Uganda

Uganda is located in East Africa neighboring Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Uganda covers 241,000 square kilometers in terms of area and fresh water bodies cover eighteen percent of the total area.  Uganda is comprised of people from different tribes located in different parts around the country. This illustrates the diversity of culture, lifestyles, traditions and languages. The largest cultural ethnic group is the Buganda kingdom who is led by a king called “Kabaka” in the Luganda local language. The Baganda are based in central Uganda. Additional Ethnic groups include the Busoga Kingdom neighboring Buganda, Toro Kingdom, Acholi, Iteso, Banyankole, Iteso, Langi, Alur and many others.

The climate of Uganda is immensely equatorial but due to the difference in altitude and changing climate due certain factors, the climate in Uganda tends to differ. Uganda has both wet and warm seasons. In the past years, warm seasons would happen during December to February, well as the wet seasons happened in March to June and September to December but climate of recent has been changing during seasons. Ugandan temperatures average 30 degrees in the dry season and 22 degrees in the rainy seasons.

Uganda lies on a plateau thousands of meters above sea level with the central area lying low occupied by the biggest lake in East Africa called Lake Victoria from which originates the great River Nile. These water bodies are very resourceful to the people of Uganda with a number of economic activities like agriculture, tourism, fishing and power generation taking place here.

The Eastern and Nothern parts of the country are covered by savannah grasslands and mainly known for agriculture and cattle rearing. Eastern Uganda includes districts like Mbale, Busia, Tororo, Sironko, Kapchorwa, Bulambuli. These districts are mountainous. Mountain Elgon is found in Eastern Uganda. Western Uganda is a beautiful place gifted with thick tropical rainforests, grasslands, tea plantations, hills, and a snow-peaked Rwenzori Mountains. The Western region includes game parks, Lakes, water bodies and game reserves. It takes two and half hour’s drive from Kampala to enter into the region.

Entebbe Airport is the major international airport available in Uganda for all major flights out and in Uganda. It is located 45km Southwest of Kampala city Uganda’s capital city.  There are 18 international airlines operating to and from Entebbe International Airport.  Elevated at 3782 feet above sea level, the airport is part of a peninsular bordering Africa’s biggest fresh-water lake, Victoria. Some of the airlines that fly to Uganda include Emirates airlines, Qatar Airways, Kenya Airways. SN Brussels, KLM Airlines, British Airways, Egypt Air, South African Airways, Turkish Airlines, Air Burundi, Air Tanzania, RwandAir, Precision air and others.  This means that visitors can easily access Uganda from any part of the world.