AN OVER VIEW OF RWANDA

Location of uganda's national parks

MOST OF UGANDA'S NATIONAL PARKS

Uganda's Accomodation establishments

TAL CottagesKampalaRubaga-Kabusu Road P.O.Box 71377 Tel:+256 41 073330lukwanzit@yahoo.comSunset Hotel Internatonal Jinja P.O.Box 156 Jinja Tel: +256 43 120115 +256 39 704765 +256 77 373991 Fax: +256 43 120741 sunset@utlonline.co.ug Hotel Africana Kampala plot 2/4 Wampewo Avenue,Tel:0414 348080,0752 348080 ,0772 348088 africana@hotelafricana.com Sheraton Kampala Hotel Kampala Ternan Avenue,Tel:0414 420000fax:0414 256696 saleskampala@sheraton.com www.sheraton.com Grand Imperial Hotel Kampala Nile Avenue.Tel:0414 272336 Fax:0414 250422 imperialhotels@utlonline.co.ug Imperial Botannical Beach HotelSpeke Hotel Kampala7/9 Nile Avenue.Tel:0414 235332/5,259221.Fax:0414 235345speke@spekehotel.comSemliki Safari Lodge Semliki Wildlife ReservePlot 14b Kyadondo Road Nakasero PO Box 23825 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 (0)41 251182 or +256 (0)77 489497 Fax: +256 (0)41 344653 info@wildplacesafrica.com Apoka Safari Lodge Kidepo Plot 14b Kyadondo Road Nakasero PO Box 23825 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 (0)41 251182 or +256 (0)77 489497 Fax: +256 (0)41 344653 info@wildplacesafrica.com The Emin Pasha Hotel Kampala27, Akii-Bua Road P.O.Box 23825 Tel: +256 41 236977/8/9 +256 31 264 712/3/4 Fax: +256 41 236231reservations@eminpaha.comhttp://www.eminpasha.comArra Fishing Lodge Adjumani P.O.Box 150 Tel: +256 75 2122601 +256 77 9754681 +256 77 374 560arra-fishing-lodge@hotmail.comAfrica Travel EmporiumKampala1st Floor Colline House Pilkington Road Tel:+256 31-2-280450 +256 71-2-846961 +256 77-2-527922info@hotelsinuganda.comwww.hotelsinuganda.com Mweya Safari Lodge Kasese Located in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Marasa Central Reservations
Pan Africa House
Shop 9 Ground Floor Kimathi Avenue
P.O.Box 22827
Ph: +256 (0) 31 2260260/1
+256 (0) 41 255992
Fax: +256 (0) 31 2260262
mweyaparaa@africaonline.co.ugwww.MweyaLodge.com Paraa Safari Lodge Masindi Located in Murchison Falls National Park

