Less than 10 kilometers from Kampala is a large industrial park built by the Ugandan government, which not only gathers Fortune 500 companies such as Coca-Cola and Toyota, but also some Chinese companies, and there are nearly 100 companies that have already settled in the park, and when all the companies are completed and put into production and operation, it will be a big boost to the local industrial development and tax revenue.
Continuing out of the city to the east about 30 kilometers to the Mukono district, a Chinese enterprise-based industrial park built on the right side of the main road, covering the steel casting, mattresses, plastic products and other industries. This is one of the largest private companies in Uganda, which has been y involved in manufacturing, hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and other industries for many years, and occupies a pivotal position among Chinese companies.
Jinja, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Busoga (one of the four kingdoms restored in the 1990s), is about 90 kilometers from Kampala, Uganda's largest and most important industrial city, home to dozens of sugar companies, steel, beer and other factories. Passing through the town of Lugazi, you will be greeted by tea plantations, large and small hills with neatly planted tea gardens, both in the dry and rainy seasons, which are green and pleasing to the eye, but the tea gardens here are still planted on a small scale, which is nothing compared to the ones in Fort Poralt. Continuing on through a forest, there is another scene in front of us, with large sugarcane plantations spread out on hills of different sizes. Some plots of sugar cane has just been harvested, the ground scattered with a small number of dead sugar cane leaves; some plots have just been plowed, red soil makes people feel friendly; some fields planted new seedlings just half a foot high, a new green; some of the rod leaf green is the exuberant growth period, such as the green carpet of the general oil; some have already ripened, or occasionally between a few trees of white flowers... ...
Jinja and the nearby Kamuli district are the largest sugarcane-growing areas in Uganda, with tens of thousands of hectares under cultivation belonging to dozens of sugar manufacturing companies, large and small, most of which are basically Indian-owned. Every year, sugar produced in Uganda is not only supplied to the domestic market, but also exported to neighboring countries such as Kenya, Rwanda and South Sudan. Local consumption of cane sugar is huge, most people's sugar intake is over the limit, general breakfast will come to a cup of black tea, put two spoons of sugar is relatively small, I have seen the most of a cup of tea put 3,4 spoons of sugar. As a result of the larger export volume will also impact the market of the importing country's own enterprises, in 2015 the Kenyan government has introduced relevant policies to strictly control the price war of Uganda's cane sugar enterprises.
Jinja is not only an industrial city, tourism resources are also relatively rich, more famous is the source of the Nile River and the source of the Nile River rafting. Lake Victoria more than 60,000 square kilometers of water area, only in Jinja here there is an outlet, out of Jinja river called the White Nile, and originated in Ethiopia, the Blue Nile River in the Sudan after the confluence of the collectively referred to as the Nile River, flowing through seven countries, and finally in Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea, a total length of 6,853 kilometers, is the world's longest river.
After the dam (the Ugandan government built a dam here to stop the water of Lake Victoria, and built a power station here, but the scale is small, in the downstream Karuma by the construction of a large hydroelectric power plant by Sinohydro is in full swing in the construction of), in the front of the first roundabout turn right to enter the city direction, turn into the right side of a path to the head of the Nile River 2-3 kilometers. Geographic landmark site. There is an entrance fee of 17,000 shillings per car. Next to the parking lot is a small-scale golf course, in Uganda, no matter which place as long as the site is large enough, there will be a place to play golf, lawn like a carpet, greenery like a cover, the scenery is very beautiful, coupled with a few stubborn monkeys jumping during the period of a beautiful picture of man and nature in harmony with the oil came into being. Especially the beauty of the Victoria Lake District, the beauty of pure, clean, beautiful a little bit can not see the traces of Africa. Lake blue water ripples, the shore of the palm swaying, children playing on the grass, adults or lying or sitting, enjoy the gift of God, very comfortable!
Said to be the source attraction, but in fact it is a small one, consisting of a few souvenir stores, two or three restaurants, plus a few small fishing boats and small yachts. Spend 10-20 million shillings to rent a boat, in the lake around half to an hour, you can watch a variety of different waterfowl, monkeys and lizards along the lake, both a green kingfisher, but also like ducks like cormorant waterfowl, the most such birds are not afraid of the most people, some in the water cruising for food, some in the branches of the sunshine on the wings of their own, but also three or two in the bushes between the play, and also dragged the long tail on the surface of the water. long tails gliding across the surface of the water, their tails sweeping out a ripple across the water's surface. If you are lucky enough, you can also see the king of waterfowl, the fish eagle, with a black back and white belly, high up on the branches, swooping at high speeds when feeding, and basically never returning empty-handed, catching larger fish than other waterfowl.
The lake will also see three or two fishermen under the net or fishing, a lone boat, a silk line, sitting motionless for half a day, but also a landscape. At the confluence of the lake stood a sign of the source of the Nile, the boat can stop here to go on a small trestle bridge to take pictures. This small bridge should be built in early 2016, before the end of 2015 to take pictures have to take off their shoes and socks, wade into the lake to go, the smaller dare not.
Nile River Rafting, known as the world's first rafting, long mileage and high security rafting, rafting business in Jinjia operation is the best, tourists choose the most NileRiver Explorers Rafting and Nalubale Rafting, we chose the latter, the owner of the British young man, has been operating for 6,7 years. Regardless of which one you choose, the price is basically the same, 120 USD per person including a light lunch at noon, open beer, and if you are rafting in the afternoon, you will be provided with barbecue beer in the evening. The price is the same, 120 USD per person including lunch, beer and beer, and BBQ beer in the evening if you are rafting in the afternoon.
