The Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) is the zoo of Entebbe, Uganda´s former capital about 40 kilometres from Kampala on a peninsula at Lake Victoria. Entebbe is the home of Uganda´s international airport, where Israeli military started “Operation Entebbe” in 1976 to end the hijacking of an Air France airplane by Palestinians and German RAF […]
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Entebbe
The former colonial capital of Uganda, Entebbe, is situated only few kilometres north of the equator at the shore of Lake Victoria. It is still a significant town, with more than 70.000 residents, the only international airport in the country as well as its port for serving the islands of the Ssese archipelago and for […]
Kampala
Five years after our first visit to Uganda and its capital, we finally revisited Kampala in July – twice. Of course, it´s a characteristic African capital, which means that it has got a modern town centre as well as sheds, huts and slums as far as the eye can see – for probably close to […]
Uganda
In 2012, we toured Uganda for the first time, Winston Churchills so-called „Pearl of Africa“. For me personally, this has been my first travel in Africa, and we only picked Uganda because of Joseph Kony, the LRA (Lord´s Resistance Army) and those complete morons from “Invisible Children”. That campaign was well-meaning and aimed at capturing […]
Likoma Island
The landscape of Likoma is even more characterized by baobab trees than the one of Chizumulu, stretching their bony fingers towards the sky everywhere. The island is completely deforested, except for the far north. Besides the baobabs, there are only few patches of bush or trees left on the hills of Likoma that become flatter […]
Chizumulu Island
One can hardly make up a more heavenly place than the Robinson-island of Chizumulu with its approximately 3.000 infinitely friendly, curious, and joyful inhabitants you get to meet inevitably while visiting the island. You get the chance to see behind the curtain of their quotidian lives in an immediate way, and this life is almost […]
Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve
Nkhotakota WR is located on the slopes from the central highland down to the lake at the bottom of the Rift Valley, and it is the oldest reserve in Malawi. The landscape is characterized by dense bushland and montane forest, often Miombo, with many rivers flowing down the escarpment to the lake. There are countless […]
At the beach in Nkhotakota – Am Strand von Nkhotakota
It feels just like being at the ocean standing at the shore of Lake Malawi. Besides Malawi, parts of the lake belong to Tanzania and Mozambique, but by far the largest piece belongs to the tiny southeast African country. Motorboats are rare on the lake, but innumerable dugout canoes as well as Dhows, traditional fishing […]
Lilongwe – The world´s largest Tobacco Auction House – Im weltgrößten Tabak-Auktionshaus
The world´s largest Tobacco Auction House is part of the Auction Holdings Limited, a group of companies offering the Malawian tobacco farmers a strictly limited and regulated trade platform for their tobacco. All the Malawian tobacco harvest goes to the auction house after drying, being sold in the few weeks of harvest. Either the farmer […]
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