Uganda Safaris News: Mountain Gorilla Trekking Tours, Wildlife Safari, Primates Tour

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Safari Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda.
Uganda’s main attraction is the endangered mountain gorilla which is said to share 98.4% of its genes with human beings. Out of the estimated 720 mountain gorillas left in the world, 340 of them are found in the jungles of Bwindi Forest National Park which is also believed […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Safari Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda.
Kenya’s tourism sector has found new efforts for its marketing campaigns for the Chinese and Eastern markets to butter up the western markets for tourism.
This follows a noteworthy increase in the number of Chinese tourists interested in visiting Kenya regardless of the country being one of the youngest in […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Safari Guide Reporter
Kampala, Uganda
If people are honest, they will admit that the first thing that comes to mind when they talk about tourism, is animals. Tourism however goes beyond the flora and fauna to larger aspects of life and society.
It includes Cultural, Archeological, Agritourism, Sports, Sex tourism among others. Medical tourism […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah,
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter
Kampala, Uganda
Rwanda once again emerged the best African exhibitor in the just accomplished annually world’s biggest tourism fair held in Berlin, Germany. The tourism fair which was held for five days from March 5th to March 9th , attracted over 11,000 exhibitors from 186 countries, among them 36 African […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda
The addition of Boeing 787 Dream liner to the Ethiopian airline navy has been postponed by the manufacturers who have repeatedly delayed its arrival.
Ms Regassa Ermajachew, Ethiopian Airlines Uganda area manager says the airline will arrive in 2009, a year later than estimated.
Upon completion, the 787-8 Dream liner […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda
Brussels Airlines has a reason to pop the champagne bottle after carrying its fifth millionth customer last month in less than a year after taking to the skies as a new brand.
The Belgian carrier took to the skies on Sunday, March 25 last year following the merger of […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda
Kenya’s tourism industry continues to lose millions of shillings every day as a result of few park visitation occasioned by the post poll conflict. The situation has not been helped because of the negative perception by tourists over the security while in the country. The Kenyan national parks daily […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda
A broad carpet of algae has covered Uganda’s largest lake - Lake Victoria’s Murchison Bay and has caused a bad stench in Luzira, Ggaba and Munyonyo making the major fishing zones not viable. The algae mass, which looks like green paint on the lake surface, is a result […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter
Kampala Uganda
The Ugandan Parliament approved a new tourism law, which is seen by the tourism industry observers as an important breakthrough following years of waiting for the to be passed.
The new law is hoped to overhaul the country’s tourism industry and promote the tourism sector’s security and […]

[Read more →]

By Nakiboneka Halimah
Uganda Travel Guide Reporter,
Kampala
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Uganda has described the country’s latest competitor into air travel as a very promising operator.
Air Uganda started its operations out of Entebbe International Airport as its base in November last year but the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) funded the airline and […]

[Read more →]