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Entries from August 2009

TRANSPORT FARES TO KALANGALA SHOOT UP

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safaris and Travel Guide News Kampala Uganda       The transport costs from Entebbe to Kalangala Islands have doubled after Uganda’s only active vessel on Lake Victoria, MV Kalangala, temporarily suspended operations to pave way for its inspection. The vessel’s insurance had expired creating fear among users about their safety. [...]

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DRAMA AS PILOT CRASH LANDS PLANE ON BUSY MASAKA ROAD

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

 By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safaris and Travel News Reporter Kampala Uganda   Cessna aircraft, registration 5X-WTA, reportedly flying from the southwestern Kisoro town to Kampala that apparently developed unspecified problems mid-air, forcing the pilot to contrive an emergency landing on the usually busy Masaka motorway.   With no airstrip in their midst, people in the [...]

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MV KALANGALA INSURANCE COVER EXPIRES, OPERATION HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safaris and Travel Guide News Reporter Kampala Uganda     Uganda’s only active vessel on Lake Victoria –MV Kalangala has temporarily suspended operations to pave way for its inspection. This appalling information emerged yesterday that the vessel’s insurance had expired creating fears among users about their safety.   MV Kalangala vessel  [...]

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UGANDA NATIONAL PARKS RECEIVE 70,000 VISITORS

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safaris and Travel guide News Reporter Kampala Uganda   About 70,000 tourists have visited Uganda‘s national parks and game reserves in the first four months of 2009.   This has been revealed by Geofrey Masaba, the Business Development Manager of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) in Kampala last week. Masaba said [...]

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HIPPOS HAVE MIGRATED TO MUNYONYO IN KAMPALA

August 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safaris and Travel Guide News Reporter Kampala Uganda   A school of hippos has been found at Munyonyo in Kampala where it got its new home. They have become a regular spectacle at the shores of Lake Victoria at Speke Resort, Munyonyo.   According to the local fishermen, there are three hippos, [...]

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