Before the rafting, the coach will communicate with the tourists involved in the rafting, informed of the relevant precautions, if you suffer from the relevant can not participate in stimulating the movement of the disease or take some of the contraindications before the line will advise not to participate in the rafting, quite professional. Rafting in the morning, the camp is also equipped with tea, coffee, fruit and bread, eaten by a truck with a raft, lifeboats to the launch destination.
Water rafting is divided into six levels, the first level represents a drop of one meter of water, six levels represent a drop of six meters, six levels is currently the most thrilling and exciting heights in the rafting industry. Here on the Nile River in Uganda, there are drop slopes from Grade I to Grade VI. The rafting is about 22 kilometers long, with five large drop rapids, big enough to easily upend an eight-person rubber boat. Take off your shoes and socks on shore, if you go rafting it's best to wear shorts and long sleeves, from experience no matter how much sunscreen you put on, no matter how resistant you are to the sun at the equator, your exposed parts will become shrimp color after 4-5 hours in the sun, no matter how resistant you are to the sun. After 3-5 days you'll shed a layer of skin like a snake, and when you take a shower it always feels like there are never-ending spaghetti noodles on your body that you can't scrub clean. After getting into the water the instructor will hand over some basic movements and commands during the rafting process, when to paddle hard, when to squat, when to abandon the pulp. And everyone needs to throw themselves into the river once, to practice by the raft turned over to buckle in the inside how to do, how to save themselves, how to collaborate to turn the raft again and how to re-enter the raft from the water and so on, the courage of the small in the practice has been scared and was tossed to the point of exhaustion. This is also the attitude of Westerners, serious and dedicated.
After the official start of the rafting, less than 500 meters to the first dangerous beach, the drop is not big, there is no danger. In the process of rafting total **** there are five such dangerous beaches, and in the rafting before the tourists can choose to turn over the boat and do not turn over two kinds of boats, but in the Nile River rafting does not turn over the boat, think about how to afford the 120 U.S. dollars. The highest level of Itanda Falls, this dangerous beach is the majority of tourists will not choose to float down, the drop of the largest place up to 3-4 meters, basically choose to hike over the waterfall, and then continue to go forward. There are individual tourists will choose to drift down, the coach will choose a smaller drop by the side of the bushes and down, if you prepare the place to choose to drift, the chances of capsizing is basically more than 80%, the small is to drink a few mouths of water, the big is to crack the leg sassafras skin.
Drifting at the same time, in the water surface of the gentle place you can appreciate the different beauty, a variety of water birds in the lake or bushes or prey or play, the heart of the lake on the various small islands in the trees, green around, and then with the blue water and blue sky, a beautiful picture in front of you, the island is also basically occupied by the animals and birds, the tree is the world of the birds, the ground is the kingdom of reptiles. The surface of the water will occasionally see a variety of mineral water bottles, when you first see it, you probably will not know, it is neither moving nor will not float away along the water, these are in fact the locals of a surprisingly lazy way of fishing. They want to catch the delicious, but do not want to wait for the fish hooked, so in the empty mineral water bottles tied to a silk thread and hook, put the bait, and then go back to see if there is a fish hooked, a little bit of Jiang Tai Gong fishing feeling.
Itanda waterfall, if you have time after rafting you can drive to see this waterfall, this is the current development of tourists can visit the source of the Nile River's largest waterfall. More than 40 kilometers away from the city of Jinjia, driving nearly 1 hour, the entrance fee of 50,000 shillings per person. After seeing this place you realize how big the water flow of the Nile is, worthy of being the world's longest river.
A netizen summarized: to go to Africa to go to Uganda, to go to Uganda to go to the Nile River, to go to the Nile River must be rafting, to go rafting to go to Jinja - Lake Victoria and the Nile River connection. Here the water quality is good, the water surface is wide, the water temperature is high, the water is deep and fast, there is no stone, drifting through here, to live up to the word rafting!
Mbale, about 230 kilometers from the capital city of Kampala, is also the main city in the eastern part of the city on a larger scale. The closer national park to the city is Elgon National Park, a park with Kenya*** that is dominated by western tourists and rarely visited by Chinese tourists. Near the city, an industrial park developed by a Chinese company, the Paradise Group, was in full swing when I left, and three years later, the industrial park should have begun to attract business.
Tororo, a border city with Kenya, is also a relatively important industrial city, where there is the largest inland port of entry, all the import and export of goods through the car import and export customs, located in the border advantage, the development of the other inland areas slightly better. It has the largest cement factory and the largest border crossing on land.
Other relatively large cities are: Soroti, Lira and so on
Tourist attractions in the east are: located in the northeast of the Kldepo Valley National Park, the park is an African savannah, where the animals are lions, zebras as the main large animals, but also antelopes, warthogs and other small animals. There are fewer tourists than Murchison and Elizabeth.
Used to seeing the domestic regardless of the size of the attractions of over-development, commercial flooding, you will be a little bit uncomfortable in any of the attractions in Uganda, organizers and managers are surprisingly few, you see are basically in the original undeveloped attractions, most of the scenic spots belong to the road only to do and to ensure that the basic conditions of food and shelter, and there is no excessive to build and packaging, every place is pristine, clean and pure! . Let tourists visit the process always maintain the human natural environment and wildlife world visitors this mentality, so that people fear nature, not because of human visits and disrupt the normal order of nature.