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Best places to visit in Uganda
Budget Hotels In Kampala Uganda - #1
I look at 2 budget hotels in Kampala: Hotel Kenrock & Tiptone Hotel in the Muyenga area.
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Mbarara, beautiful city in Uganda, important transport hub, industry, and infrastructure
Mbarara is a town in the Western Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Mbarara District and the site of the district headquarters.Mbarara is about 290 kilometres (180 mi), by road, southwest of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.[3] Mbarara is an important transport hub, lying west of Masaka on the road to Kabale, near Lake Mburo National Park. The coordinates of the Mbarara central business district are 00 36 48S, 30 39 30E (Latitude:-0.6132; Longitude:30.6582).[4]
Population[edit]
In 2002, the national census estimated the population of the town at 69,400. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the population at 82,000 in 2010. In 2011, UBOS estimated the mid-year population at 83,700.[5] In August 2014, the national population census put the population at 195,013.[1]
History[edit]
MBARARA GENESIS Early Travellers in Ankole and the Founding of Mbarara by an African, Asian and European Initiative. by David Weekes, (2014) ISBN 9780956550149 describes its founding in 1899 on an old royal site which had been abandoned.
Growth and expansion[edit]
Mbarara came from behind and developed to surpass Entebbe, Masaka, Gulu, and Jinja as the second-largest town in Uganda after Kampala and also second to Kampala in importance, industry, and infrastructure,[6] 3rd largest town in Uganda by population after Kampala and Kira and the fastest growing town in Uganda followed by Gulu.
Starting with 2000, modern buildings have been established including malls, arcades, plaza, and hotels. Modern hospitals have also been constructed including Mbarara Hospital, which is now a National Referral Hospital, Mbarara Community Hospital a private hospital located in Kyamugorani, Kakiika Division,[7] and Mayanja Memorial Hospital located in Nyamityobora Kakoba Division.[8]
On 7 August 2015 the Uganda cabinet approved Mbarara Municipality alongside other 5 municipalities to be [permanent dead link] granted a city status. As of 14 August 2015, the town is waiting for the approval of the parliament and the President.
Infrastructure[edit]
Mbarara is the home of Mbarara University of Science & Technology (MUST), founded in 1989.
With significance for all Ugandan cities, Mbarara was the host to the 2004 Annual General Meeting of the Uganda Local Governments Association on 1 October, which saw the changing of the organisation to its current structure in order to represent all Ugandan local governments. Mbarara remains an active member of this governmental association.[9]
Finance[edit]
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The following financial institutions maintain branches in Mbarara:
Bank of Uganda
National Social Security Fund (Uganda)
Mbarara Bypass Road[edit]
Main article: Mbarara Northern bypass road
The following additional points of interest lie within the city limits or close to its edges:
Administration[edit]
headquarters of Mbarara District Administration
offices of Mbarara Municipal Council
Industry[edit]
Mbarara Brewery - A subsidiary of SABMiller; to be built at a cost of US$80 million.[11][12]
Mbarara Steel Plant - Owned and operated by the China Machine Building International Corporation (CMIC), a Chinese Government parastal company[13]
Social services[edit]
Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital - A 600-bed, public hospital, administered by the Uganda Ministry of Health. The teaching hospital of Mbarara University School of Medicine
Mbarara Community Hospital - A private hospital that serves the community without regard to ability to pay.[14]
Mayanja Memorial Hospital - A private 100-bed hospital[15]
Holy Innocents Children's Hospital - A private 100-bed general pediatric hospital, administered by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbarara
Education[edit]
Mbarara University of Science and Technology - One of the six public universities in Uganda.
Uganda Bible Institute.[16]
The Mbarara Campus of Uganda Martyrs University.
The Western Campus of Uganda Management Institute
Bishop Stuart University - A private Christian University, affiliated with the Church of Uganda
Ntare School - A boys-only, boarding middle and high school
Mbarara High School - A residential boys-only middle and high school
Maryhill High School-A girls-only,boarding middle and high school founded by the Daughters of Mary and government aided
Transport[edit]
Mbarara Airport - A public airport, located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi), by road northwest of town
Mbarara Bypass Road - A 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) bypass road, currently under construction, circling the northern half of the city.
See also
Downtown Kampala, Uganda To Entebbe International Airport (EBB)
Travel from downtown Kampala to the airport in Entebbe. Along the way I talk about visas, Uber & hotels in Kampala.
