A Place Where a King Who Never Surrendered Still Keeps a Living Wife Before you're allowed near the tomb of Omukama Kabalega at Mparo, the caretakers ask you a question most visitors don't expect: did you have an extramarital affair ...[ read more ]
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Best Uganda Safari Packages 2026: How to Choose One
Uganda safari packages range from a $280 two-day Jinja adventure trip to $4,000+ multi-country gorilla and wildlife circuits — and the "best" package isn't the most expensive one, it's the one that matches your priorities, timeline, and budget. This guide ...[ read more ]
Igongo Cultural Centre: The Day an Eclipse Decided a War
In the year 1520, according to Ankole oral history, a Bunyoro army swept into Ankole territory near modern-day Mbarara, raiding cattle and villages as it went. Then, in the middle of the day, the sky went dark. A solar eclipse ...[ read more ]
Independence Monument: A Nation Unbound, A Future Reclaimed
On October 8, 1962, one day before Uganda formally became independent, Prime Minister-designate Milton Obote stood in front of a crowd of officials and cameras to unveil the country's brand-new Independence Monument. He pulled the cord. The reef-knot holding the ...[ read more ]
Amabere Ga Nyinamwiru: Myth, Mist & Breasts of Nyinamwiru
A king hears a prophecy that his own daughter will one day give birth to the son who overthrows him. Rather than accept fate, he mutilates her, imprisons her in a cave, and waits for the threat to die out. ...[ read more ]
Uganda Safari Guide 2026: Parks, Costs & How to Plan
Planning a Uganda safari means choosing between more than a dozen national parks, several very different trip styles, and a wide range of budgets — from a $750 three-day wildlife safari to a $4,200 multi-country gorilla trekking adventure. This guide ...[ read more ]
Why August Is Uganda’s Busiest Safari Month — Book Now
If you're planning a Uganda safari in August, you're not alone — it's the single busiest month on the safari calendar. That's good news for the quality of your trip and bad news for how much room is left to ...[ read more ]
Walumbe Tanda Pits: Step into Buganda’s Ancient Myth.
In a shaded forest clearing near Tanda village, about 65 kilometers west of Kampala in Mityana District, the ground is pockmarked with more than 240 circular pits — some shallow, some plunging deep enough to disappear into darkness. To geologists, ...[ read more ]
The Baha’i Temple:Where All Faiths Gather as One.
Somewhere on Kikaaya Hill, buried in the ground beneath a white domed temple overlooking Kampala, is a handful of soil carried from a prison fortress in northern Iran and from the innermost shrine of a 19th-century Persian prophet. It was ...[ read more ]
Rubaga Cathedral: From Royal Guilt to Sacred Ground
There's a quiet irony sitting atop one of Kampala's seven hills that most visitors never hear about. Rubaga Cathedral — Uganda's oldest Roman Catholic cathedral and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Kampala — stands on land donated by ...[ read more ]