Marasa Central Reservations
Pan Africa House
Shop 9 Ground Floor Kimathi Avenue
P.O.Box 22827
Ph: +256 (0) 31 2260260/1
+256 (0) 41 255992
Fax: +256 (0) 31 2260262
mweyaparaa@africaonline.co.ug www.ParaaLodge.com Colline HotelMukono21 Kms on Jinja Road.Tel:0414 290240/251 031/290 533.Mob:0392 790212 colline@infocom.co.ug The Lake Victoria Hotel Entebbe Located 5 Kilometres from Entebbe International Airport .Tel:256-31-2310100.Fax:256-31-2- 310404info@ivhotel.co.ug or sales@Ivhotel.co.ugFang Fang Hotel KampalaPlot 9 Ssezibwa Road,Nakasero.Tel:256-414-235828.0414 344806.fangfang@africaonline.co.ugForest CottagesKampalaPlot 17/18 Old Kira Road,Kampala.Tel:256-312-261279.MOB:256-0772 847336info@forest-cottages.com Hotel Equatorial KampalaLocated on William Street.Tel:256-414-255500.imperialhotels@utlonline.co.ugRidar HotelSeetaLocated on Kampala-Jinja Highway.Tel:256-414-290697sales@ridarhotel.comwww.ridarhotel.comMunyonyo Commonwealth Resort limitedMunyonyoLocated in Munyonyo on the shores of Lake Victoria.Tel:256-414-227111 mob:+256-772-771701spekeresort@spekeresort.comwww.spekeresort.comSerena HotelKampala5 star hotel located in the heart of kampala.Tel:256-414-309000.Fax:256-41-259130kampala@serena.co.ugKabira Country ClubKampalaPlot 63 Old Kirra Road,Bukoto.Tel:256-312-227222/3/4/5 Fax:0312-227226kabiracountryclub@kabiracountryclub.comWhite Castle AruaAruaLocated at Ewuata,5 km Arua-Nebbi Road.Mob:256-772-880830,0772-384724,0774-048581info@whitecastlehotel.comAgip MotelMbararaLocated near the gates of Mbarara town.Tel:256-485 421615,0485422213.Fax:0485-420575agipmotel@utlonline.co.ugRwizi Arch HotelMbararaThe hotel provides a sophiscated and enchanting escape to western uganda.Tel:256-485-421173.Mob:0752 648980,0772684839rwizi-arch@africaonline.co.ugOxford InnMbararaBananuka Drive.Self contained rooms and stocked bar.Mob:0382-271737.0772 546538oxfordinn@spacenet.comLake View Regency HotelMbararaLocated on Fortportal road.Tel:256-0485-21397/8.Fax:0485 21399Mantana Luxury Tented Camp,Lake MburoLake Mburo National ParkTel:0414 320152.Mob:0772 401391Mbale Resort HotelMbaleLocated on Bungokho Road.Tel:256-454-433920,0454-433922sales@mbaleresort.orgMt Elgon Hotel LtdMbalePlot 30,Masaba Road.Mob:0772 680249.Tel:0454 433454info@mountelgonhotel.comWash & Willis Country Home LtdMbalePlot 27 Mbiro Road,Mbale.TEL:256-45-35264,77-2518675sales@wash&willis.com Hotel .Kidepo Guest House Ltd Entebbe Plot 4 Moroto Close, Kitoro P.O. Box 322kaspanta_222@kidepoguesthouse.com, kaspanta_222@ya

RWANDA REMOVES VISA FEES

RWANDA IN AN ATTENT TO PROMOTE BOTH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOURSM IT HAS REMOVED VISA FEES .
KIGALI, RWANDA - Rwanda has announced it has exonerated East African citizens from resident visa or work permit fees.
This, according to the Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration, started on March 9, 2009.
The changes were announced following a cabinet decision last month, which requested the directorate to deal with issues of visa and work permits on foreigners going to work or reside in Rwanda.
The directorate announced work permits fall under two categories: Category A for a foreigner whose monthly gross remuneration is Rwf500, 000 (US$ 881) and Category B for those whose monthly gross is below Rwf500, 000 ($ 881). The directorate said, for all other nationalities, resident visa fees will drop from Rwf200, 000 ($352) to Rwf50, 000 ($88) per year.
The annual work permit fees will change from Rwf200, 000 ($352) to Rwf50, 000($88) for category A and Rwf10, 000 ($17.63) for Category B.