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Kampala, beautiful city in Uganda, best city to live in East Africa, Business and Industrial Park,
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local plannin ,Kampala hotelCentral Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Rubaga Division. Surrounding Kampala is the rapidly growing Wakiso District, whose population more than doubled between 2002 and 2014 and now stands at over 2 million.[2]
Kampala was named the 13th fastest growing city on the planet, with an annual population growth rate of 4.03 percent,[3] by City Mayors. Kampala has been ranked the best city to live in East Africa[4] ahead of Nairobi and Kigali by Mercer, a global development consulting agency based in New York City.Economy and infrastructure[edit]
Efforts are underway to relocate heavy industry to the Kampala Business and Industrial Park, located in Namanve, Mukono District, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) east of the city's central business district,[27] thereby cutting down on city traffic congestion. Some of the businesses that maintain their headquarters in the city center include all of the 25 commercial banks licensed in Uganda; the New Vision Group, the leading news media conglomerate and majority owned by the government; and the Daily Monitor publication, a member of the Kenya-based Nation Media Group. Air Uganda maintained its headquarters in an office complex on Kololo Hill in Kampala.[28] Crown Beverages Limited, the sole Pepsi-Cola franchise bottler in the country, is situated in Nakawa, a division of Kampala, about 5 kilometres (3 mi), east of the city centre.[29]
The informal sector is a large contributor to Kampala's GDP. Citizens who work in the formal sector also participate in informal activities to earn more income for their families. A public servant in Kampala, for example, may engage in aviculture in addition to working in the formal sector. Other informal fields include owning taxis and urban agriculture. The use of Kampala's wetlands for urban farming has increased over the past few decades. It connects the informal rural settlements with the more industrialized parts of the city. The produce grown in the wetlands is sold in markets in the urban areas.[30]
In December 2015, Google launched its first wi-fi network in Kampala.[31]
Transport[edit]
Uganda House, Kampala Road, Kampala
Kampala is served by Entebbe International Airport, which is the largest airport in Uganda.
Boda-bodas (local motorbike transport) are a popular mode of transport that gives access to many areas within and outside the city. Standard fees for these range from USh:1,000 to 2,000 or more. Boda-bodas are useful for passing through rush-hour traffic, although many are poorly maintained and dangerous.[32]
In early 2007, it was announced that Kampala would remove commuter taxis from its streets and replace them with a comprehensive city bus service. (In Kampala, the term taxi refers to a 15-seater minibus used as public transport.) The bus service was expected to cover the greater Kampala metropolitan area including Mukono, Mpigi, Bombo, Entebbe, Wakiso and Gayaza. As of December 2011 the service had not yet started.[33] Having successfully completed the Northern Bypass, the government, in collaboration with its stakeholders, now plans to introduce the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Kampala by 2014. On 12 March 2012, Pioneer Easy Bus Company, a private transport company, started public bus service in Kampala with an estimated 100 buses each with a 60-passenger capacity (30 seated and 30 standing), acquired from China. Another 422 buses were expected in the country in 2012 to complement the current fleet. The buses operate 24 hours daily. The company has a concession to provide public transport in the city for the next five years.[34][35] The buses were impounded for back taxes in December 2013. The company expected to resume operation in February 2015.[36]
In 2014, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and a China transportation company signed a Memorandum of Understanding, that they would at some point begin embarking on building a light rail system in Kampala, similar to the one recently completed in er rail service between Namanve and Kampala and between Kampala and Kyengera. Those services were temporarily discontinued after RVR lost its concession in Uganda in October 2017.[40] However, when Uganda Railways Corporation took over the operations of the metre gauge railway system in Uganda in 2018, the service was restored in February that year.[41] A new Kampala to Port Bell route is being planned, to be added in the 2018/2019 financial year.[40]
See also
Uganda - with Link Bus from Kampala via Fort Portal to Kasese (370 km in 7 hours)
370 km in 7 hours: with Link Bus from Kampala via Mubende and Fort Portal to Kasese - impressions, street views, landscape
Easter Sunday 2018 At Bamburi Beach Mombasa
A day at Bamburi beach in Mombasa, Kenya. Early morning is low tide and deserted. Around 2pm things get busy very quickly.
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Kavumba Recreation Center
Kavumba Recreation Center
Room with View Lake Victoria View Entebbe Uganda
This video is clearly showing what Africa and the lake Victoria can offer to the world.
I was staying at this Hotel close to the International Airport at Entebbe.
Munyonyo Commonwelth Resort, Uganda, By Dr. Sudhir Ruparellia HD 720p
Munyanyo Commonwealth Resort in Kampala, Uganda, . By Sudhir Ruparellia.
Paradise on earth, suitable for honeymoon, weddings, tourist. Best destination on Lake Victoria.