale Uganda is now permanently closed.

COVID-19 self-quarantine in Uganda

Travellers to Uganda have nothing specific to fear in terms of COVID-19 at the time of writing as not a single case of the virus has been reported there. However, our understanding, subject to confirmation, is that in order to prevent the importation of the virus, travellers arriving from high risk 'Category 1' countries will …

Polish Catholic Church at Nyabyeya near Masindi

  Thanks to Charlotte Beauvoisin of Diary of a Muzungu for this report on a Catholic Church built by Polish refugees near Masindi in the 1940s. The small community of Nyabyeya was once home to a community of Poles who built a church that remains popular with the community to this day. Adjacent to Nyabyeya College …

Mount Elgon and Kibale Forest

Jan & Mark write: We are working our way through Uganda with the help of your guide book and loving it. Just thought you would like to know that the road from Kenya into Uganda from the Suam border crossing on Mount Elgon is currently horrendous. The Chinese are working in it but as a …

Bradt Uganda 9th edition

We are please to announce the new 9th edition of Bradt Uganda will be available to ship from the Bradt website on 5 December 2019. More than 600 pages long including a brand new colour wildlife section, the 9th edition of Bradt Uganda is the most detailed guidebook to the country ever published. It has been …

Climbing Soroti Rock

We, a group of 3, traveled to Uganda in August and had a wonderful stay there. We highly appreciated the detailed and much useful information you are giving in your guide (Uganda, edition 8). It was definitely our favorite guide! We have been to Soroti as well and took advantage of the view of Soroti …

Detailed August 2019 trip report

Carrie writes: I just finished an incredible month-long backpacking trip around Uganda. Your guide was invaluable for figuring out how to do things independently - thank you! Just have a few updates and report backs to share: - Bwindi: I tracked gorillas at Ruhija. As far as I could tell it’s virtually impossible to get …

Guesthouses at the Toro Crater Lakes

Note that Planet Ruigo, listed in the 8th edition (p394) has effectively closed. A reader also reports that Enfuzi Community Campsite (p394) appeared to be closed on recent inspection. Meanwhile The Frog at Kibale (p393) has reverted to its former name CVK Lakeside Resort; contact details are 0772 192709, cvklakesideresort@gmail.com; cvklakesideresort.com.

New book (plus downloadable app and maps) detailing Historical Sites and Buildings in Kampala, Jinja and Entebbe

Verity Ramsden writes: I have been working on a very exciting project with the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) and the EU, and the outputs were launched earlier in May 2019. These includes a beautiful coffee table book - 'Beyond the Reeds and Bricks - Historical Sites and Buildings in Kampala, Jinja and Entebbe', containing …