MUNYONYO IS COMING UP AS ANOTHER TOURISM SPOT NEXT TO NAMUGONGO MARTYRS SHRINE

MYNYONYO IS COMING UP AS ANOTHER TOURISM SPOT NEXT TO NAMUGONGO MARTYRS SHRINE .
On every 3rd June Uganda celebrate the normally known as Martyrs Day in the East African region. As arememberance to the previous mascre /exetution of the matyrs who felt rebellious to the king of buganda kabaka Mwanga who following the introduction og Christianity in Buganda.
Other than the popular Namugongo Catholic and Protestant Martyrs shrines, and later may be St. Balikuddembe (Owino) Market, one neglected or less talked about place is Munyonyo.
The first culprits of Kabaka Mwanga's rage were Andrew Kaggwa and Denis Sebugwawo just on the outskirts of Mwanga's Munyonyo Palace. And there is no better way to introduce Munyonyo as a place of religious rebellion or rather martyrdom and therefore, it is crying for attention so that religious pilgrims can come and experience the feel of the beginning of the road to martyrdom.
Munyonyo is home to Denis Sebugwawo's shrine that has been gazetted by Gaba Catholic Parish as an open church. Every Sunday, mass is said at this open church near Boutique Hotel while Andrew Kaggwa's shrine which has a church that can sit not more than 20 people, rubs shoulders with The Royal Impala Hotel.
Other than Munyonyo being a posh residential place, it is here that the martyrdom (1885-87) marked the beginning of the end of Mwanga's rule and his subsequent exile to the Seychelles. For this, Munyonyo is beckoning for attention as a religious and cultural heritage tourism destination centre. And the well tended Andrew Kaggwa's shrine that seats on a five-acre piece of land is ideal for picnics, while the Mulungu landing site is out there calling for attention.
Hotels are springing up for one to partake of this religious and cultural heritage of Uganda and, other than the famous Munyonyo Speke Resort Hotel; the area is dotted with other pocket friendly, tranquil tropical hotels where 'the sound of silence' can be heard. This sound is the massive Lake Victoria waters hitting the shores, crickets chirping away, birds singing and trees inviting the sweet winds.
Munyonyo has a potential of becoming a commercially viable religious, political, cultural tourist destination where pilgrims will be fascinated by the gaiety of this inviting place. But it can only provide that invitation if the seeds of religious, political and cultural tourism are sown and nurtured beyond Namugongo shrines by both the church, the kingship and Bulange, the seat of Buganda Kingdom.
According to Godfrey Walusimbi, who loiters around Munyonyo landing site and who claims to be possessed by the ancestral spirits of Buganda, the whole idea of 'murdering' the martyrs was hatched at the Munyonyo palace.
This is confirmed by an elder who does not feel comfortable to be revealed in the press, that Munyonyo is home to two important Catholic martyrs: Andrew Kaggwa and Denis Sebugwawo.
The elder says these were pages of King Mwanga II at the Munyonyo palace which is currently home to Prince Walugembe. The king had called for a conference of his people regarding his pages' rebellion and what could be done to stop their fanaticism.
The name Munyonyo is derived from the Luganda word 'okunnyonyola' meaning to expound, to educate, inform, or to enlighten. The king would call a conference of his people to Munyonyo to discuss or explain a given happening.
During the religious wars and the kingship of Mwanga II, the British administration would intervene and exile Mwanga to Bulingugwe Island which is just a kilometre from the landing site of Mulungu.
Mulungu itself has its various connotations. It derives its name from 'okulungamya' or 'okumulungula ensonga' meaning, to make clear or to clear some air over a given matter or issue within the kingdom.
This landing site is where Arabs penetrated the hinterland of Buganda from Karagwe in Tanzania. And they would always say: 'Tumefika Salaama' meaning we have arrived safely and they would meet King Mwanga at Munyonyo Palace. That is also how a whole village just outside Munyonyo is called Salaama.
Arabs convinced Mwanga to become a Moslem from Munyonyo Palace. The Christians later met Mwanga at Munyonyo and convinced him to change religion and become a Christian. However, interestingly, Mwanga kept his shrine for the spirit of Nalongo Nagadya at Mulungu.
Mulungu is the very point through which Mwanga wanted to have a canal linking Bulange Palace and Munyonyo Palace. This was the reason the Kabaka's lake was dug so that the canal could go through the Kibuye artisan town and Salaama and drop in at Mulungu on Lake Victoria.
The king loved the canoe sport and wanted to have canoe rides from Bulange to Munyonyo and hold clan canoe competitions from Bulange to Munyonyo. Every year, the Baganda under the kingship of Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II hold canoe competitions at Mulungu.
Munyonyo, therefore, was not only a place of discussing issues pertaining in the kingdom but also the beginning of hatching the plan to finish off all those who had rebelled against the king for the sake of foreign religions.