The Uganda Travel Planner includes information on Uganda's National Parks, Protected Areas, Conservation Areas, Community tourism projects, accommodation, getting there and away plus much more. Don't leave home without having browsed this site in detail. This is your essential travel survival kit to Uganda and probably the most comprehensive free country specific travel guide on the Internet continually being researched and updated.
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MV KALANGALA NOT BACK IN SERVICE BEFORE 2011
The latest information obtained from the Ministry of Works and Transport about the hugely important lake ferry connecting Entebbe with the Ssese Islands, is that it will now take till new year before the vessel can return to service.
NEWS FROM BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST
The Uganda Wildlife Authority has released details about the birth of two gorilla babies born in December 2010 into the Kyaguriro group. This group is a research group not visited by tourists. The groups home range is within the Ruhija sector of the national park.
It was also reported in the same release that two ‘wild’ adult gorillas and an infant had recently joined up with the same group.
FRIEND A GORILLA WEBSITE LAUNCHED SEPTEMBER 26TH 2009
In conjunction with the celebrations to mark the official opening of Uganda's latest group of mountain gorillas a new website launched with Facebook integration to allow individuals to sponsor as 'Friends' gorillas across the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. More at www.friendagorilla.org.