Travel to Kampala

an historical royal hunting area

Located around 20 km north of Lake Victoria, Kampala is the capital of Uganda and the largest city in the country, with a population of around two million people.

Before the British colonial period, the area was a hunting area reserved for the ruler of the country, particularly known for its population of impalas, hence the name.

The modern city is a sprawling urbanisation, with the usual chaotic transport and commerce. It is not an uninteresting place, but it is also not somewhere that tends to feature very often in safari trips.

Kampala is easily reached by road from the main international airport at Entebbe, which lies on the lakeshore, less than an hour to the south.

The city also lies on the main highway from Kenya in the east to the Rift Valley in the west.

far more common to stopover in nearby Entebbe