Travel planning
Accessible Travel in Uganda
A boat on the Kazinga Channel is among the most rewarding hours in the whole country, and one of the very few that asks nothing at all of your legs.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Uganda: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Uganda and Diaspora Reconnection
Uganda is far more significant as a country people arrive in than as one they left, and that changes what a reconnection visit means.
Events and Festivals
Uganda Festivals and Celebrations
A calendar of kingdoms, pilgrimage and one of the continent's best known music festivals, currently under public health restrictions.
Culture
Uganda Culture and Etiquette Guide
A republic containing kingdoms, a cloth made from bark, and several rules of dress and speech that carry criminal penalties.
Food
Uganda Food Guide
A steamed green banana that counts as the national dish, and a chapati wrapped around eggs that counts as the national snack.
Travel planning
Uganda Travel Safety Guide
Attacks have reached national parks and tourists, an Ebola outbreak has reached Kampala, and one law carries the death penalty.
Travel planning
Getting Around Uganda
Boda bodas everywhere, long distances on mixed roads, and one Saturday morning each month when non-essential movement is prohibited nationwide.
Travel planning
Uganda Packing List
One clothing rule in Uganda carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and it applies to children as well as adults.
Travel planning
Uganda Currency and Money Guide
The Ugandan shilling, a mobile money system that runs the country, and another government advisory with no money page at all.
Travel planning
Uganda Visa and Entry Requirements
No visa on arrival, a yellow fever certificate that is genuinely compulsory, and one regional visa that covers three countries at once.