Entebbe City Tour Overview
The Entebbe City Tour is an all exclusive VIP tour that exposes you to the hidden gems of the once colonial capital of the Imperial British East African Company-Uganda. Entebbe Town is the first town that welcomes any visitor to Uganda from the Entebbe International Airport. Being a quiet town cooled by breezes from Lake Victoria and lake side beaches, the area is an exquisite gate away from the urban hustle for a wellness and adventure vacation.
The Town is dotted with multiple lake side beaches, small stone islands, primate forests, bird havens, out-door sporting facilities like Entebbe Golf course, Chimpanzee sanctuary, botanical garden, glamping and camping sites, luxury and budget hotels that have beautiful views of the night skyline, white sand palm tree beaches as well as its gastronomy icon of fresh tilapia stalls on major marketplaces and lake side fish markets. Thus, Entebbe City tour is an all-inclusive historical, cultural, adventure and eco-tourism destination for local and international visitors.
City Day Life Trips to Art and handcrafts markets: Entebbe city is home to a variety of designated Art and handcrafted markets within the different locations of the upper town. Make a guided trip to fair trade craft markets located adjacent to Victoria Mall, Entebbe Craft Center on Movement Road, Entebbe Juakali Center on Goa’s Road. The others are Nubian craft markets in Katabi and Nkumba village. Your Entebbe City Tour guide will take you to these Art and handcrafts market villages within Old Entebbe town for craft souvenir’s. Urban Night Life: Later on, an evening trip can be finalized with an Entebbe urban night life and dance your way to both local music and international tunes at either Street wise Club, the Terrace Bar or Knight Riders Discotheque.
Makusa Island: Take a 20 minutes boat cruise to this small island and you will get back on your boat simultaneously humbled and exhilarated and for a long time afterwards your thoughts go back there and you want to return. We do arrange day and camping trips to this small island. The cost for two people for two hours around sunset, including getting onto another island nearby that is uninhabited but has an “Equator” sign is $120. You could probably get it cheaper, but after visiting Makusa you’ll probably think this good value. You will also need to give a small sum to the leader of the fishing community on Makusa Island as a thank you for letting you take photos and videos.
Water Sport Tours: As a recreational club, the Entebbe Sailing Club does not seek publicity nor draw attention to itself and the club as well as its individual members have always been involved with various local community activities. During an Entebbe City Tour trip, take part in a Water sports activity at Entebbe Sailing Club. The club fosters the use of sail boats and trains learners on how to handle these safely and competently. At the Entebbe Sailing Club whilst the pure sailing experience is the principal attraction, for most visitors it is to master the sail boat under the given conditions through nature powered by the “Wind”.
Sport Fishing Tours
Entebbe is an ideal fishing trip destination. The fact that the coastal town is surrounded by Lake Victoria fresh waters, there is great opportunity for sport fishing within the city’s lake side shores. Most popular activity is the Nile Perch sport Fishing on Lake Victoria in Entebbe and there are also a variety of other fish species one can catch. These may include; catfish of over 50kg, Tiger fish, Ngara, ferocious fighter and barbel. Nile Perch is the most common fish type caught weighing between 8-70 kg in weight and trolling with lures is the main method of fishing used. Sport fishing in Entebbe is suitable all year round with including the April/May rainy season.
Boat Rides/ Sun Set Cruises
On a selected evening, a motor boat cruise may be arranged upon request for an evening sundowner-sun set cruise starting from 6:00-7:30 Pm at Nakiwogo Ferry Landing site historically known as Port Alice and the trip guide shall lead you back your booked facility. This boat trip will take you to the Equator crossing line monument on Mbiru stone Island on Lake Victoria.
Beach life and Scuba Diving
Escape the urban heat for a day or weekend of relaxation around the white sandy Entebbe City Beaches. Enjoy sun bathing on the sun beach desk at prime lake side beaches, go lake diving in the Victoria fresh waters with a guided deep-end lake scuba diving session adjacent to Protea Hotel. Bring your own scuba diving equipment alternatively you may make use of the boat’s equipment which is available to hire in Entebbe (advanced booking is required).
Nature Walks
Entebbe city is home to Uganda’s only Botanical garden’s that is home to a variety of flora and fauna that was planted here for research and multiplication purposes. A walking or Bike trek to Entebbe Botanical Garden’s a habitant for Colobus monkey’s and variety of Bird species. At the gardens you will be engaged in nature walks, forest birding, exotic fauna views and marine birding.
Take a Nature walk to the Uganda Wildlife Education Center for game photographic treks in Uganda’s only ZOO. At this site you shall witness Entebbe’s prime conservation and wildlife education spot for animals and bird species representing Uganda gazetted in a semi natural habitation. Look out for the Big Five game species at the ZOO, Rothschild Giraffe, Lions, Buffaloes, Crocodiles, Antelopes, Hippos, Rhinos, Snakes, rare Shoebill Bird, variety of native bird species and numerous primates like Chimpanzee and forest monkeys. Most of these animals were rescued from accidents or poachers and others brought there for educational purposes. At UWEC, there is possibility of a visitor (on booking) to participate in the day-to-day conservation work-behind scenes with the zoo staff/volunteers. During this activity, you are introduced to the wildlife feeding systems, their habituation lifestyle and species conservation initiatives done by the zoo management.
Chimp Trekking at Ngamba Island
A scheduled visit to Ngamba Island through pre-arranged boat rides, will introduce you to this unique Chimpanzee habituation site and conservation work by Chimpanzee Trust under the auspices of Jane Goodall Institute in Entebbe.
Birding
Entebbe city is naturally designed as a botanical-forest city giving habitat to numerous bird species. The town offers good birding opportunity especially for water birds with a good mix of land species. For visiting birdwatchers set to explore Uganda on a birding trip, the Entebbe Peninsula is one you cannot overlook. The city is home to prime birding and IBA sites worth a visit during an Entebbe City Tour Lake Victoria, Lutembe Migratory Birding Ramsar Wetland, and the Nsirwe bird watching sanctuary in the Ssese Islands. But even for a quick birding tour, say for a half or full day, the Entebbe Peninsula is one of the recommended spots that are easily accessible from the capital Kampala.
